[Food] Non-sweet walnut cake.
Yesterday I experimented with a walnut cake. I did two things different from my normal cake recipe.
The result was a cake which tasted nice, though Janjaap would have prefered if it was somewhat sweeter. Part this came from the nutt taste in the cake, but another part is just my own taste; I do not like cake which is too sweet.
Recipe:
Put the sugar and the maple syrup in a bowl. Use a mortal and pestle to grind some walnuts into small parts and melt the butter. (About 1 minute in a 900 watt microwave should do that). Add the ground nutts to the butter and wait about 15 minutes.
Add the butter to the sugar. And start adding the eggs one by one while whisking the mixture. After a minute or two start adding the flour. Do not add the remaining nutts until after you finish (you want to keep the nutts halfs intact).
Bake for about a hour at 180C.
( I baked 70 minutes at 160C and while the cake was fine it lacked a nice brown crust.)
[Update]
I took part of the cake with me to work and one college also commented that it was not sweet enough. Yet another commented that it tasted better then the usual cakes because it was not as sweet.
- I used slightly less sugar and added some maple syrup instead
- I ground some nuts into fine parts and added these to the butter for a stronger nutt-flavour.
The result was a cake which tasted nice, though Janjaap would have prefered if it was somewhat sweeter. Part this came from the nutt taste in the cake, but another part is just my own taste; I do not like cake which is too sweet.
Recipe:
- 180 grams of sugar. (normally 200 grams)
- About 5 CC of maple syrup
- About 10 half walnuts, ground finely.
- 200 grams of butter, meldted
- 4 eggs
- 200 gram of flour.
- 20 walnuts for in the cake
Put the sugar and the maple syrup in a bowl. Use a mortal and pestle to grind some walnuts into small parts and melt the butter. (About 1 minute in a 900 watt microwave should do that). Add the ground nutts to the butter and wait about 15 minutes.
Add the butter to the sugar. And start adding the eggs one by one while whisking the mixture. After a minute or two start adding the flour. Do not add the remaining nutts until after you finish (you want to keep the nutts halfs intact).
Bake for about a hour at 180C.
( I baked 70 minutes at 160C and while the cake was fine it lacked a nice brown crust.)
[Update]
I took part of the cake with me to work and one college also commented that it was not sweet enough. Yet another commented that it tasted better then the usual cakes because it was not as sweet.