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.

Course sweets and desserts

Cuisine vegetarian

Keyword butter cake, Christmas, cinnamon, frosting, mascarpone cheese, nuts, walnuts, whipped cream

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 25

Total Time 55

Servings 18 – 20 cm wide cake

Calories 222kcal

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

All the ingredients except the whipping cream should be at room temperature.
Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy about 3 – 4 minutes with your stand mixer.
Continue beating while adding the eggs (one at a time) then add the vanilla extract and finally add the milk.
In a mixer, blend the walnuts until they have the consistency of flour.
Add the walnuts to the butter mixture and stir in by hand. Gently stir in the flour and baking powder. Don’t overmix the batter. The mixture should be smooth, homogeneous and dense.
Cover the bottom of two round baking pans (18 – 20 cm wide) with baking paper. Divide the batter between the two pans and bake in preheated oven at 165° C for 25 – 30 min.

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.