Maple Bundt Cake with Nuts
- Prep time
30 minutes - Cooking time
1 hour - 4
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
Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350º F.
- Cut the bread into 2 cm cubes.
- 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.
- Once the mixture has cooled, mix to a uniform texture using a blender (or hand mixer).
- Add the eggs, baking powder, flour, spice, and butter. Mix for 1 minute or until the mixture is smooth.
- Transfer the batter to a bowl, add the nuts and mix with a spoon.
- Generously coat the inside of a fluted cake pan (with a hole in the centre) with butter and flour.
- Pour in the batter and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Remove the cake from the oven and let cook on a cooling rack.
Maple frosting:
- Using a spoon, mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
- Frost the cake.
- Decorate with chopped nuts and serve.
*Recipe courtesy of Ann-Rika Martin