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Adding nuts to pound cake


Chufi

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I'm making a trifle, and to make the cake base a little more interesting I want to add ground pistachios to the cake. I have a good basic pound cake recipe that calls for 2 cups of flour. Can I just use ground nuts for some of the flour? How much?

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I have a cake recipe that calls for 1/4 cup of almonds (ground fine) to 1-1/4 cups of flour. It's not a pound cake, but it has much the same texture -- rich and fairly dense -- so that might be a starting point.

One trick I learned from this recipe is to process the nuts with some of the sugar, which keeps them from turning into nut butter before they're fine enough.

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Surprisingly, adding an equal part of nut paste (keeping the pound cake ratio, 1:1:1:1:etc) works awesome. You'll just need to add a bit of baking powder (around 3-5% of the flour weight) and you're golden.

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