Green Tomato Cake with Brown Butter Icing

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Show: Paula's Home CookingEpisode: You Won't Believe It

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (50)

RECIPE
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Cook Time:
1 hr 15 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
1 cake

Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: 10 min
Cook: 1 hr 15 min
Total:: 1 hr 35 min

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Ingredients

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

Directions

Browned Butter Icing, recipe follows

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan.

Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

In a medium bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. Gradually add to butter mixture, beating well. (Batter will be soft.) Stir in tomatoes, raisins, and walnuts. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake for 70 to 75 minutes, or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan, and let cool completely. Spoon Browned Butter Icing over cake.

Browned Butter Icing:

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

1 cup confectioners' sugar

In a medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter. Cook 6 to 8 minutes, or until butter is lightly browned. Whisk in confectioners' sugar until smooth.

Yield: about 1 cup

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recipe Green Tomato Cake with Brown Butter Icing
Marilyn Dearborn Heights, MI 12-08-2009
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Awesome!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I was so surprised at how great this cake tasted and how easy it was to make. I did substitute 1/2 cup canola oil for one of... the sticks of butter, and it came out perfect ("all butter' cakes and quick breads have a tendency to slightly burn and get too dark in the oven, I have found, especially if they bake for a long time). What is even better is that I couldn't find my bundt pan, so I made "cake muffins" instead, in a regular sized muffin pan! This worked out great, as it was easy to give some of them away as little presents (who wants to give away half a cake!?), and they were a big hit. I filled each paper cupcake liner almost to the top (leaving about 1/4 inch), and they were the perfect size, with nice rounded tops. Baked them at 350 degrees for 35-37 minutes, and I got 23 little cakes. Instead of the browned butter icing, I sprinkled each cake-muffin top with turbinado (raw) sugar before I put them in the oven. It gave them a nice, sweet, crunchy top. Now I can't wait to try out some of my other favorite bundt cake recipes in a muffin pan! Thank you, Paula, for another winning recipe! Read more
recipe Green Tomato Cake with Brown Butter Icing
SHELLY Norfolk, VA 09-11-2009
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Big Hit!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Every summer my church has a tomato themed potluck and this was my contribution this year. I made the cake as directed but... left off the glaze. I know it's a treat but I just couldn't bring myself to add more butter to it. I dusted the top with a little powered sugar - just enought to make the edges look pretty. It was a huge hit! This is definitely a keeper!Read more
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sayuri kettering, OH 09-10-2009
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IT IS SO GOOD
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I have so many tomatoes this summer and needed new recipe to use them. I did not have walnuts, but came out so good. My... boyfriend said that was one of the best cake he has ever had! His late mother use to own bakery, so he knows his baked stuff....I might keep baking this every week until I have no more tomatoes....It is that good........I love this cake!!Read more
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Erika North Mankato, MN 08-23-2009
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Wow! SO GOOD!!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This cake is amazing! I'm usually a cake mix girl, but I had tons of tomatoes and I was feeling adventurous. This cake was... easy to make, I had all the ingredients on hand (except cinnamon - I used some cardamom and allspice instead.) I also subbed 1/2 cup of canola oil for one stick of butter in the batter. The icing gave the cake the perfect "salty - sweet" flavor and it came out perfectly with no lumps. I think the key is adding a little sugar at a time and whisking constantly. I love, Love, LOVE this recipe!Read more
recipe Green Tomato Cake with Brown Butter Icing
Mary Lisle, NY 08-11-2009
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Yummy but needs chocolate!
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

The rain has been awful in the Northeast and I needed to pick all of my green tomatoes due to rotting plants. This cake is... too big for our family of 3 so I cut the recipe in half and baked it in a smaller bundt pan. That took about 45 minutes. It was a good cake but I think I would substitute the raisins for those mini chocolate chips. Mmmmm...... Read more
recipe Green Tomato Cake with Brown Butter Icing
Diana Coeur d' Alene, ID 08-05-2009
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delicious
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I make this cake for a dinner party. It was a big hit. I will make it over and over.