Marrons Glace Puree

[ShinyMe]

Has anyone seen it in actual shops recently please? I really really REALLY want some very soon. I can see some on Amazon, but ideally I'd like to buy some tomorrow (or yesterday, so I can have some RIGHT NOW) if at all possible.

You can make sweetened chestnut puree with the merchant gourmet pouch and blending it with icing sugar.

Why would you make marrons glacees into a puree? Once they have been boiled in sugar syrup they will be hard to break down into a smooth puree

I bought the MG pouch in Waitrose - I think I added 50g of icing sugar to it to make it up to the weight of a Clement faugier tin. I was adding it to a cake that had other sugars in it, but if you're doing something where it's more fundamental I'm sure you could just taste a bit.

Oooh, I hadn't thought of adding sugar to the puree you can get! I will have to try it.

@maslinpan you've never had it? OMG it's amazing. I love it just slathered over white bread and butter, but you can use it in cakes and stuff. I haven't had it in years but got a sudden craving this week.
www.amazon.co.uk/Clement-Faugier-Creme-Marrons-Chestnut/dp/B0036APDOO?tag=mumsnetforu03-21 < it's this stuff. I worked in France one summer when I was a teenager and used to buy tubes of it, which one could just suck straight from the tube. Um... not that I did that, obvs.

That is marron purée, looks lovely, but it's not marrons glacees. I made marrons glacees one year, which took a while, so I couldn't get why you would then want to break them down into a purée.

Ok, sorry! I've always known it as marrons glace puree, that's certainly how we referred to it in France, to distinguish it from the non sweetened puree. It's the sweetened spread that I'm looking for, but I'll try adding icing sugar to the standard puree.

Just popping in to say that Mont Blanc ice cream (vanilla with sweet chestnut purée swirled through) is the absolute mutts nuts.

On the merchant gourmet website there's a recipe with maple syrup as the sweetener. I bet golden syrup would also work, and might make it more spreadable?