coffee walnut fudge cake

Method

• step 1

  Cream butter and castor sugar together until light and fluffy. add the eggs gradually, beating well between each.

• step 2

  fold in the flour, then add the walnuts and coffee essence.

• step 3

  place in 2cm x 18cm greased and bottom-lined sandwich tins

• step 4

  Bake in the middle of a preheated oven at 180 degrees C for 25-30 mins. turn out and cool on a wire tray.

• step 5

  Icing cream the butter and icing sugar until light, add the coffee essence and beat untill well blended, adding a little milk if needed

• step 6

  Sandwich the cakes together with a little icing. spread most of the remainder icing on the dides and the top of the cake.

• step 7

  chop all but 8 of the walnuts and press around the sides of the cake. pipe the remaining icing around the cake using a star nozzle and decorate with reserved walnute