Make Coffee Cake

Make a Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake is a great spongy dessert or a treat with the taste of coffee in it. This recipe version also includes a delicious coffee butter icing to complement it.

Ingredients

Cake

  • 7 ounces (200 grams) of butter
  • 7 ounces (200 grams) of caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 7 ounces (200 grams) of self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 2 heaped tablespoons of instant coffee
  • 3 1/3 ounces (100 ml) of water
  • 3 1/2 ounces (100 grams) of walnut halves (optional)

Icing

  • 7 ounces (200 grams) of butter
  • 10 2/3 ounces (200 grams) of icing sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of instant coffee

Steps

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 338 degrees F, 170 degrees C, or on gas mark 3.

  2. Place wax paper or lining paper around your springform or loose based cake tin. This will prevent the cake sticking to the tin while you remove it after baking.

  3. Get a mixing bowl and beat the butter, caster sugar, eggs, baking powder, and flour together.

  4. Mix the coffee into the water in a small bowl. Put one tablespoon into the cake mixture. Stir it in and add up to one more tablespoon of the coffee mixture into the batter; save the rest for later. Drop the Make Maple Walnuts into the batter as well, making sure they are in half before you put them in.

  5. Pour the cake batter into the tin. Level and even out the top and place it in the oven for 40 minutes. You can tell if it's correctly baked or not by inserting a toothpick or a skewer in the cake& it comes out clean and dry. Remove the cake from the oven and set it aside for cooling.

  6. Make the icing by mixing the butter and icing sugar. Pour in the leftover coffee mixture, but stop pouring when you see the color and flavor that you want. Add a little more icing sugar if the mixture seems too soft.

  7. Create cake layers. Do this by dividing the cake horizontally. Frost each layer before placing another layer on.

  8. Frost the top layer and decorate your cake with walnuts.

  9. Finished.

Troubleshooting Problems: Trying to Fix Your Cake

  • My cake turned out flat... Be sure you have added the baking powder into the batter, baking powder is a cake's agent to rising. Make sure your baking tin is the perfect size, tins that are too big cause the cake not to fluff up. Also, make sure you don't over-mix the batter. Mixing too much beats out the batter too much and prevents it from rising. Once the ingredients are mixed stop mixing.
  • My cake is too dry... Next time, check how much flour you add to the mix. The wet ingredients might soak in the flour when you add too much flour, making your cake taste dry. Your cake can also be dry if you don't add enough butter or eggs in the mixture as well. Don't forget to double check your oven temperature as well, baking too long causes a cake to dry out since the heat sucks up all cake ingredients.
  • My cake turned out greasy... Insure you added the right amount butter, too much causes cakes to be greasy. Another tip would be blend the butter well, butter clumps in your cake turn out to be very greasy and disgusting.
  • My cake keeps falling apart... Remember to have the cake cool before you start slicing up. If it's still falling part, try mixing the icing together with the cake so it can stick like glue. In the future, trying adding more water in the batter. Adding the walnuts can also help the cake to hold together.
  • My cake is raw... You might of taken the cake out too soon. Place the cake back in the oven. Poke a toothpick to check if the cake is ready If the edges are browning but the middle is raw, cover the edges with foil. In the future, check to be sure you are preheating your oven correctly, or have the cake bake an extra 5 minutes in the oven. All ovens are different so baking is not always exact.
  • My cake is burnt...' Be sure you baked your cake for the time prescribed up top. If you did, you might need to check your oven's thermometer accuracy and usage to see if it is right. Another tip: Dark colored pans usually cause cakes to brown faster so try using pans that are light in color.

Tips

  • Put the 2 tablespoons of coffee in luke-warm water as it dissolves it quicker and doesn't leave you with a lumpy coffee mixture to add to your mixture.
  • The walnuts are optional for this cake.
  • If you think that the cake is not cooked, leave it in the oven for about ten minutes.

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