AUNT LUE'S WALNUT CAKE

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Ingredients:

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2 Cups  Flour

2 Cups  Sugar

1       8oz can crushed pineapple in it's own juice or sweetened

2       eggs

2 tsp   soda

1 tsp   vanilla

2 cups  crushed walnuts - reserve 1/2 cup for top

 

Instructions:

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

 

Mix all ingredients except the nuts together.  Use the whole can of

pineapple juice and all.  Mix by hand or use mixer on med until all

mixed.  Add 1 and 1/2 cups of nuts by hand.  Grease and flour a 9 by 13

pan and pour batter in, bake for 45 minutes.  Allow cake to cool at

least 20 minutes and remove from pan.  If cake is hard to remove use egg

turner to help loosen.

 

Icing

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2 Cups   powdered sugar

1 stick  butter (room temp)

1        8oz package cream cheese (room temp)

reserved 1/2 cup walnuts

 

Use mixer and mix everything except the walnuts together.  Icing should

be very creamy.  Spread over top and sides of cake.  Sprinkle reserved

walnuts on top.

 

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From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)