This lovely cake is a beautiful blend of nuts and citrus. Dig in.
By Tamara Novacoviç
Citrus juice and zest lifts up the flavor of nuts, it gives them life. In this cake, walnuts are combined with orange. I still hold onto walnut cakes (walnuts are used a lot in Croatia during Christma holiday baking), but tend to combine it with refreshing citrus flavors, as the days get longer and a bit sunnier. Plus, there’s vitamin C, always welcome :)
Cake layers are made with rough flour. I am not sure whether this type of flour is available in US? As its name suggests, it doesn’t have fine texture like all-purpose flour. You can substitute it easily with all-purpose flour (same amount) if you don’t have rough version.
Recipe is adapted from here. 
Walnut orange cake
Description
This beautiful cake is a blend of citrus flavor and walnuts.
Ingredients
For cake layers:
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp (120 g) sugar
- 1/2 cup (120 g) ground walnuts
- 4 oz (120 g) (rough) flour
- zest of 1 orange
For the filling:
- 2 cups (500 ml) milk
- 2.8 oz (80 g) vanilla pudding powder
- 5 tbsp sugar
- 7 oz (200 g) butter
- 1 orange: zest + juice
And…
- some rum
- some orange juice
- some walnuts for decoration
Instructions
- For cake layers, separate egg yolks from whites. Beat yolks with sugar, gradually add sifted flour, walnuts and zest of 1 orange. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form and combine with the mixture. Line baking sheet (87 inch x 100 inch or 35 x 40 cm) with parchment paper, pour mixture onto it and bake at 356 F (180 C) for about 20 minutes (test with skewer). Let cool completely and cut vertically into 3 equal parts.
- For the filling, cook milk until it boils, but separate some milk which you combine with vanilla pudding powder. When the rest of the milk boils, add orange zest, sugar and milk combined with vanilla powder, cook on low heat stirring constantly until it thickens-you will get a custard. It will take only couple of minutes. Remove from heat, cover surface with plastic wrap and let cool completely.
- Beat softened butter with orange juice. When the filling has cooled, beat it with electric mixer one more time and then combine with mixed butter.
- Assembling: put 1st layer onto serving plate, sprinkle generously with orange juice combined with rum. You can poke layers with fork so that they soak more juices. Put 1/3 of the filling over the first layer, cover it with second layer. Again, sprinkle with juice and rum, put second part of the filling over it. Then cover with final layer, soak with juice and rum and put final part of the filling over it. Decorate entire cake with the rest of the filling and sprinkle with ground walnuts.
- Cake is best served after it sits in the fridge for 1 day, when all the flavors come together.
Wow! Your cake looks good. I’m curious about the rough flour, maybe some kind of whole wheat flour?
You’re killing me Tamara – I’m meant to be on a low-carb diet! By rough flour, I wonder if wholemeal flour would work? At least then I can kind of fool myself into thinking it’s lower-carb, right? ;-)
This looks delicious!
Thank you ladies! About the flour, a friend of mine who lives in the US told me that this is the type of flour used in this recipe, available in the USA market:
http://robinhood.ca/product-details.aspx?prodcid=44&pid=192
However, I recommend using all purpose flour if you cannot find this!
topdessertrecipes.net seem to be using this picture to entice people onto the website and then just lead ypou through advertising. found the picture on pininterest. Glad i found the real deal. thanks for sharing
oops sorry about the quick terrible spelling
thank you for letting us know!
best,
Tamara
woooooooo love the cake it taste like jaffa lollies i love the walnuts and curious taste the softness melting in the month as you eat it the filling of the cream so lovely i have made it for my family they just love it so much.
Thank you Tamara I made walnut & orange cake it is great recipe .
Favorite cake recipe, acquired!