How To Make Apple Polenta Cake with Walnut Oil
Sweet apples, tangy lemon, and citrusy orange adds a fruity medley of flavors and bite to this decadently soft and moist apple polenta cake!
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½tbspbutter
- ½cuppolenta,or yellow cornmeal
- 1cupall-purpose flour
- 1cupbread crumbs
- ¼cupsugar
- 1cupmilk
- 1egg,extra-large
- 2tbsphoney
- 3tbspwalnut oil
- ¼cupdried fruit,chopped
- ½lbapples,Gala, Fuji, or Pink Lady
- ½tspground cinnamon
- 1tbsporange zest,(from 1 orange), grated
- 2tbsplemon zest,(from 1 lemon), grated
- ¼cupwalnuts,chopped
- ½tspsalt
- powdered sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. With softened butter, grease a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom.
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In a large bowl, combine polenta, flour, bread crumbs, and sugar. In another bowl, combine milk, egg, 2 tablespoons of honey, and walnut oil.
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Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients; mix well with a spoon. Fold in the dried fruit, apples, cinnamon, orange zest, lemon zest, chopped walnuts, and salt; stir.
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Pour the mixture into prepared tart pan, then place on a baking sheet .
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Bake for 50 minutes, until golden brown and firm. After 25 minutes, check on cake; it may need to be covered with foil if it is getting too brown.
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Remove from oven, cool slightly, then dust with powdered sugar.
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Drizzle slices with honey, add a sprinkling of whole walnuts, then serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 299.74kcal
- Fat: 8.54g
- Saturated Fat: 1.89g
- Trans Fat: 0.03g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.01g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.93g
- Carbohydrates: 50.61g
- Fiber: 2.85g
- Sugar: 19.76g
- Protein: 6.09g
- Cholesterol: 24.95mg
- Sodium: 267.08mg
- Calcium: 73.58mg
- Potassium: 193.29mg
- Iron: 1.89mg
- Vitamin A: 36.26µg
- Vitamin C: 4.53mg
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