The perfect tea-time treat: Classic Coffee Cake Recipe

Coffee cake used to mean having a cake to go with your cup of coffee but this evolved into adding instant coffee powder into your sponge cake mixture.

This is a simple, light coffee cake recipe is made using ingredients you already have at home. Perfect for a tea party with a few friends.

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Coffee Cake Recipe

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Recipe by Alicia NaidooCourse: DessertCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

20

minutes

Total time

40

minutes

This classic coffee cake is moist, delicious and super easy to make.

Ingredients

• 2 eggs

• 2 cups flour

• 2 teaspoons baking powder

• pinch of salt

• 1 1/2 cups milk

• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence

• 1 1/2 cups sugar

• 2 tablespoons instant coffee

• 200 grams butter

Method

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• In a mixing bowl, whisk butter and sugar together.
• Add in eggs and and whisk for about 2 minutes, until soft.
• Add baking powder and salt to the mixture.
• Mix the milk and vanilla essence together in a cup.
• Alternating, add milk then flour to the mixture.
• Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
• Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool completely before icing. Decorate the cake with topping of your choice.

Notes

• To make a simple chocolate ganache, melt a slab of chocolate and mix with cream. Drizzle over the cake.
• Serve with cream or ice-cream.

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