Coffee Cake

I'll let you into a little secret....I absolutely HATE tea and coffee buuuut I adore coffee desserts (as long as there is no alcohol!! I hate alcohol in my desserts....only in a glass please!) and this cake will take you to cake heaven. I mean, who doesn't love cake?? I most certainly do....chocolate, coffee, lemon, Victoria sponge, marmalade, marble.......I just love cake and this coffee cake will not disappoint...it's my own recipe so do let me know what you think.


Ingredients:

• 250g softened butter
• 250g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 250g self raising flour
• Instant coffee
• Dark chocolate (to decorate)
• 250g icing sugar
• 80g unsalted butter at room temperature 
• 25ml milk

Heat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4.


Line two cake tins with baking parchment.


Cream the butter and the sugar together until pale in a food processor/Kitchin Aid, then beat in the eggs.


Slowly add the sifted flour and mix well.


Put the kettle on to boil and in a small bowl, add 4 teaspoons of coffee and add a little of the boiled water to make a thick consistency coffee. Add to the cake mixture to taste.


Once you have the right amount of coffee flavour, spoon the mixture between the two cake tins. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.


Once cooked, cool on a wire rack.

Meanwhile, time to make the icing! Beat the icing sugar and butter together in a mixer. Once well combined, add the milk and vanilla extract.

If you have more coffee left over then add to the frosting, bit by bit to taste. If you used it all up then boil more water and make more coffee paste.

Once the cakes have cooked, sandwich together with half the frosting then cover the outside of the cake with the remaining frosting. Grate some dark chocolate and sprinkle over the cake.