Photo: Green Tomato Cake with Brown Butter Icing Recipe
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.
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By afarleylv
las vegas, NV
on December 08, 2011
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suprisingly good. the frosting is unnecessary unless you love super sweet things. the cake is really moist. i reduced the sugar to 2 cups, and did half white / half brown. the best part of this cake is watching people be scared of cake with tomatoes to being wowed by how yummy it is.
By Thellmerell
on November 02, 2011
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You will not believe the flavor. It is awesome and everyone loves it. I freeze several bags of the tomatoes so we an enjoy this all year. It is easy to mix up and use coconut instead of rasions, and different kinds of nuts. It is always good no matter what you mix up:
By Enkida
on October 22, 2011
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I made this cake with a few changes, hence 3 stars, but it was delicious!
Toasted the walnuts in the oven as it was heating, used 1 part oatmeal to 2 parts flour, only 1/2c butter and a pureed granny smith apple, no frosting, craisins instead of raisins, reduced the sugar to 2 cups and feel I could have gone lower still. Split the total sugar quantity with half brown instead of white sugar, reduced the salt to 1/2 tsp, used freshly grated cinnamon and nutmeg, added a tspof orange peel, though I felt I could have added up to 2, used a few more tomatoes than called for and used the smaller, firmer varieties with no trace of ripening at all. I cut them rather large, the end product in the cake was still recognizable as fruit bits. I greased my pan well with margarine and then dusted it with bread crumbs. I baked at the listed temperature for the full amount of time, but after 50 minutes covered the pan with foil to prevent too much browning on top.
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