This walnut cake recipe is one of those easy cakes recipes made in ONE BOWL!

I have to have dessert every night. Yep! It's true. I'm always scrounging for new recipes in my grandma's cookbooks (since that s where most of posts come from). But back-in-the-day they didn't believe in too much "easy" cooking.

I was supposed to be going to Borders to buy a card and I don't know how - but this new cookbook just magnetized to my hand and ended up at the check out counter.

I adapted, tweaked and played with this recipe. AND it came out like something my grandma or auntie's would have cooked. Walnuts are HUGE in Italian dessert recipes. We grind 'em and chop them into tons of Italian cakes and Italian cookie recipes.

This walnut cake recipe is a one layer cake frosting is optional ALTHOUGH I think it's a need-to-be-there. But YOU are the cook and in charge of the kitchen. You get to choose! Yay. My kitchen is one place I get the final say so.

There just aren't that many things to substitute in this walnut cake recipe. However, check out the tips for this recipe below.

And if this wasn't exactly what you were looking for scroll below and see the other Italian cakes I have on my site.
Lisa

In other recipes.

Why? Store out of butter? Please don't. There aren't a lot of ingredients in this recipe. So - I wouldn't sacrifice butter for a chemical laden product.