Coffee Walnut Cake
Recently Conor’s
future supervisor gave him a bag of walnuts off a tree at home, telling
him they’d be great as walnut cake. Well we thought coffee would taste so good
with walnuts in cake…
Took a while to
de-shell enough, but it was worth it!
Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups self
raising flour
- 1 cup sugar
- ¾ cup strong brewed coffee (if using instant: make up 3/4 cup coffee with about ~1-2tbsp instant)
- ½ cup oil
- ½ cup walnuts
Preheat oven to 180°
1. As always, mix the
wet ingredients (coffee, oil), mix the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, walnuts).
2. Mix the two sets
together.
3. Put mix into a
greased sponge tray and bake in oven for 15-20mins (or until browned).
4. Decorate as you please. We just made up a simple icing (mix some coffee with icing sugar) and topped with walnuts.
Simple and quick
recipe – as it should be!
P.S. The tip to making
good cake is knowing your oven. For example, the above recipe works perfectly if you have a good oven, like
in Conor’s house back home. In Conor’s oven in his student place though the
oven is overly powerful and cooks the cake quickly, so we add another ½ cup of
flour to the mix.
