Easy Coffee Cake | Kukskitchen

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Want to make a cake for an adult and they have not got a big sweet tooth? This coffee cake is just what you need. It has the softness and creaminess of a good cake without all that sweetness. Great with a cup of freshly ground strong coffee. I made it for my husband's birthday gone.

A few things before we start:

• I used nescafe instant Azera Americano, my current favourite instant coffee at my office ( I change my instant coffee brand all the time).
• Add 50g of walnuts to make it a coffee and walnut cake
• You can use white granulated sugar if you can't find brown sugar. The final product will be a sweeter. 
• Instead of self raising flour use sieved flour and baking soda.
• You can bake this cake in two separate sandwich tins and then join them using the butter cream. In that case top with whipped cream.

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Easy Coffee Cake

Makes one 8" cake

Serves 6

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Ingredients:

1- Butter - 175g (room temperature)
    Brown sugar - 175g
    Baking powder - 1 tsp

2- Eggs - 3
    Self raising flour - 175g

3- Instant coffee -  1 tbsp
    Hot water from kettle - 10ml

4- Butter -  100g
    Icing sugar -  150g
    Instant coffee - 1 tsp

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line an 8" cake tin.
• Cream the soft butter, sugar and baking powder in a bowl or your planetary mix. 
• Add eggs one by one to the mixture mixing well after each addition. Sieve in the flour and mix using folding movements until just combined. 
• Dissolve the coffee in 10ml of hot water, add to the mixture and combine.
• Spoon the mixture to the cake tin. Cook in the middle of oven for 25-30 mins or until firm to touch.
• Remove cake from the tin and place onto cooling racks, allow to cool completely.
• When the cakes are cooled make the filling.
• Cream together (4) in a bowl. Use this to frost the cake. 

Also check out - Cardamom cookies- Click on the picture for recipe.

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Sherin