Coffee and Walnut Cake

Coffee and Walnut Cake

Coffee and Walnut Cake

Ingredients
• 125g butter, at room temperature 
• 125g caster sugar 
• 2 eggs 
• 125g self-raising flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 2 heaped tbsp coffee, dissolved in 100ml water 
• 100g walnut halves 
For Icing
• 200g butter 
• 300g icing sugar 

Method

1. Heat the oven to 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a deep 18cm cake tin.
2. Beat the butter and sugar together with electric beaters and then beat in the eggs, flour and baking powder.
3. Beat in 1 tablespoon of the coffee mixture and then add up to another tablespoon little by little until the mixture drops easily off the spoon. Keep the rest of the coffee mixture for the icing.
4. Stir in half of the walnuts, snapping them in half as you drop them into the bowl. Spoon into the tin, level the top and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out cleanly. Set it aside to cool. 
5. To make the icing, beat the butter until soft and then beat in 200g icing sugar followed by the remaining coffee mixture, little by little. Stop when you have a depth of colour and flavour that you like. If the icing looks a little soft, beat in extra icing sugar. 
6. Cut the cake into 3 slices horizontally and then sandwich the layers together with some of the icing, you will need a reasonably thick layer. Ice the top of the cake with the rest of the icing and decorate with the rest of the walnuts.