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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
How to Make Walnut Butter Cake?
It’s very easy to bake this delicious cake at home. The steps are very simple.
The walnut is first ground and then mixed with the batter.
The cake is topped with whole walnuts and baked.
This recipe makes two mini loaves. The cake is extremely delicious, light, yet buttery with walnut.
How Many Calories per Serving?
Each slice of cake is only 209 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. all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4.5 oz. salted butter, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 oz. fine sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 oz. walnut, processed in a food processor until fine
- 1 oz. whole walnut, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Grease two (2) mini loaf pans with butter. Sift the flour and baking powder, set aside.
- Cream butter, vanilla extract and sugar till fluffy and pale (take about 4 mins using electric hand mixer at speed 2). Add in the eggs one at a time, cream well until well combined before adding another one.
- Fold the flour, ground walnut and milk, and mix to combine well. Transfer the batter into the greased pan, shake gently to level off the batter. Sprinkle the whole walnuts on top.
- Bake for 30-35 mins or until a cake tester inserted into the walnut butter cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven, let cool on a wire rack. Loosen the cake from the loaf pans and slice into pieces.
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Nutrition
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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.