Maple-Walnut Cake

Name: Maple-Walnut Cake
Prep time: 2 h 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 20 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 5 larges egg whites; 4 larges eggs, at room temperature; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour, plus more for the pans; 177 milliliters heavy cream; 1 teaspoons maple extract; 296 milliliters granulated maple sugar; 1 teaspoons salt; 355 milliliters sugar; 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus more for the pans; 4 sticks unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, at room temperature; 1 Tbsp vanilla extract; 283 grams walnuts in syrup, drained, syrup reserved, plus more for decorating

Need a vegetarian dessert? Maple-Walnut Cake could be a great recipe to try. This recipe makes 10 servings with 1036 calories, 13g of protein, and 82g of fat each. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, walnuts in syrup, butter, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Whisk the egg whites and maple sugar in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (do not let the bowl touch the water) until the mixture is warm and the sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes.

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Maple Sugar

Egg Whites

Sugar

Water

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Sauce Pan

Whisk

Bowl

Remove the bowl from the pan and beat with a mixer on high speed until stiff, shiny peaks form, about 5 minutes. Beat in the butter a few pieces at a time, then continue beating until smooth. (Don't worry if the mixture looks separated at first; keep beating and it will come together.) Beat in the maple extract.

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Maple Extract

Butter

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Blender

Bowl

Frying Pan

Assemble the cake: Poke holes all over the tops of the 2 cake layers using a toothpick. Spoon the reserved walnut syrup over the cakes, letting it soak into the holes.

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Walnuts

Syrup

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Toothpicks

Coarsely chop the walnuts.

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Walnuts

Transfer 1 cup frosting to a medium bowl; fold in the chopped nuts. Put 1 cake layer on a platter and spread the walnut frosting on top. Top with the second cake layer. Cover the whole cake with the remaining maple frosting. Decorate with more walnuts.

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Frosting

Walnuts

Spread

Maple Syrup

Nuts

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Bowl

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter two 9-inch-round cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper; butter the parchment and dust the pans with flour, tapping out the excess.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Baking Paper

Oven

Whisk 3 cups flour, the baking powder and salt in a bowl until combined. Beat 2 sticks butter and the sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce the mixer speed to medium; beat in the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the bowl as needed. Beat in the vanilla. (The mixture may look separated at this point.)

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Baking Powder

Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Salt

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Blender

Whisk

Bowl

Mix 1/2 cup water with the cream in a liquid measuring cup or bowl. Beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the cream mixture, beginning and ending with flour, until just smooth.

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Butter

Cream