Coffee cake with coffee and walnut icing
Very lovely loaf cake, very sweet not too coffee strong!
Ingredients
Makes: 2 medium to large tins
- 170g softened butter
- 250g soft brown sugar
- 100g plain cooking chocolate, melted
- 375g self raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon mace
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 250ml strong black cold coffee
- 4 eggs
- For the icing
- 450g icing sugar
- 250ml very strong black coffee
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 300g chopped walnuts
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:50min ›
Extra time:30min cooling ›
Ready in:1hr50min
- Put butter and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl. Stir together until they are nice and creamy. Stir in melted chocolate.
- Sift together in a separate mixing bowl the flour, mace and cinnamon. Stir this in with ingredients in first bowl, mixing with cold coffee. Drop in eggs, one at a time, mixing each in thoroughly. Set aside momentarily.
- Grease and lightly flour 2 large loaf tins. Divide cake mixture between tins.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C / Gas 4 for about 50 minutes. When tests done, let cake cool in tin. Turn cooled cake out on plate.
- Put icing sugar into bowl and slowly mix in cold coffee and vanilla. Start out with a little coffee - don't pour all in at once. You many not need the entire 250ml of coffee.
- Spread icing over the cakes and sprinkle over walnuts. Enjoy!
Tip
Whisk the icing a lot as there is a lot of liquid in the mix, might be a good idea to take 3/4 of the coffee and substitute coffee flavouring.
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- 07 Apr 2010
Some of the instructions are a bit vague, 2 medium to large cakes? What does that mean exactly. The coffee quantity for the icing is way out, so as the instructions say be very careful, it's more like 125ml. I made one cake and used a 20cm square cake tin and it turned out just fine and dandy. - 09 Aug 2017