Walnut Butter Cake
This buttery cake is not dense but soft with walnut fragrance. So perfect to have a slice or two with a hot cup of tea or coffee.
Ingredients
- 250 g butter - room temperature
- 120 g caster sugar
- 4 large eggs - lightly beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200 g cake flour/plain flour
- 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 100 g walnuts - blend in the food processor to fine
- 80 g natural yoghurt - I used Greek yoghurt
Instructions
- Line a 8 inch round cake pan at the bottom and grease sides. Preheat oven to 180 deg C.
- Sift plain flour, baking powder and salt together, then mix in ground walnut and set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar with an electric beater at medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Use low speed and slowly add in beaten eggs until mixture incorporated and add in vanilla extract, mix well and stop machine..
- Fold in flour mixture in 3 batches with a rubber spatula, fold well.
- Add in natural yoghurt and fold well.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan and top with whole walnuts. Bake for about 50 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Remove the cake from oven, let it stay in cake pan for 10 minutes before removing it to cool completely on wire rack.
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