Coffee Cake
A delicious coffee cake finished with pecans and grandma style swirls!
Posted by Carrie K.
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You Will Need (7 things)
- Plain Flour
- 6 oz Caster Sugar
- 6 oz Self-Raising Flour
- 6 tsp Coffee
- 100 g Butter
- Icing Sugar
- Pecans
Steps (8 steps, 60 minutes)
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1
Grease and line two cake tins. Preheat the oven to 180.
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2
Combine 6 oz Caster sugar with 6 oz room temperature butter.
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3
Beat 3 eggs and add to the mix gradually.
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4
Measure out 6 oz self raising flour. Add half the flour at a time and gently fold it into the cake mixture.
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5
Make a strong espresso, or use three tsp instant coffee and a little water. Wait until the coffee has cooled before adding to the cake batter. Mix well.
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6
Spoon the coffee cake batter into the cake tins. Bake on 180 for 20 mins.
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7
Make another espresso of 3 tsp instant coffee and allow to cool. Melt 100g butter in the microwave. Mix the two together. Then add icing sugar and mix well until you have a smooth icing.
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8
Sandwich the two cake bases together with the icing. Finish the cake off using a fork to make swirly patterns on the icing and decorate with pecan nuts.