Coffee Layer Cake

Name: Coffee Layer Cake
Ingredients: 2 oz. chocolate; 4 tablesp. water; 3 oz. butter or margarine; 3 oz. butter or margarine; 1 teasp. baking-powder; 2 teasp, soluble coffee powder; 3 tablesp. milk; 2 teasp. soluble coffee powder; 1 lb. icing sugar; Almonds; 4 oz. castor sugar; 4 oz. butter or margarine; 8 oz. plain flour; 2 eggs; 4 oz. butter or margarine

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

4 oz. butter or margarine
4 oz. castor sugar
2

Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Cream the fat and sugar until very light and add the eggs one at a time with a dessertsp. of flour—beat well. Sift the flour, baking-powder and coffee powder and fold lightly into the mixture with the milk. Pour into 2 greased sandwich tins and spread evenly. Bake in a fairly hot oven (375° <