Black Walnut Christmas Cake

Recipe Ingredients

1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Butter
4		Egg
2 cups	125g / 4.4oz	Flour
3/4 teaspoon	3.8ml	Salt
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Sugar
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vanilla
2 teaspoons	10ml	Baking powder
1/2 cup	118ml	Milk
1 cup	237ml	Black walnuts

Recipe Instructions

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks all at once. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together. Set aside 1 cup of the dry ingredients.

Add the remaining flour mixture and the milk in small portions, alternately, mixing well with each addition, starting and ending with an addition of the dry ingredients. Mix together, the reserved flour and the nuts, and stir into the batter, mixing just until blended.

Beat the egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Fold them into the batter.

Bake in a 9 X 5 X 3" greased and floured loaf pan, or 3 quart mold at 350F about 50 to 60 minutes, or until done.

Frost with your favorite icing.

Source:
"The Seven Chocolate Sins" by Ruth Moorman and Lalla William

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