Cake Recipes
Fancy Black Walnut Cake
A lovely buttermilk-based cake topped with Black Walnut Buttercream Frosting. Create a Missouri State Fair favorite fit for any occasion in your own home using the bold flavor of Black Walnuts.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs, separated
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups Hammons Black Walnuts
- 1–3 ounces flaked coconut
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
Frosting
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 box (4 cups) powdered sugar
- 1 cup ground Black Walnuts
Instructions
Cake
- Cream butter and shortening.
- Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy and sugar is dissolved.
- Dd egg yolks and beat well.
- Combine buttermilk and baking soda; stir until baking soda is dissolved.
- Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour.
- Add vanilla extract, Black Walnuts and coconut; stir thoroughly.
- Beat egg whites (room temperature), with cream of tartar, until stiff peaks form, then fold into batter.
- Pour batter into 3 greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
- Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove from pans and finish cooling.
- Ice with Black Walnut Butter Cream Frosting.
Black Walnut Butter Cream Frosting
- Cream the cream cheese, butter and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Slowly add powdered sugar; fold in Black Walnuts. Spread on cooled cake.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Hammons Products Company