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Wonderful Walnut Caramel Pie

4 Comments Sweet baking caramel, cream, pie, walnuts

This pie has already been called ‘dirty good’!

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I got this excellent recipe from my dear neighbor. It’s a favorite family recipe from New Zealand and has been for many years. We made this pie on several occasions and each time it was a big hit. Over the years this recipe has been handed to many other friends, neigbours and relatives and we regularly get great feed back about it. I especially like the first bite of this pie when it is still warm and a bit chewy. Yesterday we made it again with the left over walnuts from our Christmas day roast pumpkin soup with walnut relish. When eating this pie, remember that walnuts are good for you!

Ingredients for the walnut pie dough

125 g soft butter

125 g soft light brown sugar (muscovado sugar / witte of gele basterdsuiker)

225 g pastry flour

1 egg (half in the dough, half for egg wash)

1.5 g sea salt

This is what you need for the caramel filling

125 g fine sugar

125 ml heavy cream or whipping cream (we use around 35% fat content)

125 g chopped walnuts

1 tbsp water



For the filling, melt the sugar in a heavy based saucepan on low heat until light brown. Add the tablespoon of water and swirl the pan around to blend it in. Add the cream little by little in the same way, swirling the pan around, rather than stirring (otherwise you might end up with a big lump of sugar that’s hard to dissolve again). Mix the chopped walnuts with the caramel, pour the mixture in a greased dish and leave to cool.

Preheat the oven at 180°C / 355°F. With the flour, butter, sugar, salt and half of the egg make a firm dough. Fill the greased bottom of a shallow pie dish (approx 22 cm or 9 inches) with a bit more than half of the dough and make a rim of about 2 cm. Spread the walnut-caramel evenly in the dish. Role out the rest of the dough and cover the filling. Brush the pie with some of the remaining egg and bake for about 30 to 35 minutes until beautiful brown. Leave to cool for a while because caramel can be very hot but try some while still warm!

Tip: Why not make 6 mini ones (I use 10 cm tartelette molds) and give everybody their own individual pie. Advantage: a little more crust compared to the big pie.

Note: Walnuts are also an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids and have been shown as helpful in lowering cholesterol. I don’t know about the combination with butter and sugar though…;).

Sweet baking caramel, cream, pie, walnuts

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  1. Meryl says

    February 20, 2014 at 02:56

    Gosh this recipe brings back memories of growing up in New Zealand. Sour cream pastry is the yummiest though, it can be used for sweet and savoury pies, it is short and buttery yet flaky, and takes no skills to make. It is out there on the net but the version we all use in Australia/New Zealand now is from Maggie Beer’s website – she is a famous cook down here. Please look it up because it is fail safe, simple to make, yummy, versatile and once you make it, it will become the “go to” pastry recipe for many pies and tarts.
    SR flour is self raising, I think is equivalent to 1 cup flour plus 2 teaspoons of baking powder.

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    • Weekend Bakers says

      February 24, 2014 at 17:50

      Hi Meryl,
      Thank you for this lovely suggestion. We have seen Maggie on TV over here in an episode of Australian Master Chef.
      We will surely try out this pastry recipe.

      Happy baking!

      Greetings from Holland,

      Marieke & Ed

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  2. Carla says

    February 1, 2013 at 13:51

    Hello Marieke,

    What do you use in the Netherlands for heavy cream? I know in England you have single cream, double cream, whipping cream but what is heavy cream?
    I like the look of the finished pie and I love walnuts so I’m thinking about trying to make it myself but I’m not sure what to use for heavy cream. Hopefully you can help me out.

    Carla

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    • Weekend Bakers says

      February 1, 2013 at 14:10

      Hi Carla,
      It is a bit of a term that maybe needs some more explaining. I think heavy cream as a term is used in the US, usually for cream with a fat content of (at least) 36%. The cream in Holland (we also call ‘slagroom’ and use to make whipped cream) in its full fat variety usually contains about 35% fat, (some organic brands go a little bit higher than that). To make a long story short if your (whipping) cream would contain around 35% fat then this would be the option to use.

      Happy baking,

      Marieke

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