Walnut cake with mascarpone and cinnamon frosting

Walnut cake with mascarpone and cinnamon frosting is a delicious cake perfect for Christmas and different occasions. The flavor of walnuts goes perfectly with mascarpone and cinnamon creamy filling. It stays fresh for quite few days, so it can be prepared a couple of days before the holidays.

Walnut cake with mascarpone and cinnamon frosting

Sweet and delicious walnut cake with mascarpone and cinnamon frosting.
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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 25 mins
Total Time 55 mins
Course sweets and desserts
Cuisine vegetarian
Servings 1 18 – 20 cm wide cake
Calories 222 kcal

Ingredients
  

Walnut cake

  • 50 g walnuts
  • 200 g all-purpose flour
  • 2.5 tsp baking powder
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 200 g soft butter
  • 180 g brown sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 5 tbsp milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

Mascarpone cheese frosting

  • 200 ml cold whipping cream
  • 125 g mascarpone cheese
  • 3 tbsp powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Decoration

  • some walnuts

Instructions
 

Instructions: Walnut cake with mascarpone and cinnamon frosting

The mascarpone cream

  • Meanwhile, prepare the frosting. In a bowl pour the mascarpone, cold whipping cream and icing sugar. Whip the frosting for 4 – 5 minutes adding the cinnamon towards the end.
  • Take the cake from the oven. Let it cool down and fill with mascarpone frosting then decorate with some walnuts.

Notes

The nutritional values are generated automatically for indicative purposes only and are therefore not completely accurate.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cakeCalories: 222kcal
Keyword butter cake, Christmas, cinnamon, frosting, mascarpone cheese, nuts, walnuts, whipped cream
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lot of love. B.

p.s. If you are looking for some perfect decoration for this cake check my Super easy meringue decorations for cakes. (foto below)

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