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Walnut butter cake with ground walnut in rich and buttery cake. If you love walnut, you'll love this amazing walnut butter cake recipe. So delicious!
Walnut Butter Cake Recipe
Two of the most popular baking recipes on Rasa Malaysia are butter cake and brownie butter cake.
I am always excited to try new butter cake recipes.
I like simple cakes, plain old rich, buttery, sweet cakes that fill the house with the wonderful smell of baking.
When I chanced upon this amazing recipe on Nasi Lemak Lover, I knew I had to make it.
Recipe Ingredients
This cake calls for simple ingredients:
- Salted butter
- Sugar
- Eggs
- All-purpose flour
- Milk
- Walnut
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients.
How To Make Walnut Butter Cake
Step 1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease two (2) mini loaf pans with butter. Sift the flour and baking powder, and set aside.
Step 2. Cream the butter, vanilla extract, and sugar until fluffy and pale (this takes about 4 minutes using an electric hand mixer at speed 2). Add the eggs one at a time, creaming well until combined before adding the next one.
Step 3. Fold in the flour, ground walnuts, and milk, mixing until well combined. Transfer the batter into the greased pan and gently shake to level it off. Sprinkle the whole walnuts on top.
Step 4. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the walnut butter cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack. Loosen the cake from the loaf pans and slice into pieces.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each slice of cake is only 298 calories.
What To Serve With This Cake
Serve this cake with your favorite beverage. For an afternoon tea, I recommend the following recipes.
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Walnut Butter Cake
Ingredients
- 4 oz. (125g) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4.5 oz. (130g) salted butter, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 oz. (90g) fine sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 oz. (60g) walnut, processed in a food processor until fine
- 1 oz. (30g) whole walnut, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease two mini loaf pans with butter. Sift the flour and baking powder, and set aside.
- Cream the butter, vanilla extract, and sugar until fluffy and pale (this takes about 4 minutes using an electric hand mixer at speed 2). Add the eggs one at a time, creaming well after each addition before adding the next.
- Fold in the flour, ground walnuts, and milk, mixing until well combined. Transfer the batter to the greased pan and gently shake it to level off. Sprinkle whole walnuts on top.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the walnut butter cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack. Loosen the cake from the loaf pans and slice it into pieces.
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Notes
- Add the eggs one at a time, creaming well until combined before adding the next one.
- Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hello Bee,
If i use 8″ length rectangular pan, is it considered mini or regular loaf? Thanks !
I tried making and it turned out very crumbly, not sure where did I go wrong :( should the walnuts be raw or roasted?
Walnut should be roasted already.
hi, made this cake and it tasted amazing but crumbly even when cooled-
pl reply – need to rectify my mistake-thnks
Hmm, it shouldn’t be. I had made this a few times!
More butter makes it less crumbly. :)
I bake this cake for my son birthday. It taste great. Love it, will definitely make them again. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Thanks Freda! :)
My husband requested me to bake this cake for his birthday. The measurement is right on, I double the batch and bake them in two 9″ round pan. I use buttercream frosting to complete the look and sandwich between the two layers. It came out lovely! I decided to order another sheet of cake from a very famous local bakery just so everyone has enough to eat. They didn’t know one of the cakes are homemade but the guests commented how good the butter walnut cake, better than the chocolate cake!
Freda – WOW, I am so happy that this walnut butter cake recipe worked out for you and I am sure your husband and guests were very happy. :)
I doubled the mix and it came out perfect was s good size cake and delicious .
Thank you for sharing your recipe
I made this recipe this morning. The first batch, the walnuts sunk in before they finished baking. The second batch, I put them on top about 15 mins into the baking. They stayed on top.
Yay, I am glad that it worked out for you. :)
Hi Bee, tried this amazingly easy recipe for the first time but i found that the cake crumbled very easily when i tried to remove it from the pan. Did you let the cake set in the pan for a bit after removing from the oven before taking it out of the pan?
Yes let cool first. Let me update the recipe section.
Thanks for the recipe! Just made a batch!
They are soooo yummy! :-)))
Thanks Molly for trying this Walnut Butter Cake recipe. I know it tastes AMAZING!
superb
Really afraid to try…measurements don’t sound right. 4 oz flour is only 1/2 cup…besides the rest of the ingredients still doesn’t add up to one regular size loaf??? Will have to check out some other recipes for same cake.
This walnut butter cake recipe is correct. You can double the recipe. My recipe makes only two mini loaves.
I doubled this , substituted rice flour for the wheat to experiment, used 1 cup walnuts . Really delicious .
Can I substitute the milk with yogurt?
Should be OK.
Just clarifying is the milk to be used in the liquid or solid form?
Liquid.