French Four-Spice Cake with Browned Butter Spice Frosting

Name: French Four-Spice Cake with Browned Butter Spice Frosting
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Mediterranean, French, European
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 237 milliliters packed brown sugar; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 158 milliliters butter; 118 milliliters buttermilk; 2 larges eggs; 315 milliliters flour; 2 Tbsps half-and-half; 59 milliliters honey; 2 Tbsps lemon juice; 1 of Zest orange; 710 milliliters powdered sugar; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps unsweetened cocoa; 158 milliliters chopped toasted walnuts; 1 teaspoon quatre épices; 2 teaspoons quatre épices

The recipe French Four-Spice Cake with Browned Butter Spice Frosting could satisfy your Mediterranean craving in roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 12. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 482 calories, 4g of protein, and 24g of fat per serving. It works well as a dessert. If you have butter, salt, brown sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Butter and flour a 9-in. square pan.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Make cake: Beat butter, brown sugar, and zest in a large bowl with a mixer until fluffy.

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Brown Sugar

Butter

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Bowl

Add eggs and beat until well blended. In another bowl, combine flour and other dry ingredients.

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All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Add flour mixture to butter mixture one-third at a time, alternating with buttermilk half at a time, and beating on low speed after each addition until blended.

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Buttermilk

Butter

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Spread batter in pan.

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Spread

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Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

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Let cool on a rack, 10 minutes. Loosen cake from pan with a slender spatula, then invert onto a rack. Re-invert onto another rack; cool completely.

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Make frosting: Cook butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, swirling pan occasionally, until deep golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.

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Frosting

Butter

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Pour into a mixer bowl, let cool, then chill until firm enough to beat, about 30 minutes.

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Add remaining ingredients except for nuts and beat until fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes, occasionally scraping inside of bowl.

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Nuts

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Split cake horizontally with a long serrated knife. Lift off top layer with 2 wide spatulas. Set bottom layer on a platter, then spread with half of frosting. Replace top layer.

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Frosting

Spread

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Spread top of cake with remaining frosting, then sprinkle with nuts.

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Frosting

Spread

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quatre pices

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Servings:

1teaspoon

baking powder 1teaspoons

baking soda 237milliliters

packed brown sugar 118milliliters

butter, softened 158milliliters

butter 118milliliters

buttermilk 2larges

eggs 315milliliters

flour 2Tbsps

half-and-half 59milliliters

honey 2Tbsps

lemon juice 1of

Zest orange 710milliliters

powdered sugar 1teaspoons

salt 2Tbsps

unsweetened cocoa 158milliliters

chopped toasted walnuts 1teaspoon

quatre épices 2teaspoons

quatre épices

Recommended wine: Bordeaux, Champagne, White Burgundy

French on the menu? Try pairing with Bordeaux, Champagne, and White Burgundy. French wine is just as diverse as French food, but you rarely go wrong with champagne. If your meal calls for a white wine, you might also try a white burgundy. For a red, try a red bordeaux blend. You could try Calvet Cremant de Bordeaux Brut. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.9 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 17 dollars per bottle.