EASY WALNUT CAKE WITH DULCE DE LECHE FROSTING
 
 
Ingredients
  • ½ cup (120mL) vegetable oil
  • ½ cup (100g) castor sugar
  • ½ cup (100g) cinnamon infused Demerara sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon (3mL) bourbon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups (240g) all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons (8g) baking powder
  • ¼ cup (60mL) whole milk
  • ½ cup (63g) walnuts, roughly chopped
FOR THE FROSTING-
  • ½ cup (120mL) whipped cream
  • ½ cup (113g) dulce de leche spread
  • 10-15 pretzels, to decorate
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Brush a 9” cake pan with melted butter.
  2. In a large bowl, combine oil and both the sugars.
  3. Add eggs, one at a time and beat well after each addition.
  4. Mix in the bourbon vanilla extract.
  5. Add all purpose flour and baking powder in two additions, alternating with milk. Combine only until we’ll-combined. Do not over mix.
  6. Fold in the walnuts.
  7. Transfer the batter into the prepared cake pan and bake at 180C for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
  8. To make the frosting, fold the dulce de leche in the whipped cream.
  9. Once the walnut cake has cooled, cover generously with the frosting and decorate with pretzels
Recipe by Bake with Shivesh at https://bakewithshivesh.com/easy-walnut-cake-with-dulce-de-leche-frosting/