Apple Walnut Cake
This Apple Walnut Cake is dense, full of flavor with a fresh finish of the apple. Add a scoop of ice cream and your dessert is done.
Ingredients
- 8 ounces butter soft
- 7 ounces light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 7 ounces all-purpose flour
- 4 ounces walnuts
- 1 apple
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a cake pan with butter.
- Pulse the walnuts in your food processor until fine meal.
- Beat 7 oz. of the butter with the light brown sugar until creamy.
- Add eggs, one at a time and incorporate each one, before you add the next.
- Mix baking powder and flour. Add flour mixture and walnuts to butter-egg mixture, as well as the vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
- Peel and core the apple. Cut in quarters and slice thinly, but don’t slice all the way through.
- Pour the batter in a greased cake form and level the top. Place apple quarters on top of the cake and push them into the batter, bottom down, sliced side up.
- Melt 1 oz. of butter and pour this over the apple pieces. Sprinkle with the sugar.
- Place cake in the over and bake for approx. 1 hour. (NOTE 1)
Notes
Nutritional value is based on 10 slices per cake.
- Check the cake before the recommended 1 hour baking is over. Every oven bakes differently and you might bake too long and create a drier cake than you want with a thicker crust than you prefer.
Nutrition
Serving: 1sliceCalories: 420kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 6gFat: 27gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gSodium: 172mgFiber: 2gSugar: 23g