Coffee and walnut cake

Name: Coffee and walnut cake
Yield: For 6-8 people
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 225 g (8 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 4 eggs; 200 g (7 oz) raw (demerara) sugar; 225 g (8 oz) butter, at room temperature; pinch of ground cinnamon; pinch of cocoa powder; 3 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water, cooled; walnut halves, to garnish; 75 g (2½ oz) walnuts, roughly chopped; 2 tsp baking powder; pinch of sea salt; 240 g (8½ oz) butter, at room temperature; 400 g (14 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar; butter, for greasing; flour, for dusting; 2 heaped tsp instant coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water, cooled

Preparation info

For
6-8
people

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

Coffee and walnut cake can be found in every tearoom. Even though it’s old fashioned, it hasn’t fallen out of favour. You can make one cake and decorate it with buttercream or you can make several layers with buttercream in between.

You can make buttercream in several different ways. Italian buttercream is made with Italian meringue, which is made by whipping egg whites together with hot sugar syrup. The meringue is then beaten until it has cooled, after which the butter is added. T