Coffee and Walnut Cake
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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
  • 200g unsalted butter
  • 100g dark brown sugar
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 50ml strong shot of black coffee/ espresso
  • 150g self raising flour
  • 50g walnuts - ground
  • *For the frosting*
  • 150g icing sugar
  • 75g unsalted butter
  • 25g ground walnuts
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 40ml espresso coffee
Instructions
  1. Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC
  2. Grease and line 2 x 8inch cake tins
  3. Cream the butter and sugar together for a a few minutes until pale and creamy
  4. Add the eggs and beat well
  5. Add the cooled espresso and a spoonful of flour and beat again
  6. Now fold in the flour until combined
  7. Divide the batter between the two cake tins, and bake in the oven for 20-25 mins until risen and cooked right through
  8. Leave to cool before removing from the tins
  9. *Frosting*
  10. Beat the butter until soft
  11. Carefully add the icing sugar - you might want to do this in two parts - and beat until soft and creamy
  12. Add all but 1 tbsp of the ground walnuts, milk and coffee and beat to make a nice consistency
  13. Now spread half the frosting onto the two sponges and sandwich together and add the rest of the frosting onto the top of the cake
  14. Sprinkle the rest of the ground walnuts onto the frosting for a final decoration.
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2017/02/coffee-walnut-cake.html