Black Walnut Apple Cake Recipes

APPLE WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat sugar and eggs. Add oil and vanilla; mix well. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg; gradually add to sugar mixture, mixing well. Stir in apples and walnuts. Pour into a greased and floured 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° until a toothpick comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Cool on a wire rack., For frosting, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a bowl. Gradually add confectioners' sugar until the frosting has reached desired spreading consistency. Frost cooled cake.

FRESH APPLE & BLACK WALNUT CAKE WITH CARAMEL GLAZE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9" bundt pan and set aside.
• 2. In a large bowl, beat sugar, oil, eggs and flavorings until light and fluffy. Mix flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon together and add to creamed mixture. Mix only until blended (I use my spatula and not my electric mixer so as not to overbeat). Fold in apples and nuts.
• 3. Spread batter into prepared bundt pan and bake about one hour and 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and transfer onto serving plate. Top with caramel glaze (directions to follow) and serve.
• 4. CARAMEL GLAZE: Place all ingredients into a heavy saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, scraping the sides of the pot in order to remove any sugar crystals until mixture comes to a boil and begins to thicken. Allow to cool for about 10 minutes. Drizzle over slightly warm cake.
• 5. TIP: Sometimes black walnuts can be difficult to find. If you don't have black walnuts, you may use pecans or english walnuts but just follow this step: Place nuts in a bowl and add about 1 teaspoon of black walnut flavoring. Stir to coat and let stand for about 30 minutes. Use in recipe as usual.

BLACK WALNUT APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour a tube or bundt cake pan and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Blend eggs, oil, nutmeg, and sugar until creamy.
• Add flour, a little at a time; and blend well.
• Batter will be stiff.
• Fold in apples and nuts.
• Pour into tube or bundt cake pan and bake for 1 hour.
• Remove from pan after about 30 minutes.
• Punch holes in top of the cake.
• Mix together topping ingredients in a saucepan.
• Boil for three minutes, stirring frequently.
• Take off the heat and pour topping over cake with a spoon, letting it to seep into the cake holes.
• Brush the sides of the cake with a kitchen brush.
• Let it set for at least 24 hours befor cutting and serving.