Recipes
Walnut cake
November 09, 2015
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Ingredients
- 4 cups plain flour
- ½ teaspoon vanilla powder or essence
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ cup honey
- 2 ¼ cups warm black tea
- ¾ cup sunflower oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 170C/335F/Gas Mark 3.5.
- Sift the flour. If using vanilla powder, add to cinnamon and baking powder, and mix. If using vanilla essence, mix with liquid ingredients instead.
- In a separate bowl, mix honey and tea, until the honey dissolves. Add sunflower oil and sugar and mix again briefly.
- Mix together the dry and liquid ingredients and whisk briefly by hand. Mix in the walnuts.
- Cook in an oiled 30cm diameter baking tin or 30x30cm deep tray for about 50 minutes.
- Leave to cool for about 10 minutes before turning out of the tin.
- Serve with cream.
