Here’s a recipe that any old-time Southern cook has to have in her collection. This is a black walnut pound cake recipe like our grandmothers used to make, and is at least 100 years old. You can serve this cake with our without an icing, but it’s amazing by itself. Nothing beats a nice, warm slice of old fashioned black walnut cake on a chilly autumn day. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- ▢ — ½ lb margarine or butter
- ▢ — ½ cup Crisco
- ▢ — 5 eggs
- ▢ — 3 cups plain flour
- ▢ — 3 cups sugar
- ▢ — 1 tsp vanilla
- ▢ — 1 tsp baking powder
- ▢ — ½ tsp black walnut flavoring
- ▢ — 1 cup evaporated milk
- ▢ — 1 cup chopped black walnuts
Instructions
- ▢ — Cream margarine/butter and shortening.
- ▢ — Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
- ▢ — Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well.
- ▢ — Add flavoring and beat well.
- ▢ — Mix ¼ cup of flour with nuts, and sift remaining flour with baking powder and alternately add with milk, starting and ending with flour.
- ▢ — Fold in floured nuts. Do not beat!
- ▢ — Bake in greased and floured tube pan for 1 hour and 20 minutes in 325 degree oven.
Nutrition
- Calories 556
- Total Fat 34.95 g
- — Unsaturated Fat 24.3 g
- — Saturated Fat 6.7 g
- Cholesterol 262 mg
- Sodium 189 mg
- Carbohydrates 51.4 g
- — Net Carbs 49.8 g
- — Fiber 1.6 g
- Sugars 26 g
- Protein 10.2 g
Rebecca
March 23, 2026 12:30 pmThis recipe never states when to add the sugar, eggs & flavoring mixture to the flour mixture.