Tuesday 10 April 2012

Walnut cake

Yesterday we had a wonderful barbecue and I wanted to bake something good for my friends. I decided for this cake that I found in the book Vse o peki


Ingredients: 

Cake: 
4 eggs
2 spoons of orange juice
200 gr of sugar
1 envelop of vanilla sugar
150 gr of flour
1/2 spoon of baking powder

Filling:
125 gr of very soft butter
125 gr of powdered sugar
1 envelop of vanilla sugar
200 gr of chopped walnuts

Cover: 
3-4 spoons of apricot jam

Cover 2: 
2 spoons of orange juice
120 gr of powdered sugar
1 envelop of vanilla sugar

Decoration:
whole walnuts 
a few pieces of dark chocolate
a spoon of milk

Mix the eggs and the orange juice with the whisk for a minute on the highest speed. Slowly add sugar and vanilla sugar and continue mixing for a few minutes. Add the flour and baking powder, but keep the whisk on lowest speed. Put the dough in a model for cakes with the baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven on 180°C for 30 minutes.
When the cake is cold cut it in half or in 3 parts. My cake wasn't very tall, so I cut it in only 2 parts. (If you have only 2 parts, you can make less filling to put in.) For the filling mix the butter until creamy. Add sugar and vanilla sugar. Mix well and at the end add walnuts. Cover the lower part of the cake with the filling (or the 2 parts if you cut it in 3). Put the top on it and press gently. Spread the apricot jam on the top and on the side. 
Mix sugar, vanilla sugar and orange juice and do a smooth paste to put on the top. Decorate with some walnuts. In a pan melt the chocolate with some milk and decorate with it the top of the cake. Leave the cake in the fridge for an hour. 



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