Corr.. Coffee Cake!

Corr.. Coffee Cake!     

 Makes one medium sized cake    Prepare time: 10 minutes    Bake time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

Cake:

- 125g caster sugar

- 125g butter

- 125g self-raising flour

- 2 eggs

- 2tbsp instant coffee (dissolved in 100ml water) 

- 1tbsp baking powder

- Chocolate buttons or walnut halves to decorate

Icing:

- 150g butter

- 200g Icing sugar

Method:

- Preheat the oven to 170C.      

- Beat the butter and sugar together, until creamed.

- Crack in one off the eggs, mix, and repeat with the second egg.

- Sift the flour and baking powder and stir together until nicely mixed.                              

- Next, beat half of the dissolved coffee into the mixture, you will save the rest for icing.  

- Spoon the mixture into two greased sponge tins and cook for 25-30 minutes and leave to cool.

- For the icing, beat the butter until softened and then add in the icing sugar. After that add the remaining coffee mixture. If the icing is looking a little runny, beat in more icing sugar until you get the consistency desired.

- Once the cake has fully cooled, sandwich the two halves together with icing and level the icing neatly across the top.

- Decorate with chocolate buttons or walnut halves either going round the edge of cake top or completely covering it.

Enjoy your cake with a, guess if you can, cup of coffee! Or it can be simply eaten on it's own as delicious sweet treat. Keep in air-tight container or tin to pro-long the life of your cracking coffee collaboration!