Maple Cake
Serves 4 | with Crunchy Walnut Topping
This decadent maple cake is just as mouth-watering as it sounds! Topped with a whipped maple-cream cheese frosting and crunchy maple-walnut graham cracker bites, this dessert is a maple lover's heaven!
Ingredients: Vanilla cake mix (sugar, enriched wheat flour, modified corn starch, milk ingredients, salt, wheat starch, canola oil, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cellulose gum, monocalcium phosphate) (milk, wheat) • Maple syrup • Grade A egg • Cream cheese (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, lactic acid, guar gum, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Graham cracker crumbs (enriched wheat flour, sugars (sugar, brown sugar, molasses, glucose-fructose, honey), graham flour, water, vegetable shortening (canola, palm and modified palm oil), baking powder, sodium bicarbonate, salt) (wheat) • Walnuts • Brown sugar (cane sugar, molasses) • Ground cinnamon.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, and wheat.
Ingredients
400 g
Vanilla Baking Mix
(Contains: Wheat, Milk May contain traces of: Fish, Sesame, Mustard, Sulphites, Egg, Tree nuts, Crustaceans, Gluten, Peanuts, Soy)
6 tbsp
Maple Syrup
2 unit(s)
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
2 g
Cinnamon, ground
(May contain traces of: Sesame, Mustard, Sulphites, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Soy, Wheat, Milk, Triticale)
28 g
Walnuts, chopped
(Contains: Walnuts May contain traces of: Sesame, Mustard, Sulphites, Egg, Gluten, Peanuts, Soy, Milk)
½ cup
Graham Cracker Crumbs
(Contains: Wheat, Soy May contain traces of: Sulphites, Egg, Gluten, Soy, Milk, Barley, Oats, Rye)
2 unit(s)
Egg
(Contains: Egg)
2 tbsp
Brown Sugar
(May contain traces of: Fish, Sesame, Mustard, Sulphites, Egg, Tree nuts, Crustaceans, Peanuts, Soy, Wheat, Milk)
Not included in your delivery
⅓ cup
Oil*
0.13 tsp
Salt*
7.66 tbsp
Butter*
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Before starting, preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Remove cream cheese and 8 tbsp butter from the fridge and set aside in a warm place to soften.
- Grease the base and sides of an 8x8-inch metal baking dish with 2 tsp softened butter, then line the base and sides with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang off the sides. (TIP: The overhang will make it easy for you to remove the cake from the pan later.)
- To a large bowl, add eggs, 1/3 cup oil, 2/3 cup water and 2 tbsp maple syrup, then whisk to combine. Add Vanilla Baking Mix and half the cinnamon, then whisk until batter is smooth.
- Transfer cake batter to the prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the middle of the oven for 28-33 min, until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out mostly clean.
- Prepare a parchment-lined plate. Melt 2 tbsp butter in a large non-stick pan over medium-high. Add graham cracker crumbs, walnuts, remaining cinnamon and 1/8 tsp salt. Cook 3-4 min, stirring often, until graham cracker crumbs are toasted. Add 1 tbsp maple syrup, then stir to combine, 1 min.
- Remove from heat, then transfer mixture to the parchment-lined plate. Place in the fridge to cool completely.
- Remove baking dish from oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Meanwhile, in another large bowl, beat remaining softened butter and brown sugar together for 2 min using a wooden spoon or electric hand mixer until combined.
- Beat in remaining maple syrup until smooth. Beat in softened cream cheese and 1/8 tsp salt for 1-2 min, until smooth and combined.
- Once cake has fully cooled, remove from the dish by pulling on the sides of the parchment paper.
- Transfer cake to a serving platter, then discard parchment paper.
- Using the back of a spoon or spatula, spread frosting over cake. Sprinkle crunchy walnut topping over top of cake. Cut into desired number of slices and serve.
