This is soo yummy. I too only made half the filling and it was plenty. We ran out of coffee so i used a mocha sach and it was still yummy. Love it.

dense ,dark, very rich and fudgey cake; only filled the middle with the marscapone/ coffee and added 2 teaspoons of tia maria... you only need a very small slice,,,loved by everyone at our annual Eurovision party

I am in the process of cooking it now. As I like a deeper sponge, I used the ingredients + 1/4. Looking forward to tasting it!

Lovely cake, although it is not a fluffy sponge cake. It was incredibly rich. Not a bad word was said against it and was demolished by people at work! Be careful how much coffee you add:

1) Because mine was a little strong
2) The icing can look far too dark and spoil the effect.

Hi, what size tins do I use? thanks

Just substituted the coffee for passion fruit juice and decorated with strawberries, delicious!

Made this cake for my daughter's birthday and her comment was 'best cake ever'. It really is a lovely cake and the coffee icing is delicious. As has been mentioned before, you only need 4 teapsoons of coffee to 4 teaspoons of water - not tablespoons as recipe states. Also I found 250g mascarpone was enough. Will be making it over and over again!

Made this cake for my boyfriend as a thank you present, I let him ice it and found we had quite a bit left over. But i tried microwaving the leftovers and found it made a lovely sauce to add. Overall its a lovely recipe!

It should not be 4 tablespoons of coffee that gives a brown thin mixture not the creamy thick topping/filling as in the picture

This was a lovely cake- made for a birthday. I would have preferred to have the whole recipe in one place but the supplementary recipe wasn't hard to find so it wasn't a major problem.
It was straightforward to make and tasted great.

This recipe is terrible. Firstly, why can't they just integrate the recipe they reference - nearly couldn't find this 'goes well with' recipe if it wasn't for the comments underneath. Secondly, I tried making the icing but the recipe asks for too much liquid (I did 4 tbsp coffee + 4 tbsp water as stated. Really should be half this amount) and went pretty horrible and curdled. Ended up trying to rescue it by adding LOADS of icing sugar, but feel like I've just wasted 500g mascarpone.

I'm a bit confused, and I when I made the mascarpone cream it split when I added the coffee mix, even though I left it to go cold?

Any tips?? :)

The topping and filling was the most delicious thing I have ever tasted (though I did add less coffee as people suggested) and licking out the bowl was better than eating the actual thing! I found with the cake the filling was slightly overpowered though, and didn't necersarily work as well as you'd think it might.
The cake itself was extremely strong, and next time I will add less cocoa or maybe more sugar. It was dense and moist (though I added extra milk and will probably add a little more next time) - definitely one for chocolate lovers!

omg like i used this recipe and it actually worked for th frst time ty who eva done this recipe i got over 400 pounds for cooking ty like this is cool! swayy!

Excellent recipe. I baked this for my sister's birthday and everyone enjoyed it. The only changes I made from other people's suggestions (thanks everyone!) was in the icing, I cut the mascarpone to 350g and used 4 tsp coffee in 4 tb water which I allowed to cool. Luckily I remembered not to use all the liquid in my mascarpone or it would have been very runny. It was just lightly coffee flavoured. I will definitely make again and I think I will try it in cupcakes. Thanks Barney!

This cake is very rich and very moreish! I think next time I make it I will use slightly less mascarpone as there was a lot but well worth making and very easy to do.

Yum! Yum! Yum! Took the advise of the others and added the coffee flavouring slowly so not to add too much to the mascarpone. Everyone loved it!

A lovely cake! Made it as a birthday cake and was gone within 24hours, a real hit! And the coffee mascarpone topping is delicious, though i did reduce the coffee a little so it was not too over-powering. ill definately make this again and soon!

I only gave this 3 stars because of difficulties with the recipe - as a number of other users have reported, although I think the individual flavours are lovely.

I also had a problem with very runny marscapone - is it because the coffee was hot when I added it? I felt stupid afterwards, but then again it does not state in the recipe that it should be chilled first. I also question the amount of coffee as many other readers have and wonder if this didn't add to the runniness. The end flavour is fine, I just have to wait to ice the cake now til the shops open tomorrow and I can get more marscapone - disappointing!

this is a fab cake, I made it go round 10 of us quite easily but I did serve it up at the end of a big lunch, it went down a treat, would definately make this again, very easy. I did have to add a bit of milk to my batter as I found it was very thick and not quite a normal cake consistancy. Delicious!