EASY WALNUT CAKE WITH DULCE DE LECHE FROSTING
- 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
- ½ cup (120mL) whipped cream
- ½ cup (113g) dulce de leche spread
- 10-15 pretzels, to decorate
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Brush a 9” cake pan with melted butter.
- In a large bowl, combine oil and both the sugars.
- Add eggs, one at a time and beat well after each addition.
- Mix in the bourbon vanilla extract.
- Add all purpose flour and baking powder in two additions, alternating with milk. Combine only until we’ll-combined. Do not over mix.
- Fold in the walnuts.
- 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.
- To make the frosting, fold the dulce de leche in the whipped cream.
- 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/
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