Walnut cake with coffee syrup
Walnut cake with coffee syrup recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 6 eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup honey, plus more for garnish, divided
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar, divided
- 1 cup shelled walnuts, toasted and ground
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup strong fresh coffee
- Vanilla yogurt for garnish
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease sides and bottom of a spring form pan.
- Line base with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, beat egg yolks, 1/2 cup honey and 1/4 cup sugar until pale and creamy.
- In a separate bowl, combine walnuts, flour, baking powder and cinnamon.
- Stir into creamed mixture.
- In a small bowl, whisk egg whites until stiff, stir 1 tablespoon into batter.
- Fold in remaining whites until evenly incorporated.
- Pour batter into pan.
- Bake 30 minutes or until cake has risen and shrunk slightly from the sides of the tin.
- Meanwhile, heat coffee in a small pan with remaining 1/2 cup sugar, stirring until sugar has dissolved.
- Boil 3 to 4 minutes or until syrupy.
- Cool cake about 5 minutes.
- Transfer to a large plate.
- Spike all over with a skewer.
- Drizzle with syrup.
- Cool completely.
- Serve in wedges garnished with yogurt and drizzled with honey.
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