This week is a Tuesdays With Dorie two-fer! Along with a post for a delicious Coconut Lime Tea Cake, you can read all about a little incident at the Tender Crumb casa which derailed my plans for posting on time last week.
This week's TWD selection is a Mocha-Walnut Marbled Bundt Cake --- sounds pretty delicious doesn't it?
This bundt cake looks unassuming on the outside, but when you cut a slice you will be surprised with this beautiful marbling: the dark cake is flavored with bittersweet chocolate and coffee; light cake is flavored with vanilla.
Finely ground walnuts replace a portion of the flour as a dry ingredient. I added a little of the flour portioned for the recipe (1/4 cup) along with the walnuts to the food processor to grind them, as the flour will prevent the nuts from turning into a nut-butter.I thought this cake was delicious, but was left wanting a bit more walnut flavor. You can definitely taste the chocolate, coffee and vanilla, which is a fantastic combination. If I didn't know about the walnuts, I would have had no idea that ground nuts were added to this cake.
Flavor aside, the cake is super moist, and it is definitely one that will keep for several days.
Setting aside my minor gripe about the flavor, this cake is definitely worth repeating, and I may experiment with a different nut next time.
For the complete recipe, please visit Erin's blog, When In Doubt...Leave It At 350.
23 comments:
Your bundt cake is beautiful! This is a definite "make again" for me!
Ooh, your cake is beautiful! You're right about the walnut flavor - I didn't really taste it either, but I only had two bites so I'll evaluate again tomorrow (my cake is in the freezer right now, serving it tomorrow at a gathering of friends!).
Your cake looks gorgeous! I am with you... I wish the walnut flavor was more prominent, but my husband said it was the first thing he tasted. :)
Delicious! And sorry, I meant to say in the last post that Sienna looks so cute and pathetic with her collar. Hope she is recovering and learning about the how to control her big self! :)
Is that a perfect bundt, or what??? WOW!
...and I looove that last picture with the chocolate puddle! Amazing!
Gorgeous! :) Can't wait to see how it turns out with different nuts!
Beautiful cake!
Those top pictures of the sliced cake are great. The marbling resembles a mushroom cloud...like an explosion of goodness! And the chocolate sauce looks awesome.
ditto what vibi said. chocolate puddles are good!
That's the most perfect bundt cake I ever saw!
Whew, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who didn't taste the punch of walnuts. Your cake certainly looks great!!
Really nice photos! Your cake looks delicious!
What a beautiful cake! Your marbling is just perfect!
Gorgeous pictures- and your marbling is perfection!
Perfection, looks just beautiful!
I thought the outside of your bundt looked perfectly browned. Makes me want to swipe a piece of just the crust.
~ingrid
A beautiful cake - it's perfectly marbled.
It looks delicious with the pool of chocolate sauce! Thanks for the nut butter prevention tip.
Beatiful pictures. Beautiful cake! :)
Thanks for baking with me this week. Your cake looks great :)
Your marbling is BEAUTIFUL!! Love the dome of chocolate in the middle of the cake.
Love that little plate, too.
What a beautiful cake. Mine tasted great, but wasn't so pretty to look at, though the Guinness reduction that I drizzled over it made the appearance not so important. I was surprised at how much walnut flavor I tasted and it might be that I just finely chopped the nuts. The bigger pieces gave off definite flavor when bitten into.
WOW. That is some picture-perfect marbling. Gorgeous!
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