Walnut Butter Cake

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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!

Two loaves of walnut butter cake
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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.

Walnut butter cake.

Recipe Ingredients

Ingredients for walnut butter cake.

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

How many calories per serving?

Each slice of cake is only 298 calories.

Sliced walnut butter cake.

What To Serve With This Cake

Walnut butter cake on a cutting board.

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4.54 from 198 votes

Walnut Butter Cake

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!
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings: 8 servings
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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

Serving: 1g, Calories: 298kcal, Carbohydrates: 23g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 21g, Saturated Fat: 9g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 5g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 81mg, Sodium: 175mg, Potassium: 90mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 11g, Vitamin A: 474IU, Vitamin C: 0.1mg, Calcium: 58mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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205 Comments

  1. Meghna Addi says:

    Hi, I do not have a scale at my place. I usually use measuring cups for measurements. Can you please provide the recipe in cups?

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Meghna, there is a conversion by a reader in the comments section. You should buy a scale next, it’s the same price measuring cup!

  2. Gen says:

    My family loves this recipe!

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Awesome!

  3. Rekha says:

    Hi Bee,
    I got my first Kitchenaid Mixer today and the first recipe I tried out was this Walnut Butter Cake, which is my husband’s favourite Cake. It turned out, oh so amazing!!! I doubled the quantity of the ingredients, as I have a larger loaf pan and I wanted to bake a big batch. Turned out just perfect. This is a recipe for keeps. Plan to try out your Marble Cake and Banana Cake next. Thanks.

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Awesome, yes, please try!

    2. pearl says:

      Hi Bee. I used to be able to easily scale the recipe from your website but this feature is not missing. :(

      1. Rasa Malaysia says:

        Hi Pearl, I have changed the recipe card on my site.

  4. Penny says:

    Thank you for the recipe!!! Made this today, very good.

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Awesome, please try more recipes on my site: https://www.666630.xyz/recipe-index-gallery/

      1. Wendy says:

        Can I only use walnut flour?

        1. Rasa Malaysia says:

          Not sure. I never use it.

  5. Vivienne Tranter says:

    can i use hazelnuts instead and is it plain flour or self raising

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Plain flour. Yes, hazelnuts should be fine.

  6. Swaathishree says:

    Baked this cake in a round pan for my birthday and topped it with chocolate ganache. It was so good and everyone loved it!!! Thanks a lot for this recipe :)

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Awesome!

  7. Devyani Misra says:

    Just wanted to say THANK YOU for this amazing recipe! This was my first time baking and it turned out so good. Seriously loved it! Will definitely be using your website for more:)

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Awesome please try more recipes on my site: https://www.666630.xyz/recipe-index-gallery/

  8. Michael Lagana says:

    The amount of flour seems wrong & the proportions will make it taste like a Twinkie

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Michael, this recipe is tried and tested many times and look exactly like the photos every time I bake. Have you even tried baking this recipe? If you haven’t, then do not jump to your own conclusion. This is a cake, not a Twinkle.

    2. Hae says:

      Same. This recipe is somewhat wrong. I weighed every ingredients but the flour seems alittle off.. i did not get a cake batter.

      1. Rasa Malaysia says:

        Hae, this recipe works 100%. I have baked it dozens of time, just follow the instructions and weight precisely and there is no way you will fail this recipe.

        1. Vevozolu says:

          Hi Rasa, can I use round cake tins to make this recipe??

          1. Rasa Malaysia says:

            Yes.

  9. JES says:

    can I use cake flour instead? Dun have to put baking powder if I use cake flour right? Thank you.

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      You need baking powder. I think cake flour should be fine. Cake flour is just lower gluten.

      1. JES says:

        thank you.

        1. Ferera says:

          Letโ€™s say If Iโ€™d like to make a bigger batch of this, the ingredients all should multiply by 2 right? Please advise. Thanks

  10. Joanne Ross says:

    What size mini loaf pns are we talking about? there are many sizes dear. tysm.

    1. Yvonne Soh says:

      I wanted to use a baking pan to bake this cake and how many inches should I use?