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walnut cake recipe eggless /vanilla frosting walnut layer cake

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Total Time 50 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • All purpose flour/maida - 11/4 cups
  • Roughly powdered Walnuts - 1/2 cup
  • Baking powder - 1/2 tbsp
  • Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt - a pinch
  • vanilla essence - 1 tsp
  • Butter - 1/4 cup +1 tbsp
  • Sugar I have used natural organic sugar - 1/2 cup
  • Curd beaten - 1/4 cup
  • Lemon zest - a pinch
  • Lemon Juice - 1/2 tsp
  • Milk - 1 cup boiled,room temperature

For icing and decoration:

  • Butter cream icing as needed
  • Piping bag with star nozzle any preferred nozzle as you may like
  • Some whole walnuts to put on the cake.
  • Some walnut powdered sprinkles

Instructions
 

  • Keep everything ready.
  • Sieve flour with salt,baking powder,baking soda and keep ready.
  • In another bowl cream sugar and butter till light add curd and walnuts and mix well.
  • Add vanilla essence,lemon zest and juice,mix.
  • Then next simultaneously add milk and flour,beat well.
  • In-between ready a baking pan(6 inch) by greasing it with butter ,line with parchment and if you want dust some flour also.
  • Pre-heat at 170 degrees for 10 minutes.
  • Pour batter into prepared pan.
  • Bake it for 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Frosting the cake.

  • Cut the cooled cake into half.
  • Put the cream in-between the half.
  • Then close it and cover the cake or crust coat cake and keep it in fridge for 1 hour.
  • After that take out ,again add buttercream with a spatula and coat for second time and pipe with your own decorations.
  • I have used a star nozzle and pipe the cake.
  • Decorate with some walnut powder and walnuts.
  • (I first covered cake with aluminium foil for ten minutes to avoid over charring of top layer then I removed it and baked till done)

Notes

Oven temperatures differs with various oven so, set the temperature accordingly.
I baked by covering the cake with aluminium foil for 10 minutes then removed it and baked.
Cool the cake before frosting the cake.
You can use a parchment paper to cover the cake instead of aluminium foil.