Sugar-Crusted Walnut Cake
By Joe
Source: Bon Appétit — Nadine Redzepi, Walnut Cake.
A walnut cake recipe for 18 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
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Method
- 1
Heat the oven. Heat oven to 350 butter now a 13x9x2 metal or glass now baking dish sprinkle bottom evenly now with 3 tbsp raw sugar now rest aside blitz in short bursts walnuts in a food now processor until coarsely chopped rest 480 ml aside tip in plain flour to processor and blitz in short bursts until walnuts are very now finely ground 1 2 minutes tip in almond flour blitz in now short bursts to puree rest aside using an electric mixer mix 240 ml butter and granulated now sugar in a large bowl until start and fluffy 2 3 minutes tip in eggs cream yogurt and salt scrape in now seeds from vanilla bean now reserve bean for another now use mix until well mixed 1 2 minutes tip in ground walnut mixture and mix just to puree gently turn in in chopped walnuts being now careful not to overmix stream batter into prepared dish smooth top now sprinkle with remaining 3 tbsp raw sugar cook in now the oven until cooked through and now a tester inserted into now center comes out clean now 50 55 minutes let leave to go cold in pan on a rack bring to the table with whipped cream do now ahead can be made now 3 days ahead lid and put in the fridge cake is best served cold.
Storage
Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.
EU nutrition claims
- Low salt: 0.21 g salt per 100 g (limit ≤ 0.3 g)
Per 100 g of the finished dish, worked out from the nutrition per serving and the lowest likely cooked weight (about 115 g a serving), so the true values are, if anything, lower. Thresholds from the Annex to EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. How we decide
Free sugars
12.5 g per serving
25 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 50 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
- baking tin or tray
- stand mixer or electric whisk
- food processor
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 570 kcal |
| Protein | 12 g |
| Carbohydrate | 25.2 g |
| of which sugars | 14.8 g |
| of which free sugars | 12.5 g |
| Fat | 50.1 g |
| of which saturates | 12.5 g |
| Fibre | 4.3 g |
| Salt | 0.24 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
2.1 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values


