Green Tomato Cake With Brown Butter Icing

Submitted by GingerlyJ

"This unique and amazing cake recipe came from paula deen"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 1 cake
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 1 cup 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 raisin
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

directions

1. Browned Butter Icing, recipe follows.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan.
3. Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. 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.
5. Browned Butter Icing:.
6. 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter.
7. 1 cup confectioners' sugar.
8. 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.
9. Yield: about 1 cup.