Coffee & Walnut Cake

Satisfy your coffee obsession with this Coffee and Walnut Cake recipe. You can personalise this creation to make it a strong black or a flat white.

Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients

Servings: 6

For the Cake

175 g softened butter

175 g caster sugar

3 medium eggs (beaten)

200 g self raising flour

0.5 tsp salt

1 tsp mixed spice

3 tbsp coffee essence or strong black coffee

3 tbsp milk

1 tbsp molasses

75 g chopped walnuts

For the Icing

50 g soft butter

225 g icing sugar

1-2 tbsp coffee essence or strong black coffee

Steps

STEP 1

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

STEP 2

Gradually beat in the egg.

STEP 3

Fold in the dry ingredients.

STEP 4

Add the coffee, milk, treacle and hazelnuts. Stir well then spoon in to the prepared microwave-safe cake tin.

STEP 5

Place the cake tin on the anti spark ring on wire shelf and cook on CONVECTION 160ºC + WARM MICROWAVE for 30-40 mins.

STEP 6

Allow the cake to cool then cut in half.

STEP 7

Mix all the icing ingredients together until smooth. Sandwich cake together with half the icing then spread the remainder over the top. Decorate with whole hazelnuts.

Coffee & Walnut Cake