Coffee and Walnut Cake Recipe with Chocolate

Coffee and walnut cake

Name: Coffee and walnut cake
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: 2 tbsp instant coffee; 1 tbsp milk plus a splash for the icing; 200g unsalted butter softened, plus extra for the tin; 200g caster sugar; 200g self-raising flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 4 large eggs; 75g dark chocolate roughly chopped; 250g mascarpone; 50g icing sugar; 75g white chocolate melted; 50g walnuts finely chopped

Chetna Makan

Published: August 3, 2022 at 6:08 PM

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Serves 8-10

Easy

Total time: 1 hr

+ cooling

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The combination of coffee and walnut is a classic but the addition of chocolate adds another layer of flavour to this beautiful cake, ready in just one hour

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Ingredients

Nutrition

COFFEE CAKE

2 tbsp instant coffee
1 tbsp milk

plus a splash for the icing
200g unsalted butter

softened, plus extra for the tin
200g caster sugar
200g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 large eggs
75g dark chocolate

roughly chopped

WALNUT ICING

250g mascarpone
50g icing sugar
75g white chocolate

melted
50g walnuts

finely chopped

Nutrition: per serving

kcal584
fat38.8g
saturates22g
carbs49.2g
sugars33.3g
fibre1.6g
protein8.5g
salt0.5g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and base-line two 20cm cake tins with baking paper. Mix together the coffee powder with 1 tbsp boiling water until dissolved, add the milk and mix again.
step 2

Put all the remaining cake ingredients with the coffee mixture in a large bowl and use electric beaters to whisk for 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Divide the mix equally between the prepared tins and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer poked into the centres comes out clean. Cool completely.
step 3

Put the mascarpone in a bowl and sift the icing sugar into it, beating to combine. Pour in the melted chocolate and mix well, adding a splash of milk if it’s too thick to spread.
step 4

To assemble the cake, put one sponge on a serving plate and spread over 1/2 the icing. Sandwich with the second sponge and spread the rest of the icing on top. Finish by sprinkling over the chopped walnuts.

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