Green Tomato Cake with Brown Butter Icing

(from abehn’s recipe box)

Source: yahoo recipe group

Categories: Dessert

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 2 1/2 cups sugar 3 large eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 2 1/2 cups finely diced green tomatoes
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 deg. Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan.

  2. Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until creamy.

  3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

  4. In a medium bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt,

  5. and nutmeg.

  6. Gradually add to butter mixture, beating well. (Batter will be

  7. soft.) Stir in tomatoes and walnuts. Spoon batter into prepared

  8. pan. Bake for 70 to 75 minutes, or until a tester inserted in

  9. center comes out clean. Let cool in pan on wire rack

  10. for 10 minutes. Remove from pan, and let cool completely.

  11. Spoon Browned Butter Icing over cake.

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