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Walnut Cake Recipes and Other Easy Walnut Recipes

August 27, 2019
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From dinner to dessert, healthy ways to put more walnuts in your diet.
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Greek Walnut Spice Cake

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A rich, flavorful syrup infuses this Mediterranean-inspired walnut coffee cake with the bright aroma of oranges and cloves. Heart-healthy olive oil and whole-grain barley flour add subtle complexity and texture to this nutty treat.

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Chard with Shallots, Pancetta & Walnuts

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For this simple sautéed chard, flavored with rich-tasting pancetta and walnuts, we prefer the milder taste of green chard.

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Pork Roast with Walnut-Pomegranate Filling

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Pomegranates become available in late fall just in time to grace holiday tables--all too often as decorations. For this festive roast the fruit is used in three forms: as a thick, sweet molasses for the filling plus whole seeds and juice for the sauce. Slicing through the roast reveals a colorful pinwheel of crushed walnuts mixed with the pomegranate molasses.

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Maple-Walnut Tapioca Pudding

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Turn comforting tapioca pudding into a special dessert for two by spiking it with pure maple syrup and finishing it with a simple spiced maple-nut topping.

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Squash Rounds with Shallot-Cider Sauce

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A richly flavored caramelized shallot-cider sauce turns baked butternut squash rounds into a beautiful starter or side dish for a fall party.

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Warm Green Bean Salad with Toasted Walnuts

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This colorful salad makes a fine prelude to a hearty dinner. Walnut oil's distinctive flavor delivers a rich hit to the dressing.

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Vanilla Bean Flans with Agave Syrup & Caramelized Walnuts

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This melt-in-your-mouth custard is delicately flavored with vanilla bean and lightly sweetened with agave syrup. Crunchy caramelized walnuts are an addictively delicious topping. Adapted from Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta: Recipes from the World-Famous Spa (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008) by Deborah Szekely and Deborah M. Schneider with Chef Jesús González, Chef of La Cocina Que Canta.

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Cranberry-Orange-Nut Cookies

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Crisp, moist and chewy, this cookie created by Georgene Egri of Walnut Creek, California, has the essential ingredients for the holidays: citrus, nuts and cranberries. These cookies travel well for gift-giving and lunchboxes.

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Walnut Cake with a Hint of Rosemary

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Rosemary contributes an ever-so-subtle fragrance to this luxurious cake. Whole-wheat flour blends in seamlessly because its nutty flavor complements the walnuts.

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Blue Cheese-Walnut Green Beans

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Tender-crisp green beans tossed with creamy blue cheese and topped with toasted walnuts pair well with grilled steak or chicken.

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Pear & Blue Cheese Flatbread

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The classic combination of pears, walnuts and blue cheese isn't just for salad. Toss the same ingredients onto purchased whole-wheat pizza dough and make your own gourmet flatbread at home. Any type of ripe, firm pear will work--red pears look great.

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Cider-Glazed Roots with Cinnamon Walnuts

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Here we roast a variety of roots with a brown sugar-cider glaze. Make them instead of candied sweet potatoes at your Thanksgiving celebration. If you include red beets, the whole dish will take on a gorgeous ruby hue.

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Chocolate Cookie & Walnut Crunch Ice Cream

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Chocolate wafer cookies and toasted walnuts are a delightful way to jazz up chocolate ice cream.

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Caramelized Onion Lasagna

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This unusual lasagna with portobello mushrooms, sweet onions, spinach and Gorgonzola cheese has a rich, complex flavor. It's also great with goat cheese instead of Gorgonzola, if you prefer.

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Blueberry Tart with Walnut Crust

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For this tart a few tablespoons of maple syrup sweeten the blueberry topping and round out the flavor of the cream filling.

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Cranberry, Cherry & Walnut Marmalade

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Fresh cranberries get crunch from walnuts and an infusion of sweetness from dried cherries in this take on a classic marmalade. Leftovers are great on a turkey sandwich.

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Apricot-Walnut Cereal Bars

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Crisp and chewy, this bar is a good-for-you alternative to store-bought cereal bars. The secret ingredient, silken tofu, will give your day a protein-packed start. The recipe also works with other fruit-and-nut combinations.

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Zucchini-Walnut Loaf

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Lisa Asuncion Feliciano of Manila, Philippines, shared this recipe in our Kitchen to Kitchen department. She recommends making extra loaves when zucchini is abundant because they freeze well.

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Stir-Fried Chicken with Wilted Spinach & Tamari Walnuts

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The joy of stir-frying is that an interesting dish like this cooks in mere minutes. The only trick is to have all the ingredients prepped and ready to add. Once you start stir-frying you can't afford to lose time mincing and measuring.

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Baked Apples with Dried Fruits & Walnuts

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If you can manage to save one, there's nothing like a cold baked apple for breakfast, topped with a dollop of vanilla yogurt or served in a pool of fresh cold milk. The best part is the nut-and-fruit mixture nestled in the apple's core. Don't be surprised if the apples split a little--or sometimes a lot--as they bake. To reduce the chance of splitting, use Golden Delicious apples. Another trick: score the apple along the circumference, as described below, to create a sort of fault line where it can expand, lessening the likelihood of a split elsewhere.

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1 of 20 Greek Walnut Spice Cake
2 of 20 Chard with Shallots, Pancetta & Walnuts
3 of 20 Pork Roast with Walnut-Pomegranate Filling
4 of 20 Maple-Walnut Tapioca Pudding
5 of 20 Squash Rounds with Shallot-Cider Sauce
6 of 20 Warm Green Bean Salad with Toasted Walnuts
7 of 20 Vanilla Bean Flans with Agave Syrup & Caramelized Walnuts
8 of 20 Cranberry-Orange-Nut Cookies
9 of 20 Walnut Cake with a Hint of Rosemary
10 of 20 Blue Cheese-Walnut Green Beans
11 of 20 Pear & Blue Cheese Flatbread
12 of 20 Cider-Glazed Roots with Cinnamon Walnuts
13 of 20 Chocolate Cookie & Walnut Crunch Ice Cream
14 of 20 Caramelized Onion Lasagna
15 of 20 Blueberry Tart with Walnut Crust
16 of 20 Cranberry, Cherry & Walnut Marmalade
17 of 20 Apricot-Walnut Cereal Bars
18 of 20 Zucchini-Walnut Loaf
19 of 20 Stir-Fried Chicken with Wilted Spinach & Tamari Walnuts
20 of 20 Baked Apples with Dried Fruits & Walnuts

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