Walnut Cake

Ingredients

Cake Mixture 5 eggs, separated 1.5 cups grated walnuts 1 cup grated almonds 1 cup castor sugar 250 unsalted butter 0.5 tsp vanilla 0.5 tsp cinnamon powder 0.5 tsp cloves powder 2 cups self-raising flour

Syrup 2 cups water 2 cups castor sugar 4 pieces of cloves 1 cinnamon stick 1 slice of lemon with its peel

Method

Cake Mixture

• Preheat the over to 180C.
• Put butter in the cake tin into the oven to melt it.
• Beat egg white in a bowl until light and fluffy.
• In a large separate bowl, place the butter (butter should be melted by now), sugar and egg yolks and beat with electric mixer until sugar is dissolved.
• Add cinnamon, vanilla and cloves and mix well.
• Add flour and beat well.
• Add the egg whites and beat well.
• Add the walnuts and almonds and mix well.
• Pour the mixture into the cake tin and place in the oven.  Cook for 45 ~ 60 minutes until the mixture does not stick when a skewer is placed in the middle. (This will be the time to prepare syrup.)
• Take tine out and cut the cake into diamond shapes but leave cake in the tine and let it cool.

Syrup

• Place all ingredients in a saucepan and stir over low heat for 15 ~ 20 minutes.
• Pour hot syrup over cool cake in the tin and leave until cake is cool enough to remove from the tin.