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Walnut butter cake with ground walnut in rich and buttery cake. If you love walnut, you'll love this amazing walnut butter cake recipe. So delicious!
Walnut Butter Cake Recipe
Two of the most popular baking recipes on Rasa Malaysia are butter cake and brownie butter cake.
I am always excited to try new butter cake recipes.
I like simple cakes, plain old rich, buttery, sweet cakes that fill the house with the wonderful smell of baking.
When I chanced upon this amazing recipe on Nasi Lemak Lover, I knew I had to make it.
Recipe Ingredients
This cake calls for simple ingredients:
- Salted butter
- Sugar
- Eggs
- All-purpose flour
- Milk
- Walnut
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients.
How To Make Walnut Butter Cake
Step 1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease two (2) mini loaf pans with butter. Sift the flour and baking powder, and set aside.
Step 2. Cream the butter, vanilla extract, and sugar until fluffy and pale (this takes about 4 minutes using an electric hand mixer at speed 2). Add the eggs one at a time, creaming well until combined before adding the next one.
Step 3. Fold in the flour, ground walnuts, and milk, mixing until well combined. Transfer the batter into the greased pan and gently shake to level it off. Sprinkle the whole walnuts on top.
Step 4. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the walnut butter cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack. Loosen the cake from the loaf pans and slice into pieces.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each slice of cake is only 298 calories.
What To Serve With This Cake
Serve this cake with your favorite beverage. For an afternoon tea, I recommend the following recipes.
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Walnut Butter Cake
Ingredients
- 4 oz. (125g) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4.5 oz. (130g) salted butter, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 oz. (90g) fine sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 oz. (60g) walnut, processed in a food processor until fine
- 1 oz. (30g) whole walnut, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease two mini loaf pans with butter. Sift the flour and baking powder, and set aside.
- Cream the butter, vanilla extract, and sugar until fluffy and pale (this takes about 4 minutes using an electric hand mixer at speed 2). Add the eggs one at a time, creaming well after each addition before adding the next.
- Fold in the flour, ground walnuts, and milk, mixing until well combined. Transfer the batter to the greased pan and gently shake it to level off. Sprinkle whole walnuts on top.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the walnut butter cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack. Loosen the cake from the loaf pans and slice it into pieces.
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Notes
- Add the eggs one at a time, creaming well until combined before adding the next one.
- Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Never baked a thing in my entire life, so wanted to surprise my wife with a home made cake for her birthday.
I baked it as per the instructions and it came out absolutely beautiful. I had to make another straight away to satisfy her (and my kids) cravings!!
thank you so much…need to move on to more complex ones now!
My tip is to not whizz up the walnuts so they are fine, i used a pestle and mortar to mash them so that they were a bit more chunky, it gives the cake a lovely nutty texture.
Hi Nicolas, sounds yummy, I am so glad you tried this walnut butter cake recipe!
Hi,
Can I use 8 inch square pan for this recipe? Do I have to take the same measurements or double them?
Yes. Same measurement.
Can i use a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan for the walnut butter cake recipe? Thanks!
Yes.
Hi Bee,
Can i use a 9 inch loaf pan to bake the walnut cake or do i have to double the ingredients for the cake to be great? The loaf pan is 25 x 13 x 2.5cm.
Thanks!
I think it should be fine.
Hi Bee
Thanks for this awesome recipe that I know I must make it as it has reminded me on the yumminess my colleague used to bake for us many many years ago.
I hv doubled the recipe for a 7-inch square tin. I found the batter of this recipe a lot thicker then your butter cake which I made last week. This is despite the fact that I hv only used 100g finely chopped walnuts n 3/4 tbsp more of yoghurt.
The cake is now baking in the oven n I hope it will turn out not dry n crumbly. I will update here aft it is done.
Wish me luck!
Grace
This is a very good recipe I am sure you will have success with this walnut butter cake.
U r so right, Bee. My hubby n son gave big thumbs up for it!!!
The texture is so soft n fluffy, something I hv not expected at all fr a butter cake!
On the crumbly part that few hv commented above, I think it is v much due to the chopped walnuts. It is less crumbly if u cut it only the next day as cakes became moistened aft 1 night. This is just my 2 cents to share.
And with this success, I m gonna retry the butter cake hopefully for a better texture as it is a v yummy cake too.
Once again, big thank you to you, Bee, u hv rekindled my lost love for butter cake!!! ?
Awesome Grace. Good tip on cutting the cake the next day but it will be very hard since we can’t wait to eat it. LOL.
Bee,
I can’t resist this recipe so baking it now, I hv doubled the recipe n cake is in the oven at this moment.
I only used about 100g of finely chopped walnut n increased the yoghurt by abt 3/4 tbsp,
However, I found the batter thicker compared to your butter cake recipe n hopefully this cake would turn out fine.
Will update here aft Cake is done, wish me luck!
Grace
Do we add baking powder if we are using self rsing flour? The cake is good but doesn’t rise more than 1-1.5″. What should be done to make it rise more
I am not sure about self rising flour. Use all-purpose flour.
Hi ,
1.can i have eggless butter walnut cake recipe. instead of EGG what i substitute with.
2 Can i have 9″ cake tray pls. TQ
Hi sorry I don’t know how to make an eggless cake.
Yes, you can use a 9″ cake tray.
Your recipes look so good but why can’t you convert into cups etc.??
Amazing recipe! Used yoghurt instead of milk and some cointreau instead of vanilla, but otherwise stuck to the weights, came out super soft and delicous :)
Yes, this walnut butter cake recipe is amazing.
Tried this recipe and it turned out very nice..and its a simple recipe to do.
Can I know how to make the cake more moist? By adding more butter or milk or adjust the baking time? TIA
Nick
You can add more butter.