Wake up! With coffee…cake

So, let me just touch base with you….

My first book that I took out from the school library at the age of 9 was a cookbook. I can’t remember the name, all I can remember is that it was full of beautiful picture of scrumptious cookies, treats, cakes and cupcakes. The pictures drew me in and I had the urge to make these recipes.

So it is only right to share my first recipe with you from this book. Although with time I have slightly modified the recipe it still remains a firm favorite in our house. I mean who doesn’t love coffee? and what’s more it is in the form of cake….
Oh heaven on earth….

HELLO WORLD!! let me introduce you the – Coffee Cake.

Now if you are looking for a easy, moist & soft sponge cake, this is it. I mean my 9 year old self, had no problems baking this cake way-back-when. This cake is a single layer cake with a delicious light & fluffy coffee buttercream frosting. The true success to this recipe is to use really good quality coffee and real butter. I use unsalted as the recipe does have some salt added in.

Please let me know what you think of this recipe.

So with out further due, Enjoy!!

FOR THE CAKE:

200 ml White Sugar

375 ml White cake flour

10 ml Baking powder

15 ml Instant coffee (good quality)

2 ml Ground cinnamon

2 ml Salt

2 ml Vanilla essence

2 eggs

200 ml Milk

125 ml Melted butter (Unsalted)

Preheat your oven to 180 ˚C (Fan Assisted). Make sure you prepare a 30 X 30 cm baking pan with greased parchment paper.

Mix all the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl mix the Vanilla essence, Eggs, Milk and melted butter. Make sure this is mixed well. Fold this mixture slowly into the dry ingredients. Once every this is mixed together, mix for a further 3 minutes on high speed.

Transfer the mixture to you prepared cake tin and bake for 20 – 30 min or until the cake is done. Let the cake cool off in the baking tin for at least 5 minutes before transferring it to a cooling rack.

FOR THE FROSTING:

50 g Soft Butter

200 ml Icing sugar

25 ml Strong Black Coffee dissolved

Using an electric mixer, beat the butter until light and fluffy, add the icing sugar bit by bit to the butter, making sure that it’s well mixed after each addition. Slowly add the Dissolved coffee to the butter Icing until it would be able to spread easily.

Once the cake has cooled, spread the icing over the top of the cake, dust with some Cocoa or Chocolate shavings.