Coffee & walnut cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 8
Ingredients
- 200g self raising flour
- 4 eggs
- 250g butter
- 250g sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 200g walnuts
- 4 tablespoon granulated coffee
- 100ml boiling water
- Filling/topping
- 400g mascarpone
- 100g icing sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla paste
Method
- STEP 1Butter and line a 8inch cake tin with a loose bottom.
- STEP 2Pre heat oven to 170C, 150C (fan), gas mark 5.
- STEP 3Dissolve coffee in boiling water.
- STEP 4Beat butter and sugar together, add eggs, flour and baking powder. Add coffee and water mixture and mix well together. Stir in walnuts and place mixture into
- STEP 5Place in oven and bake at 150 C (fan), 170C, gas mark 5 for 40 minutes.
- STEP 6Turn cake out when baked on to cooling rack. When cool slice in half.
- STEP 7Mix together mascarpone, icing sugar and vanilla paste until smooth.
- STEP 8Spread half of the mixture on to the bottom half of the cake, place the top half of the cake on top of the bottom and spread the rest of the mixture on to the top of the cake.