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Simple Coffee Cake

Ingredients

For the cake:

For the icing:

Method

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 160oC/325oF.  Butter and line 2 small cake tins about 18cm/7 inch in diameter.
  2. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  3. Whisking all the time, now add alternately some of the whisked eggs followed by 1tbsp of the flour each time, making sure you do not use up all the flour.
  4. Add the rest of the flour and the baking powder to the mixture and fold these gently into the mixture.
  5. Dissolve the coffee in a mug and then add to the cake mixture and fold in gently.
  6. Pour the mixture equally between the 2 prepared cake tins and bake for 30 minutes, or until ready.  Remove the cakes from the tins and allow to cool on a wire rack.
  7. To make the butter icing, cream together the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.  Mix the coffee with the hot water and add to the butter icing.
  8. To ice the cake, put one cake onto a flat surface.  Now spread coffee butter icing on the bottom of the other cake and sandwich the 2 cakes together.  Finally, spread coffee butter icing over the top of the cake. 
  9. You can decorate the cake with walnuts, almonds or how about chocolate coated coffee beans. 

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