Coffee & Walnut Cake

Ieuan says all the time how much he likes coffee and walnut cake so I made one! Turns out it was too ‘coffee-y’ and he didn’t like the walnuts in it, so that was great.. BUT my parents, work colleagues and everyone else who tried it absolutely loved it!

Recipe

For the cake

• 200g butter
• 2 tbsp instant coffee
• 200g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 200g SR flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 100g chopped walnuts

For the icing

• 2tbsp instant coffee
• 150g butter
• 300g icing sugar

Method

Heat oven to 180 degrees celcius

For the cake

• Grease two circle tins
• Dissolve coffee in 1 tbsp boiling water and leave to cool
• Mix butter & sugar until combined
• Mix in eggs one by  one
• Using a spoon/spatula fold in the flour and baking powder
• Stir in the walnuts and coffee
• Divide the mixture between two tins
• Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

For the icing

• Dissolve coffee in 1 tbsp boiling water and leave to cool
• Mix butter until soft
• Mix together butter and icing adding the icing bit by bit
• Stir in the coffee until combined – I didn’t use it all as I didn’t want it too strong
• When cakes are completely cool use half the butter icing to sandwich the two cakes together
• Use the rest of the icing on top of the cake
• I dropped on a bit of the coffee and swirled in into the icing
• Sprinkle over the remaining walnuts

  

  

  

  

  And there we have it your coffee and walnut cake!

  

  

  

  

Beth x