Walnut Squares Recipe In You Magazine 22Nd October

[FoxLee2]

I was looking through this recipe and noticed that it required 800 gms of walnut halves plus some pieces. I buy walnuts in 100 gm bags to snack on and they cost £1.30 so 8 times that would come to £10.40 + an extra bag for the pieces. The recipe also required butter, ground almonds, a vanilla pod, six large eggs, double cream and yoghurt. Factor in your gas or electricity and I think it comes to a hefty price for a home baked cake. Anyone tempted to try it?

[dannyk13]

800 Gms of walnut halves seems a lot, might it be a typo for 80gms.

[Islay]

Not surprised as the blurb says he is obessed with nuts!
Yes i would give it a go - have a look at the health food shops and see if you can buy your nuts cheaper

[Islay]

Danny its not a typo as the instructions tell you to split it into different amounts

[Islay]

Tesco have 20% off when you buy 3 or more at the moment.

[dannyk13]

There are some recipes for walnut cakes here and the average is 85gms

[Islay]

Danny here you are - have a look at the instructions
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-4993878/Deeply-Danish-downtime-Walnut-squares.html

[dannyk13]

Ah! serves 12, that explains it,

[Islay]

Lol also danish my SIL assures me walnuts are dirt cheap over there!

[follyfancier]

I would warn you to be careful when buying nuts from a health food shop, I did that a few years ago ,I bought some organic cashew nuts but did not find out until much later that they had been infested with larder beetles , they got into nearly everything else like pasta and biscuits and it took a long time to get rid of them all

[FoxLee2]

Islay - if you do have a go at making it, let us know how it turns out.

[Islay]

OK

[gingejbee]

If you were to plan on making a walnut cake, you would buy a decent size bag of walnut halves (say 500gm). Small "snack-size" packs of anything are a notoriously expensive way to purchase foodstuffs