Chocolate Espresso Cake

Name: Chocolate Espresso Cake
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Makes: 10–12-portion cake
Ingredients: 300 ml / 10 fl oz double cream; 1 tsp baking powder; 100 g / 3½ oz plain dessert chocolate; 1 tbs caster sugar; 30 g / 1 oz chocolate coffee beans; 60 g / 2 oz cocoa powder; 175 g / 6 oz butter; 175 g / 6 oz dark muscovado sugar; 3 large eggs; 175 g / 6 oz self-raising flour; 300 ml / 10 fl oz hot strong black coffee, ideally espresso

Preparation info

Makes:
10–12
-portion cake

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

A coffee-rich chocolate cake for mocha fans, filled with coffee cream and covered in melted chocolate and a handful of chocolate coffee beans.

Ingredients

60 g / 2 oz cocoa powder
300 ml / 10

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Blend the cocoa powder with half the hot coffee until smooth. Set aside the rest of the coffee to cool. Add the butter and sieved sugar and beat the mixture together using an electric hand-held mixer until smooth and light. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating each in well. Gradually stir in the flour sieved with the baking powder.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth leve