This Maple Walnut Cake is so moist and scrumptious with an ideal stability of maple and walnut taste. We love maple truffles within the fall, and are so completely happy to have a brand new addition to our assortment.
We have made a number of maple truffles through the years, from Maple Carrot Cake to Maple Pecan Cake, Maple Pound Cake, Maple Almond Cake, and extra.
In at the moment’s recipe, moist maple walnut cake layers are glazed with maple syrup, and stuffed and frosted with maple cream cheese frosting. For added crunch, we added a sprinkling of crushed walnuts as nicely.
The buttermilk within the recipe makes for an further tender crumb, and the trace of brown sugar is the proper complement to the maple taste.
How one can Make Maple Walnut Cake
You’ll find the total, printable Maple Walnut Cake recipe on the backside of this submit. Here’s a fast have a look at our steps!
- Preheat oven to 350 levels F, grease and flour three 8 inch cake pans. We additionally wish to line the underside of our pans with a circle of parchement.
- Dry Elements: In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 30 seconds. Put aside
- Moist Elements: In one other bowl, add the buttermilk, maple syrup, vegetable oil and extracts (maple and vanilla). Put aside..
- Within the bowl of your mixer, add the softened butter and blend at medium velocity till clean. Then, add the brown and white sugar and cream it for 3-5 minutes till lightened in colour and fluffy.
- Subsequent, add the eggs separately mixing after every addition till the yellow of the yolk has blended.
- With the mixer on low velocity, alternately add the flour combination and buttermilk combination, starting and ending with the dry components. Combine simply till integrated.
- Fold within the chopped walnuts.
- Divide batter between the three cake pans and bake.
- As soon as the layers are executed, (about 22 minutes or so), cool within the pans on a wire rack for five minutes earlier than turning out. Cool fully earlier than filling and frosting.
Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
You might have seen that we LOVE cream cheese frosting and use it on a regular basis. ;0) Right now’s recipe relies on our traditional cream cheese frosting recipe, however I prolonged it only a bit with an extra stick of butter and extra sugar.
It is because we’re utilizing the frosting as a filling, and likewise doing somewhat adorning. We additionally added some maple extract to present our cake an added enhance of maple.
The frosting is a mixture of softened butter, softened cream cheese, a pinch of salt, and flavoring. It pipes nice and is simple to work with. Nonetheless, it’s a bit softer than most buttercream recipes. If it turns into too comfortable to simply work with, simply pop the frosting bowl or piping bag within the fridge for a couple of minutes to agency issues up.
Meeting
Place the primary cooled cake layer in your pedestal. Utilizing a pastry brush, we added a skinny layer of maple syrup to the highest, adopted with a layer of frosting. Then, a sprinkling of finely crushed walnuts.
Repeat the steps for the subsequent layers. We frosted the cake with a skinny layer of maple cream cheese frosting and chilled it for about 10-Quarter-hour to agency issues up earlier than including the ultimate layer of frosting.
Adorning the Cake
Adorn the cake nevertheless you want! We added a last layer of frosting, smoothed across the sides with a bench scraper, after which added a little bit of scrollwork utilizing a piping tip 3.
Crushed walnuts make a easy backside border. On prime, we simply swirled a bit of additional frosting for texture. Right here is is!
Extra Fall Desserts
We have made many extra fall truffles that you have to strive! A few of our favorites are Carrot Cake, Pumpkin Spice Cake, Maple Pound Cake, Candy Potato Cake, and Apple Dapple Cake. Be sure that to maintain these in thoughts for fall birthday truffles, Thanksgiving, and different gatherings!
Thanks a lot for stopping by, we hope that you simply get pleasure from this Maple Walnut Cake recipe as a lot as we’ve! For those who give it a strive, we might like to know what you suppose.
For the Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
For the Cake Layers
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Preheat oven to 350 levels F.
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In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 30 seconds. Put aside
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In one other bowl, add the buttermilk, maple syrup, vegetable oil and extracts (maple and vanilla). Put aside..
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Within the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and blend at medium velocity till clean.
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Steadily add the brown and white sugar and proceed to combine on medium velocity for 3 to five minutes till lightened in colour and fluffy.
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Add the eggs separately mixing after every addition till the yellow of the yolk has blended.
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With the mixer on low velocity, alternately add the flour combination and buttermilk combination, starting and ending with the dry components (3 additions of dry components and a couple of of liquid). Combine simply till integrated.
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Fold within the chopped walnuts.
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Divide batter between the three cake pans.
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Bake at 350 levels for 22 – 25 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear or with simply few crumbs hooked up. Let cool 10 minutes and end up. Bake occasions could vary- peek in as the top time approaches.
For the Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
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Reduce the butter into slices and add to the bowl of your mixer. Beat on low to medium velocity till the butter is softened and clean.
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Reduce the softened cream cheese into items and add to the butter, beating at low to medium velocity till integrated. In case you are utilizing a hand mixer you could want to melt the cream cheese a bit extra.
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Add the maple extract. Steadily add the powdered sugar beating on low velocity till blended. Cowl the bowl with a towel if wanted to maintain down the cloud of powdered sugar.
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Improve mixing velocity barely till nicely mixed. Watch out to not over-mix as it is going to grow to be very comfortable. (If this occurs, chill it within the fridge for a bit.)
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This frosting will pipe greatest if used whereas nonetheless chilled. You may make it upfront, refrigerate after which deliver out to the kitchen counter to melt up a bit. (Re-mix if wanted).
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Will frost and fill a 3 layer 8 or 9 inch cake.
Assembling the Cake
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Place the primary *cooled* cake layer on a cake base or pedestal. Brush with a skinny layer of maple syrup. That is an optionally available step. It’s not wanted for moistness, nevertheless it does add an added enhance of maple taste.
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Unfold a layer of maple cream cheese frosting on prime of the cake layer. Add a light-weight sprinkling of finely crushed walnuts if you would like. Add the second layer and repeat step(s). After flippantly glazing the ultimate cake layer, I positioned it glazed-side down on prime. It could not make a distinction however I did this simply in case it will make it simpler to frost.
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Subsequent, fill in any gaps between the cake layers with frosting and apply a skinny coat of frosting (or crumb coat) across the prime and sides of the cake. At this level we like to relax the cake for about Quarter-hour within the freezer to agency up the frosting. This corporations every little thing up and prevents the layers from sliding as you enhance. Apply the ultimate coat of frosting.
Substitution for Cake Flour: Utilizing all function flour (plain in UK) to make Cake Flour: For every cup of flour in a recipe, take away 2 Tablespoons of flour and substitute with 2 Tablespoons cornstarch (cornflour within the UK). This recipe has 3 cups of flour so you’ll measure out 3 cups of all function flour, take away 6 Tablespoons and substitute with 6 Tablespoons cornstarch, whisk to mix
Recipe makes 7 ½ cups batter
