Granny's Black Walnut Pound Cake - It's so Good!!

Granny makes a black walnut pound cake that we all adore! We like it so much we're always asking her to make it for our get togethers here in the Appalachian Mountains.
Here's the recipe:
1 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 cup black walnuts
1 tablespoon black walnut flavoring or extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream butter and shortening well. Add sugar and mix well. Add eggs one at a time mixing after each addition. Sift cake flour and baking powder. Alternately add flour and milk mixing as you go. Mix in black walnuts, flavoring, and vanilla. Pour into greased pan and bake at 325 for 1 and a half hours or till done.
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[@PeriWinkle33957]

My grandma would make each of the grandkids their favorite cake for their birthday. Mine was her black walnut cake with her carmel icing. I loved it. She would make extra icing and pour it very thick onto the cake. Such good memories. Your channel is basically my childhood. I am from Indiana, but all your recipes and culture are so very familiar.

[@audidw9002]

Sounds absolutely delicious!

[@danielt3221]

Just noticing reading thru comments how your videos take people back to their childhood or earlier days. How wonderful that in this busy world people are able tp stop watch someone else's memories and then reflect on their past good times/memories.

[@iviefryar694]

Black walnuts are great in that old-timey fudge made with Hershey's cocoa powder too. I like black walnuts a lot. Thank you for the recipe.😊

[@deborahbaxter27]

My grandparents had black walnut trees in the front yard and one right outside the fence. The car tires helped remove the hulls. I love the stinky smell of those green hulls. I like black walnuts. Black walnut ice cream. yum!!

[@renadenham4250]

Black walnuts make the BEST ice cream!

[@sylviathompson5311]

Black walnut fans here also! My daddy's favorite ice cream! Love the story about Pap and Granny! My daughter and son-in-law have very deep roots in OK. They made a trip to NM with his family recently. My daughter wanted to visit her maternal great- grandparents' graves while there(only family buried in NM. They were from TN and went west to work the harvest). Her husband's grandmother wanted to visit her parents' graves while there also. Lo and behold, they were buried in the same cemetery! My daughter said "Who would have ever thought we would be 800 miles from home standing at my great-grandparents graves and can see your great-grandparents graves!" And both great-grandfathers' names were John.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that!

[@skipsalmon6728]

Oh the memories...My Mom, Dorothy Margaretta Salmon passed in '02. She was also know as "Aunt Dot", Made many pound cakes. We also loved black walnuts and she and I had a favorite ice cream: black walnut. I am going to try your walnut pound cake in her memory! Skip Salmon, Roanoke, VA

[@zazapower]

Here is a big hello from Ontario, Canada. My Mom toured your area with my Grandfather in l922-25 and has your lifestyle in her 'bones', she sang your songs to us and made many of these recipes ... it is very comforting to watch your videos and share your lives with us. Cheers

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Hello and thank you for watching 😀

[@Sweetpea1128]

My mother loved black walnuts. I remember her buying black walnut cookies and black walnut ice cream. I didn’t like or dislike the flavor particularly, but something in the walnuts made sores in my mouth, so I avoided eating them. Maybe it’s an allergy. But I would definitely make that pound cake without the walnuts. It’s a great recipe. I didn’t know the trick about making cake flour. Proves we are never too old to learn! 😃👍🏻❤️

[@karensweet6530]

I love Black Walnuts and Pound Cake! I've cracked many of walnuts in my life for cakes, ice cream, or just to eat. I love anykind of Pound Cake! Thank you Tipper for this recipe! Mouth watering for sure! God Bless. 🙏🙏❤❤

[@brendawoods554]

I remember having black walnuts growing up in Kentucky, we would crack them for our mom and our hands would get died black, but they were so good. I'm sure you shared a generous piece with Granny.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That stain is hard to get off 😀 Thank you Brenda!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

@@CelebratingAppalachia We used to go see an old family friend about 10 miles away and she had a HIUGE black walnut tree in front of her house and we'd get a big box full, hulls and all. Beat the meats out with a hammer and a flatiron.

[@mykidbanana1417]

Do you pre-heat your oven

[@amyfaith2350]

Growing up in Houston, Texas I never had black walnuts until I went to Missouri in my 20's. I love black walnut ice cream!

[@swoodhaus]

Ok, another recipe I am saving in my library! Love pound cake and black walnuts. Just like you, I also love to make recipes that my family has made in years past. Thanks for sharing Tipper!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Sonja 😀

[@jasonrichards3785]

That looks so tasty. I think I had that cake at an event one time but it had maple flavoring with English Walnuts.

[@user-ff8nj8vt7p]

That cake brought back so many memories i love black walnuts when i was a child we had a tree my aunt made them all the time

[@BergenholtzChannel]

Never heard of black walnut flavoring, but I found it on Amazon, so it shows that even at 62, you can learn something new every day! Lol

[@lorettataylor9902]

I like black walnut’s too. The cake looks delicious Tipper.

[@williamwhite1997]

You're as good as anyone doing cooking videos, Tipper. Over Christmas a friend on Facebook showed her pound cakes that she makes for gifts. I had NO idea how many different bundt pans there are, I thought they were all the same. This friend had 6 different pans in different fancy configurations, that really made her cakes stand out.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😀

[@bluebird218bn]

I love black walnuts. This pound cake sounds delicious. My mouth is watering. Lol

[@HK-sw7qr]

My Mom would have Loved this recipe. She loved Black Walnuts. Thank you for sharing!

[@suzannebear4194]

Goodness pound cake is my favorite 😋 hot coffee ☕ & a piece of pound cake I'm in heaven

[@cynthiadavis5515]

When my mama was still alive she would make black walnut cake it was so delicious I came from a family of 11 children also so she would make 2 cakes because we all loved it one of my friends makes a black walnut cake but she uses a white cake mix but it's really good thank you for sharing your recipe God Bless 🙏

[@beckyford6639]

We love black walnuts. We have many older black walnut trees in our yard so we have plenty! My husband makes wood stain out of the black walnut shells.

[@cindypressley4285]

In addition to being a wonderful cake to eat it is also a beautiful cake to serve! It is one of the loveliest cakes to serve!

[@ColKorn1965]

One of my many "jobs" helping grandma was cracking walnuts or hickory nuts and getting the " goody" out.😊

[@jewelsmith5365]

I love Black walnuts. Will make this cake.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Hope you enjoy!

[@hawkrose8403]

I absolutely LOVE black walnuts!

[@aujkalenic4203]

Yes black walnuts are a unique flavor and we have a million memories of fetching, drying them out, cracking them and then the reward of eating them in Mom's famous chocolate fudge.

[@janemartin229]

Ollie's discount store sells small bags of shelled black walnuts. A tip for adding eggs one at a time is to put them in a liquid measuring cup (with a spout) and you can just pour them in. As long as you don't break the yolks, they stay separate and you can control how many go in. Your cake turned out beautiful!

[@waynejackson2182]

Hello this is Wayne from Colorado and I would love to say what an inspiration that you your husband and your daughters are. I’m getting close to retirement and your life style is what I would love to have. Going from a hustle bustle lifestyle to a more relaxed kind of lifestyle,not saying you folks aren’t hard working but it’s different from what I’m used to. Keep up the great videos!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Wow thank you Wayne! So glad you enjoy our videos. I hope you get to retire soon 😀

[@MsSupreme11]

Thanks for talking about the black walnuts; my Gram used them in her jello dessert which I had not had since I was a little girl. You said Walmart had them which I ordered and received. Couldn’t wait to open the package and taste them after all these years and it brought tears to my eyes; the wonderful memory of her dessert and that flavor. Thanks again for the memories❤

[@davidgibson9866]

I still make foods from my childhood that my family made in memory of them. I often wondered how far back those recipes go…..my g-grandma always told me stories of her grandfather 1861-1865 when he was a POW and I was shocked that I was talking to someone who had spoken with a CW veteran.

[@andreamills5852]

Awesome ! Say hello to Granny for us.😁

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I will 😀

[@631959]

Love, Love, Love Black Walnut ! Thanks !!!

[@deewinston5651]

Tipper, I’ve never tasted Black Walnuts but I love most all nuts. I’ll have to buy some. I’m actually getting my eggs and butter to room temperature, to make my Aunt Merle’s Pound cake. We’re going to have a family get together and my daughter in love asked me if I would make it to go with some strawberries. I love making it because it brings such wonderful memories of us sitting around the table,drinking coffee, and eating her pound cake. Thank you for sharing your recipe.❤️

[@foghornleghorn262]

Apple Dapple cake is also an Applachian cake that many folks have never tried. Sooo good.

[@lindastansbury2067]

I was so excited that you had a recipe featuring black walnuts. When I was 9 or 10 years old my Dad gave me an allowance of 25 cents a week. I loved to read and I loved black walnut ice cream so I worked out a routine - Every Saturday afternoon I'd walk downtown to the pharmacy and take my time, very carefully choosing which comic book I most wanted to spend 15 cents on, then I'd go over to the ice cream counter on the other side of the pharmacy and spend 10 cents on a double scoop black walnut ice cream cone to enjoy on my walk back home. To me, there was no more satisfying way to spend my time and my 25 cents. This is one of my most favorite childhood memories.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Great memories 😀

[@janh5199]

I love black walnuts. My favorite ice cream is black walnut ice cream.

[@ramonahierholzer3163]

Black walnuts are my FAVORITE!! But, I did grow up in WV. 🥰 Thanks for sharing this recipe!

[@joybartlett9784]

My mother and grandmother used to make black walnut cake. They would tell us if we picked out the walnuts they would make us a Cake. They are wonderful. Love them.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That was good payment for all that work 😀

[@marthakemp127]

Love black walnut cake and black walnut ice cream.

[@bakerbaggertagger]

I love black walnuts! When I was a girl there was a season where we could get black walnut ice cream. The one time of the year where I didn't have to have chocolate.

[@rlleis]

My mom made this cake without the walnuts. We call it "mom's walnut no walnut cake". She always frosted it with a brown sugar caramel icing and it was always requested for our birthday cakes - yum! I must try this with walnuts.

[@Needlewich]

I remember those black walnuts with that hard shell. We would take a rock and crack those nuts and dig out the meat! I love them !! Your cake looks great! Going to be making it!! Thanks!!! God bless and love to you and your Pressley fam! 💕🤗🙏🏻

[@gailsears2913]

The top is my favorite part of any pound cake. Thanks for the recipe.

[@tessab.2065]

We love black walnuts. I'll be making this. Thank you for sharing.

[@karenbrewer5864]

I can remember my mother using a wooden mallet and getting the skin off the walnuts, then she would let them dry a little before trying to crack them to keep hands from getting so dark. We would sit on this big flat rock and crack out walnuts to have for fudge for Christmas. We of course wanted to eat them as we cracked them out. 😅 That was a great tip on the cake flour. Swansdown was the name of that flour. That cake looked so good. The crunchy part is my favorite. All I needed was a cup of coffee and a piece of that cake. 😊 Thanks for all your recipes.

[@KyDove8]

We have a black walnut tree. We usually sell them to the Amish. I used to hang a few bags to cure, crack them, then pick them out while watching TV. I made pies and used them in cakes. Very good flavor. I'm not up to the process these days. The cake looks good! ❤️

[@chelym4094]

WOW! I grew up eating black walnut cookies and can’t wait to try this cake! Thanks, Tipper!

[@lindahays8444]

My mother loved black walnuts.

[@miss24]

We have a black walnut tree and I get them and dry them out and crack them every year. Can't wait to try this recipe for sure! I'm like you I love them.

[@nevadadiana6453]

Like you, I'm a real fan of black walnuts. My immediate family always had access to walnut trees, and whenever we were going to visit more distant kin, who didn't have the good fortune to live near walnut trees, Momma would always break and pick out a big lot of them to take as gifts. The nuts were more valuable than gold to Daddy's momma and his aunts and all. Grandma put the in her tea cakes. Yum yum!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

They are so good 😀

[@lewiemcneely9143]

@@CelebratingAppalachia Seems like I can remember a maple flavored icing on something but that was back in the 1800's.

[@cynthiapate9138]

My favorite cake is pound cake. This one looks great. Can’t wait to make it.

[@bobsternvogel5550]

Swans Down Cake Flour is the product name you were trying to remember. Your mention of Dot and her husband owning a store remnded me of my mother's tales of going to her grandfather's grocery "down the shore" in Baltimore during summer vacations. She loved the fact her grandpa would always let her take a bottle of pop from the cooler whenever she dropped by!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Bob 😀

[@mitzievans5037]

I love black walnuts!!! Need to find the recipe Mother would make. It was a brown sugar pound cake, FULL of black walnuts. If I can't find it, I'll have to definitely try yours Tipper as it looks delicious! Now you have me craving black walnuts.

[@sharonharrison3611]

Black walnuts are my favorite. I used to crack them out and make my fresh apple cakes with them. I always wore rubber gloves to get the hulls off and let the walnuts dry out in my basement for several months. Then id crack them out. Time consuming job, but they are well worth it. My cakes turn out great if i do say so myself. Haha.

[@tracyharmon6119]

My number one favorite pound cake!!

[@lindareinking5326]

Not crazy about black walnuts but remember gathering black walnuts, staining our hands. My dad liked them . If make it, I'll use English walnuts. Great memory though. Thanks for sharing. ❤❤

[@diannegrimes1471]

I love black walnuts. I'm going to have to try this. My husband is not such a fan, that's more for me😘

[@josiecardenas4440]

Thank you Tipper looks very good I am not much for baking . But I will share this with my sister she love to bake . God bless you and your family

[@judyabernathy80]

Oh my, that is one gorgeous, tasty, cake. I love black walnut flavor. ♥️🙏🏼♥️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Judy 😀

[@kathrynreed9724]

Thank you for this recipe, and I love black walnuts. I remember having black walnuts at my grandparents. They had a lot of the trees on the farm. They are so hard to pick out, but so rewarding. It could be my favorite nut, but haven’t had them in years now. I love to use them in divinity too. I am also happy about learning how to make cake flour too. I didn’t know that.

[@KathysTube]

I haven't had a black walnut cake in a really long time...I loved them! Thanks Tipper 🤗❤️

[@lauraautry6992]

My mother in law used to make a fresh black walnut cake every year and it became one of my favorites . Thank you for sharing 🤗

[@sbishop16]

I love black walnuts and pound cake and this looks delicious!

[@vickyrhinehardt1543]

We had a black walnut tree growing up. My mom made and sold the cakes. Hers was a layer cake with a special icing. We kids broke open the nuts on top of the well cap with a piec of a broken brick. Mom couldn’t afford the long lasting walnut stain and sell cakes to city ladies for their bridge parties as they would not see her hands a clean. All our church people would just say, you been cracking black walnuts!” They understood 😂♥️

[@suzanneh.3822]

I love black walnuts too. My daddy shared black walnut ice cream with me when I was a little girl. I was hooked. Partly because it was delicious and partly because he loved it. I love your channel.

[@ladyemerygizer]

Looks yummy. I could actually smell the black walnuts. My mom used to make them too. They tend to grow at the edge of woods where I grew up in Lincoln county but most has been cut down. I'm blessed to have a small tree here in Burke county. I think I'll go pound till I get a cup and make it. Lol. Thanks!

[@HolmansHomestead]

This looks so good.Love black walnuts,and love the stories behind the recipes.

[@marieparks5674]

I’m going to try that pound cake, I love black walnuts. Brings a lot of wonderful childhood memories. We had a Hugh black walnut tree, and dad would put the walnuts in the driveway, so cars would run over them and knock the outer shell off. My job was to cure them and then pick out the nutmeat.

[@larryeddings3185]

I really love black walnuts! Pound cake with those wonderful black walnuts sounds like a match made in heaven.

[@yvonnemcmahan9037]

I love any cake with walnuts or pecans in it

[@rosalielindley3583]

Black walnut ice cream. Yum!

[@lisahenderson7450]

I absolutely love your videos! They are so inspiring ❤️ and encouraging to enjoy the simple things and enjoy every moment ❤️ Thank you so much for your wonderful videos. I've tried some of your recipes and getting ready to make the orange bread 🍞 😋

[@myrthagunter4141]

Black walnuts with a little bit of salt is my favorite way to eat them . David makes a black walnuts pound cake at least once a year . So Good ! Thanks Tipper 🌺

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I like them with salt too 😀

[@margieg1908]

My Mother in law. We called her Granny too.She made black walnut cakes. Every time there was a benefit for some one in the community.Someone giving the benefit would go to Granny's house and ask her to make a black walnut cake for it. The bids would go very high .up in the 100 dollars.Thats why everyone wanted Granny's cake for the benefit. They were truly good.Granny is gone now she passed away at 96,Her birthday will be this Feb.26 she would have Been 105 this year. We sure do miss her. ❣️ Thanks for sharing your wonderful videos . They make me think of good times past💞🙏🏼

[@christinej2358]

Looks delicious! Thank you for sharing!

[@frankscarborough1428]

Sounds delicious thanks Tipper

[@erinlogan8032]

Looks really delicious

[@annhendrix1268]

I used to be so excited as a kid at Christmas because our nextdoor neighbor Mrs. Porter would bring us one of her special pound cakes. I never did get her recipe but decided I wanted to try to make one this year for our Christmas and bought some Black Walnuts. Tonight your recipe for one came up randomly on KZbin so guess I will be trying it. 😊I'm betting it is close to tasting the same as the one back in the late 50s early 60s.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I hope you enjoy it!

[@janetlavoie2441]

Beautiful cake.

[@lindapetersen1800]

Am glad you printed the recipe down here for us older Folks in internet land !!! I told Ed Kirkpatrick about the music that the girls and you play !!! I call him Mr. Ed he sent to me a song he had done for me @Ed Kirkpatrick "Song for Linda Peterson and another one" !!! It is sweet he did it when I was so cold at Christmas time !!! So gave a Shout out for you and the Girls !!!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Linda! We appreciate you 😀

[@nancyhight8407]

Thanks for the tip on making cake flour.

[@3251JOE]

Of all the wonderful treats Mom-mom made every year for Christmas, my favorite was her black walnut cake. She baked hers in a tube pan like you, but she iced her cake with vanilla American buttercream icing (butter, powdered sugar, a little milk and vanilla flavoring). Although I love English walnuts, I much prefer black walnuts in cookies, sugar or chocolate chip, cakes and even just to eat plain.

[@jennifermiller7813]

Thank you. Thank you thank you for sharing this. My Aunt made a walnut cake but not a pound cake and I love pound cake so much. Will try this

[@paulmartinez4972]

I love black walnut pound cake!! I'm sure yours is fantastic, Tipper.

[@mstinalouise67]

My sweet Daddy used to crack black walnuts for us to use in fudge, my mommy's applesauce cake.. * christmas cake every year... that's for sweet memories ❤

[@sheryleldridge6597]

I remember my grandmother had a black walnut tree. Love them. Pound cake looks absolutely delicious 😋 Have a Blessed Day.

[@brendaschenck859]

Brings back memories of my mama making a black walnut cake in her large cast iron skillet…daddy cracked lots of black walnuts & sold a lot too…mama usually kept a lot of bags of them in the freezer….I love them & would eat them but they would put blisters around my tongue….but I still ate them…lol…fresh pineapple does that to my tongue too…your cake looked really good 😊

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

What great memories Brenda 😀

[@jenniferchristenson1272]

Looks really pretty and delicious

[@marisueharves3493]

Thank you so very much for sharing such a delicious family recipe! It brought back memories of my great-grandmother's black walnut cake with frosting. She served it every Thanksgiving at my grandmother's big farmhouse where our family gathered to celebrate the holiday. Those were the days! Thank you once again and may God continue to bless you and your family.

[@sutdave1]

Thank you for sharing this. I spent about a month last fall hulling and cracking walnuts and i have a bunch vacume sealed in the freezer for just a recipe like this.

[@garybrunet6346]

Thanks for showing us another great recipe. I will make this minus the nuts,😊🇨🇦

[@peggycollins1892]

Yum. I love a pound cake and black walnuts. I'll have to try this.

[@yvonnehouston4893]

Thank you for sharing your family’s recipe with us! Yum! I will definitely be making this cake hopefully over the weekend! Always look forward to your videos!

[@sueshughart7006]

Going to make this very soon. I have some black walnuts in the refrigerator. I love black walnuts and am always looking for a good recipe so thank you!

[@whyzup6593]

My family would "marble" it with a honey crunch/crumble. The only time we'd fight over the blackberry jam. Thanks for sharing!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Yum 😀

[@daisymay317]

Have never heard of this before. Sounds nice❤️

[@tinachambers4887]

Hi Tipper an Granny have a day love from TEXAS

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😀

[@amymahers2957]

Cannot beat a pound cake! Yum!