Coffee cake is a great spongy dessert or a treat with the taste of coffee in it. This recipe version also includes a delicious coffee butter icing to complement it!
Ingredients
- 7 ounces (200 grams) of butter
- 7 ounces (200 grams) of caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 7 ounces (200 grams) of self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 2 heaped tablespoons of instant coffee
- 3 1/3 ounces (100 ml) of water
- 3 1/2 ounces (100 grams) of walnut halves (optional)
- 7 ounces (200 grams) of butter
- 10 2/3 ounces (200 grams) of icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons of instant coffee
Steps
1. Pre-heat your oven to 338 degrees F, 170 degrees C, or on gas mark 3.
2. Place wax paper or lining paper around your springform or loose based cake tin. This will prevent the cake sticking to the tin while you remove it after baking.
3. Get a mixing bowl and beat the butter, caster sugar, eggs, baking powder, and flour together.
4. Mix the coffee into the water in a small bowl. Put one tablespoon into the cake mixture. Stir it in and add up to one more tablespoon of the coffee mixture into the batter; save the rest for later. Drop the walnuts into the batter as well, making sure they are in half before you put them in.
5. Pour the cake batter into the tin. Level and even out the top and place it in the oven for 40 minutes. You can tell if it's correctly baked or not by inserting a toothpick or a skewer in the cake& it comes out clean and dry. Remove the cake from the oven and set it aside for cooling.
6. Make the icing by mixing the butter and icing sugar. Pour in the leftover coffee mixture, but stop pouring when you see the color and flavor that you want. Add a little more icing sugar if the mixture seems too soft.
7. Create cake layers. Do this by dividing the cake horizontally. Frost each layer before placing another layer on.
8. Frost the top layer and decorate your cake with walnuts.
9. Finished.
