Must-Try Nut Recipes

Hickory Nut Cake

Audrey and Robert Biersach of Columbus, Wisconsin, know their hickory nuts. They added the precious nut with the buttery taste to the inside of this dense cake. A bite of her own cake is probably the only thing that will— temporarily— stop Audrey from spreading the word about hickories. "I love to talk about hickory nuts; they're just wonderful," she says. Every fall, Audrey and Robert collect shagbark hickories from the wild until it's too cold to go out. Audrey tosses them in salads, casseroles, pies, cakes and fudge, but she keeps some to sell at the Dane County Farmers' Market in Madison on summer Saturdays.