This walnut butter Bundt cake is delightfully flavored with homemade toasted walnut butter, which is super easy to make. The walnuts at the bottom of the pan are a pretty topping when the cake is turned upright.
Recipes abound on the internet for homemade nut butters but I must confess that I have never made any. We don’t have any nut allergies and good ole Jif has been my go-to peanut butter since time eternal. If I had a dime for every jar I’ve hauled overseas in my suitcases over the last thirty plus years, I’d be a wealthy woman.
That said, the last place I lived outside of the US was Dubai and Jif was blessedly available there. Even in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore it turned up on occasion. Anyhoo, no good reason to make my own nut butter until now.
This month’s Bundt Baker theme is Nut Butters so I decided to be brave and try something new. I have this to say: Toasted walnut butter is fabulous. Such lovely flavor! Who knew it would be so easy to make.
Walnut Butter Bundt Cake
If you have an allergy to walnuts, I daresay you could substitute any nut you can tolerate but I highly recommend not skipping the toasting step. It adds a lot of depth to the nut butter. I used a 10-cup Bundt pan to bake this because I love the way the bottom of the Nordic Ware Fleur de Lis pan holds the extra walnut pieces in an almost diamond pattern, but it would fit in a 6 or 8 cup one as well, for a smaller taller Bundt.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups or 190g all-purpose flour, plus extra for the pan
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup or 75g butter, at room temperature, plus extra for the pan
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup or 75g fine sugar
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons milk
4 1/4 oz or 120g walnut pieces
Method
Turn your oven on to preheat to 350°F or 180°C. Put the walnuts on a baking pan and pop them in the preheating oven. Keep a close eye on them as the oven heats up and give the pan a shake every few minutes. Remove the walnuts from the oven when they start smelling toasted.
Grease your Bundt pan with butter and lightly flour. (As mentioned above, mine is the Nordic Ware Fleur de Lis <Amazon affiliate link with a good price. I paid almost $12 more back in 2015! Dang it.)
Process half of the toasted walnuts in your food processor until they become a fairly smooth paste.
Beat together the butter and sugar till fluffy and pale. Add in the eggs one at a time.
Cream well until well combined before adding another one.
Beat in the walnut butter, vanilla extract and milk.
Sift in the flour, baking soda and salt. Fold well to combine.
Put the remaining half of the toasted walnuts into the bottom of your prepared Bundt pan.
Spoon in the batter.
Gently use the bottom of a spoon to smooth the top out. You don't want to dislodge the nuts.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the walnut butter cake comes out clean. If you are a person who uses an instant read thermometer, the King Arthur Flour website says the internal temperature of a baked cake should be between 200-210°F or 93-99°C.
Remove the cake from the oven and let cool for about 10 minutes.
Loosen the cake from the Bundt pan and invert it onto a serving plate.
Slice to serve with tea, coffee, hot cocoa or a cold glass of milk.
Enjoy!
As mentioned, this month’s Bundt Bakers theme is Nut Butters. Many thanks to our host, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm. Check out the other recipes using nut butters in the batter, icing or glaze below.
- Banana Bundt with Cocoa Peanut Butter Glaze from Sweet Sensations
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake from Patyco Candybar
- Easy Frosted Peanut Butter Bundt Cake from Making Miracles
- Mini Peanut Butter Bundts from Passion Kneaded
- PB & J Mini Bundt Cake from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
- Peanut Butter Cake With Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Frosting from Sneha's Recipe
- Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Pound Cake from Palatable Pastime
- Peanut Butter, Nutella and Banana Bundt from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Walnut Butter Bundt Cake from Food Lust People Love
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