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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.
Hi Bee. Can I substitute milk with yoghurt? If yes, how many spoons should I add? Thanks.
Same.
Hi, can you confirm if you meant unsalted or salted butter please. Thanks.
Salted butter as the recipe stated.
Ok, thanks. The list of ingredients in your main article itself says “unsalted butter”. I will give it a go.
Ah I see. Sorry, it was a typo.
Hi.. Is there anything I can use to replace the eggs? Because my little one is allergic to eggs.
No.
Sounds delicious. I’m making it tomorrow!
Hi , I just tried it today. i am the only one in the house so I was looking for recipes for small portions fortunately I have seen this recipe. it was very successful, rise very well. baked very well and very tasty. Thank you.
Yummy walnut cake recepi ……. I tried 3 times and it came out very well . Everyone liked It … thank u for ur recepi and pls post carrot cake recepi ..
Awesome.
I have baked this twice and absolutely love it, Thank you for sharing
Awesome!
Tried this on half portion, taste great! Just wondering if I am using grounded walnut, it should be at the same weight of 60g – considering the oil released during grinding process. (Forgot to weight before throwing them into food processor)
Just use the same weight.
Not really big enough for a 75 birthday cake but it will do as only four people as we are social distancing forgot to add whole walnuts but will fix with a little butter icing smells divine xx
Hi Bee,
was wondering what fine sugar is? Is it icing sugar or is regular granulated sugar fine? Also, I saw in your butter cake recipe that we can use evaporated milk instead of milk, can this be substituted here for the same amount?
Thanks and can’t wait to try it!:)
Hi sorry, in addition to my previous comment, would I be able to use plain flour for this thanks!:)
Should be fine.
Plain flour is the same as all-purpose flour
Delicious I follow you from Guadalajara, Mexico , I love all you recepies !
Awesome thanks Monica.
Fine sugar is regular sugar that is fine. Yes.
Fine sugar is caster sugar in English recipes.
Could I grind up regular sugar to make it finer?
You can try.
Awesome recipe! It turned out wonderful. Just nice sweetness, soft and the ground walnut added an amazing flavour to it. I scaled the portion and did it for 6 servings instead of 4 servings. Used a round 8 inch tin and it filled half if it. Thanks again for the awesome recipe.
Hi Pearl, thanks for trying my recipe. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/. Butter cake, marble cake, banana cake and many cake recipes on my site are amazing.