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Coffee cake

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Serves 8

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 30 mins

A star rating of 3.7 out of 5.361 ratingsRate

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Whip up a classic coffee cake with ease. You can freeze the sponges if you want to save time later on. Ideal for a bake sale, birthday party or coffee morning

Freezable (uniced)

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

MetricUS

• 170g butter

  or margarine, plus extra for the tins

• 170g caster sugar

• 3 large eggs

• 170g self-raising flour

• 1 tbsp cooled instant coffee

  dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water (add more if you like it stronger)

For the icing

• 225g icing sugar

• 100g butter

  or margarine

• 1½ tbsp instant coffee

  dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water

• strawberry jam

  (optional)

• walnuts

  or cherries, to decorate (optional)

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Nutrition: per serving (without optional items)

• kcal559
• fat30g
• saturates18g
• carbs66g
• sugars49g
• fibre1g
• protein5g
• salt1.1g

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Method

• step 1

  Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan. Line and butter two 18cm sandwich tins. Add the sugar and butter to a bowl and whisk until very fluffy and pale.

• step 2

  Whisk the eggs in a mug with a fork, then add them gradually to the mixture with 1 tbsp of flour each time. (Make sure you don't use all the flour.) When the eggs have been fully combined into the mix, add the rest of the flour and fold it in gently.

• step 3

  Add the dissolved coffee to the mixture, still folding. Divide into the sandwich tins and cook for 25-30 min until risen and firm and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Can be frozen at this stage.

• step 4

  Meanwhile, make the icing by beating the icing sugar with the butter until light and fluffy, then add the dissolved coffee. Whisk, then cover and set aside until ready to ice the cake.

• step 5

  Spread half the icing on the bottom of one sponge and spread the strawberry jam on the bottom of the other, if using. Sandwich together, then spread the remaining icing on top. Decorate with walnuts or cherries, if you like.

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