Walnut Cake with Chocolate Sauce

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Walnut Cake with Chocolate Sauce

A round caramel flan sits on a white plate. The dessert has a smooth, glossy caramel coating on top, with some caramel dripping down the sides and pooling around the base. This delicious treat is inspired by Maria Lawton's Azorean cooking, showcasing her traditional flan recipe.

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This cake was made for very special occasions in St Michael, Azores. It was often made at Christmas time because that’s when fresh walnuts were available. My Aunt Lilia, who shared this recipe with me, said that this cake was a popular treat that everyone always looked forward to having.

 

This wonderful nutty cake is not too sweet with the exception of the sauce being soaked into the cake. I let the cake soak for an hour before I serve it and my family loves it! I hope yours does, too.

Ingredients

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1 cup of Walnut Meal (Whole Walnuts pulsed in food processor)

1 cup of sugar

5 Eggs

4 tablespoons of all purpose flour

Instructions

Beat the eggs and sugar well until creamed and then add the walnut meal and flour and mix all together until well blended. If the mix is too wet you can adjust and add another tablespoon of flour until it’s the right consistency.

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Grease 9″ cake pan and bake at 350 for 1 hour. The cake will not rise and will form a nice golden crust.

 

 

 

Chocolate Sauce

sauce

  • 1 cup of Sugar
  • 1 cup of whole milk
  • 1 tablespoon of butter
  • 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder

Note: I used a 16 oz bag of whole walnuts and I was able to get 3 cups of walnut meal. So I used 3 cups of sugar, 15 eggs and 12 tablespoons of flour which made a very big 10″ round x 3″ deep cake.

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1 thought on “Walnut Cake with Chocolate Sauce”

  1. Norma Rodrigues

    Love making your recipes. Got your cookbook when it first came out.
    My grandparents immigrated in 1906, to Fall River, Mass. then to Calif. They came from Santa Barbara, Sao Miguel. My daughter, two grand daughters and myself visited in 2014 for the first time and fell in love with with the Island, food and people. We are hoping to visit again.
    Thank you so much for sharing your recipes and stories with us.
    Sincerely,
    Norma Pimentel Rodrigues

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