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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, I do not have a scale at my place. I usually use measuring cups for measurements. Can you please provide the recipe in cups?
Meghna, there is a conversion by a reader in the comments section. You should buy a scale next, it’s the same price measuring cup!
My family loves this recipe!
Awesome!
Hi Bee,
I got my first Kitchenaid Mixer today and the first recipe I tried out was this Walnut Butter Cake, which is my husband’s favourite Cake. It turned out, oh so amazing!!! I doubled the quantity of the ingredients, as I have a larger loaf pan and I wanted to bake a big batch. Turned out just perfect. This is a recipe for keeps. Plan to try out your Marble Cake and Banana Cake next. Thanks.
Awesome, yes, please try!
Hi Bee. I used to be able to easily scale the recipe from your website but this feature is not missing. :(
Hi Pearl, I have changed the recipe card on my site.
Thank you for the recipe!!! Made this today, very good.
Awesome, please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Can I only use walnut flour?
Not sure. I never use it.
can i use hazelnuts instead and is it plain flour or self raising
Plain flour. Yes, hazelnuts should be fine.
Baked this cake in a round pan for my birthday and topped it with chocolate ganache. It was so good and everyone loved it!!! Thanks a lot for this recipe :)
Awesome!
Just wanted to say THANK YOU for this amazing recipe! This was my first time baking and it turned out so good. Seriously loved it! Will definitely be using your website for more:)
Awesome please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
The amount of flour seems wrong & the proportions will make it taste like a Twinkie
Michael, this recipe is tried and tested many times and look exactly like the photos every time I bake. Have you even tried baking this recipe? If you haven’t, then do not jump to your own conclusion. This is a cake, not a Twinkle.
Same. This recipe is somewhat wrong. I weighed every ingredients but the flour seems alittle off.. i did not get a cake batter.
Hae, this recipe works 100%. I have baked it dozens of time, just follow the instructions and weight precisely and there is no way you will fail this recipe.
Hi Rasa, can I use round cake tins to make this recipe??
Yes.
can I use cake flour instead? Dun have to put baking powder if I use cake flour right? Thank you.
You need baking powder. I think cake flour should be fine. Cake flour is just lower gluten.
thank you.
Let’s say If I’d like to make a bigger batch of this, the ingredients all should multiply by 2 right? Please advise. Thanks
What size mini loaf pns are we talking about? there are many sizes dear. tysm.
I wanted to use a baking pan to bake this cake and how many inches should I use?