Name: Coffee cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves: 8–10
Ingredients: 3 teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 2 tablespoons boiling water; 300 g self raising flour; 3 eggs; 2 teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 2 tablespoons boiling water; 250 g butter, at room temperature; 250 g brown sugar; 125 g soft butter (but not melted); 125 g tub natural yoghurt; 185 g icing sugar

Preparation info

Serves:
8–10

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

My son Sam has always loved coffee cake and I have no idea where this passion came from. I am a coffee-lover – I would walk miles for good coffee – but I’m not a coffee cake-eater. It has taken us some years to perfect our coffee cake recipe as Sam has had a keen interest in it. American chalet chefs use buttermilk (a sour milk) in their muffin recipes so we started using yoghurt in ours and they do rise better. It was Sam’s idea to add the