Recipe: Maple Syrup Cake with Maple Walnut Icing

Maple Syrup Cake with Maple Walnut Icing
rec.food.recipes/JANIC412 (2001)

Cake
4 cup flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup butter, unsalted and softened
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup maple syrup
3/4 cup milk

Icing
2/3 cup butter
2/3 cup maple syrup
4 cup confectioners sugar
2/3 cup walnuts

Cake:
Grease and flour three 9 inch cake pans. Preheat oven to 350.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time.

Mix maple syrup with milk. Add with flour mixture to creamed mixture. Mix well.

Divide into 3 pans. Make a depression in center of batter. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. I cool 15 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool.

Icing:

Cream butter, add sugar and syrup. Beat until smooth. Place cooled cake on plate. Frost with icing and a few chopped nuts. Repeat with next 2 layers. Cover top with rest of icing and nuts.