Boozy coffee & walnut cake
Cooking time
Ready in about 30 minutesSkill level
EasyServings
Cuts into 10 slicesBoozy coffee and walnut cake is the perfect party sponge- serve at afternoon tea, cake sales and birthdays
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Cake base freezes well for 3 months
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 642
- protein
- 7g
- carbs
- 50g
- fat
- 46g
- saturates
- 26g
- fibre
- 0.8g
- sugar
- 32g
- salt
- 0.9g
Ingredients
For the cake mix
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g softened butter
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 15 walnut halves
- 2 heaped tbsp instant coffee, dissolved in 1 tbsp boiling water
For the filling
- 500g pot mascarpone
- 85g light muscovado sugar
- 4 tbsp Tia Maria
- a few toasted walnut halves, for decoration
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Method
- Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Butter two 20cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper. Toast the walnut halves in the oven for 10 mins. Reserve 10 and chop the rest. Dissolve the instant coffee in 1 tbsp of boiling water, cool and add the basic cake mix (see recipe for Classic Victoria sponge, right), instead of the milk.
- For the filling, beat the mascarpone with the light muscovado sugar and Tia Maria until smooth. Sandwich the cooled cakes with a third of the filling and the chopped walnuts.
- Cover the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the filling and decorate the top with the toasted walnut halves.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2005
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I don't like coffee cake but agreed to make this for a friend for her birthday. She likes her coffee strong so I doubled the quantity in the cake mixture. I have to admit I didn't use this recipe for the icing but just made some coffee butter icing instead.
Fantastic comments all round when I took it into work. The extra coffee hit went down a storm.
Making another one tomorrow! (and I did taste it myself and it was gorgeous!!)
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My 13 year old son requested this for his birthday. I am not a big fan of coffee cake but this was lovely. I think the mascarpone really added a creamy, milder taste - reminded me of Tiramisu! And the cake itself wasn't too strong with the coffee flavour. I didn't have any walnuts so used pecans which worked just as well. Will make again.
Made this for my husbands 40th. Didnât have any Tia Maria so used the rum/coffee mix suggested above. I think as a substitute for Tia Maria this worked pretty well. However, we werenât over fond of the mascarpone frosting, next time I will just use a buttercream. Also made the coconut and lime cake pictured above it was delicious!
I made this cake for OH's birthday. It was absolutely gorgeous. I found the filling/topping a little bit sloppy but then probably my fault as I used 400g mascarpone, 2 tablespoons caster sugar, 2 tbsp Tia Maria and about 1 desp of leftover coffee liquid. Nevertheless it didnt last long and I got some lovely compliments.
hi, i made this cake for a charity coffee morning and everyone thinks i'm a genuis now!!! it was so easy i was embarrassed. i added baileys caramel liquer instead of tia maria, about 2 tablespoons to sponge and 1 tablespoon to icing. I even impressed myself. Despite an abundance of delicious chocolatey treats and scones this cake disappeared as word spread. WOW and thanks.
