Kelli's Aunt Irene's Black Walnut Cake
 
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup of Shortening (you can use unsalted butter if you had rather)
  • 2 Cups Sugar
  • 3 Cups Flour
  • 3 Tsp. Baking Powder
  • 1 Cup Milk
  • ½ Tsp. Black Walnut Flavoring
  • 1 Tsp. Vanilla
  • 5 eggs, separated with whites beaten until stiff
  • ½ Tsp. Salt
  • + Glaze
  • Glaze Ingredients:
  • 5 egg yolks, slightly beaten
  • 1 ½ Cups Buttermilk
  • 1 ½ Cups Sugar
  • 1 Tbsp. Butter
  • 1 Tsp. Vanilla
  • 1 Cup Black Walnuts – chopped
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375F
  2. Cream Butter and Sugar.
  3. Slowly add in flour, baking powder, and milk mixing well.
  4. Stop mixer and fold in Black walnut flavoring vanilla, salt, and egg whites.
  5. Do not mix heavily – you want to see bits of those egg whites throughout!
  6. Spread evenly into one bundt cake pan.
  7. Bake in preheated oven for 40-50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  8. Allow to cool on wire racks and turn out cakes to cool completely.
  9. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients except black walnuts in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until thick (about 15 minutes) but never allow to boil.
  10. When thick, take off stove and stir in walnuts then pour over each layer as you stack them on top of each other.
  11. Let cool and serve.
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