1-tin Coffee and Walnut Cake

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COFFEE AND WALNUT CAKE

Coffee and Walnut Cake

These are the proportions for a smaller cake that is baked in 1 tin in the breadmaker on the BAKE setting.

 

CAKE INGREDIENTS

  • 65g walnut halves, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon coffee
  • 100g self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoons baking powder
  • a pinch salt
  • 115g butter, softened
  • 115g brown sugar
  • 2 medium eggs

TOPPING INGREDIENTS

  • 2 teaspoons coffee
  • 100g icing sugar
  • 12 walnut halves

METHOD

  1. Heat a frying pan and gently roast the chopped walnuts and the walnut halves.
  2. Prepare some strong coffee. You will need 1 tablespoon for the cake and 2 teaspoons for the icing.
  3. Grease and line the cake tin.
  4. Dissolve the instant coffee in 1 tablespoon boiling water.
  5. Coarsely grind 30g of the chopped walnuts in a food processor.
  6. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  7. Beat in the eggs.
  8. Gently fold in the ground walnuts, chopped walnuts, flour, baking powder and salt.
  9. Pour the mixture into the cake tin.
  10. Bake in the breadmaker for 25-30 minutes on the BAKE cycle until cooked.
  11. When the cake has cooked, leave to cool for 5 minutes.
  12. Turn out the cake.
  13. Prepare the topping by dissolving the instant coffee in 2 tablespoons of boiling water and stirring in the icing sugar.
  14. Ice the cake with the topping and decorate with the walnuts halves.