Black Pepper Spice Cake

A simple bundt cake, yet it has a very interesting flavor. It contains toasted walnuts, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and black pepper. A really nice cake to have with a hot drink this holiday season.

Ingredients:

1 1/2C buttermilk
3 large eggs
1t vanilla extract
4oz almond oil (or any other flavorless oil)
4oz soft butter
2C all purpose flour
1C ground toasted walnuts
1t baking powder
1C sugar
1t baking soda
1/2t salt
2t ground cinnamon
1t ground cardamom
1/2t ground cloves
1t ground black pepper


Put the oil, soft butter, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl, and cream, slowly adding the eggs one at a time, then the buttermilk. Scale out the dry ingredients in one bowl, and add them to the mixing bowl, till just combined.
Pour into a greased bundt pan ( the one above is a Christmas wreath, which was colored with food coloring after a glaze was added).
Bake for about 1 hour at 350F. Cool and glaze with 1C confectioner's sugar and 2T lemon juice.