Maple Walnut Cake Recipe • A Maple Celebration! | Club Foody

As you know, I’m originally from Québec also known as “La Belle Province”. Besides being mostly French speaking, this province has a lot of traditions and events unique to it like Saint Jean Baptiste on June 24th, Corn Roasting 🌽, Winter Carnival, and others including Sugar Shacks!
 
March is the beginning of this delicious event! People gather in large rustic log cabins, sitting down at long wood tables covered with red-white checkered tablecloths. While live music 🎵 is playing in the background, traditional Québec dishes are brought to the patrons.
 
Most “cabane à sucre” (sugar shacks) offer an all-you-can-eat menu. You’ll find Pea Soup, Baked Beans, Omelets or Scrambled Eggs with maple-baked Ham and Bacon 🥓 plus Sausage soaked in maple syrup, Creton, Boiled Potatoes, Tourtière (meat pie), Oreilles de Crisse (deep-fried pork rinds), Foie Gras, plus condiments like ketchup, pitchers of maple syrup (like it’s not sweet enough as it is, lol), fresh Crusty Bread, butter, etc.
 
When it comes to dessert 🍰🍩, there are a long list of deliciousness such as Pouding Chômeur (poor man’s pudding), Tarte au Sirop d’Érable (maple syrup pie), Grand-Pères (maple syrup dumplings), Maple Ice Cream, Crêpes, Butter Tarts, and many more plus stepping outside to get maple taffy on snow rolled on a small popsicle stick… yum!
 
Here’s another sweet treat for the occasion… my Maple Walnut Cake! With a good dose of maple syrup, this incredibly scrumptious cake fits right in with the sugar shack event. With a nice creamy Maple Syrup Frosting along with some Maple Glazed Walnuts, this is a dessert perfect for any maple syrup lover 💖!
 
Being the main star, maple syrup is everywhere; in the cake, frosting and decoration. Table Syrup or Pancake Syrup is far from the real Maple Syrup… here’s why.
– First, there’s no maple in it!
– Second, they’re often made with corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup along with preservatives and additives like cellulose gum (thickening agent) and sodium hexametaphosphate (for texture). Maple Syrup has only one ingredient… guess what it is?
– Third, they don’t taste the same. Maple syrup has a clean complex, deep and rich flavor with hints of caramel, vanilla and a light buttery background. I prefer dark color for a more robust taste.
– Lastly, there are no health benefits in Table Syrup or Pancake Syrup. On the other hand, maple syrup has lots of minerals and antioxidants such as manganese, potassium, calcium, zinc and iron plus it’s natural 💚.
 
Price point, of course the commercial ones are cheaper. The reason why the “real stuff” is so pricey is due to harvest. After the maple is extracted from the trees 🌳, it is then boiled to create the final product. It takes about 40 gallons of maple water to produce one gallon of it.
 
I know it’s more money 💰 but it’s so worth it! If you might think that’s too much, skip Starbucks for a week or bring your lunch to work. I think making compromises to eat better is a responsibility towards ourselves and helps prevent illness.
 
Back to the making of the Maple Walnut Cake…
After greasing 2 3×8-inch cake pans with butter, parchment paper rounds are placed at the bottom. My method is different from most people so you might want to check by clicking the link: Parchment Paper Rounds for Cakes. After the batter is evenly divided between the cake pans, it’s baked for 26 to 28 minutes ⏰. It takes more time than regular cake batter for one simple reason… the added maple syrup.
 
While they’re in the oven, the Maple Glazed Walnuts are made. This is a quick and super easy recipe as it takes only 6 to 7 minutes for the caramelization to be done with only 3 ingredients. Besides using them as a cake decoration, they’re also amazing with a charcuterie board or just by themselves 😉.
 
The final step to making this cake is the frosting. This takes a little longer but the end results are so delicious 😋! It’s important to add the sugars a little at a time and process until nicely blended – that’s the part that takes time.
 
At one point, the mixture will get very, very dry and this is when we add half of the maple syrup. When we’re left with a little of both sugars, we then add the remaining ingredients including vanilla extract which can be substituted with maple extract. If the frosting is too thick, add a tablespoon of maple syrup at a time to get the desired consistency.
 
This Maple Walnut Cake is incredibly scrumptious! With a gorgeous maple flavor 🍁, this dessert is perfect for celebrating the sugar shack season in Québec. It’s also a delightful sweet treat to welcome in the Spring season!
Bon Appétit! 🍽
 
Check out these other scrumptious cake recipes… 😀
– Lamington Cake
– Creamy Cheesecake
– Chocolate Beet Cake
– Red Velvet Cake
– Tropical Pineapple Upside Down Cake
– Blueberry Cake
– Black Forest Cake
and for even more dessert recipes 🍩🍰, click on this link… Recipe Category • Dessert

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