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Maple Bundt Cake with Nuts

  • Prep time
    30 minutes
  • Cooking time
    1 hour
  • 4

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 500 g Homestyle bread
  • 750 ml milk
  • ½ cup maple sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 2½ tbsp baking powder
  • ¼ cup flour
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 2 tsp Five-spice mix
  • 1 cup mixed nuts, chopped
  • Butter and flour to coat the cake pan

 

Maple frosting:

  • 1 egg white
  • ½ cup icing sugar
  • 1 cup maple sugar
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup

Preparation

Cake:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350º F.
  2. Cut the bread into 2 cm cubes.
  3. Heat the milk and sugar in a pot over low heat. Take the pot off the stove and add the bread cubes; let soak for 5 minutes.
  4. Once the mixture has cooled, mix to a uniform texture using a blender (or hand mixer).
  5. Add the eggs, baking powder, flour, spice, and butter. Mix for 1 minute or until the mixture is smooth.
  6. Transfer the batter to a bowl, add the nuts and mix with a spoon.
  7. Generously coat the inside of a fluted cake pan (with a hole in the centre) with butter and flour.
  8. Pour in the batter and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
  9. Remove the cake from the oven and let cook on a cooling rack.

 

Maple frosting:

  1. Using a spoon, mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
  2. Frost the cake.
  3. Decorate with chopped nuts and serve.

*Recipe courtesy of Ann-Rika Martin