Coffee Cake
This beautiful Coffee Cake recipe delivers a hit of coffee along with a little sugar rush!
Servings: 2 bar cakes
Calories: 2329kcal
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 225 grams butter
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup espresso coffee (about 2 shots)
- 4 large eggs
- 2 ½ cups plain flour
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
Decorating
- 1 knob butter
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅓ cup slivered almonds
- ⅓ cup mixed peel
- ⅓ cup dried edible rose petals
- ⅓ cup coconut flakes
Instructions
Cake
- Beat butter and sugar to a cream.
- Add milk and coffee gradually while beating.
- Add eggs and mix well.
- Sift in dry ingredients and mix well.
- Pour mixture into two well-greased bar tins.
- Cook at 170 degrees celsius (fan-forced) for 45 minutes.
Decorating
- Spread butter over top of cakes while still hot.
- Combine cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle ½ of the mixture over the two bar cakes.
- Roast slivered almonds in oven until browned.
- Arrange almonds, coconut and mixed peel on top of the cakes. Diagonal stripes look lovely or you can just mix all three together and sprinkle over the cakes.
- Sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar over the cakes.
- Finally, sprinkle rose petals over both cakes.
Nutrition
Calories: 2329kcal | Carbohydrates: 260g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 131g | Saturated Fat: 76g | Cholesterol: 643mg | Sodium: 1629mg | Potassium: 1112mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 132g | Vitamin A: 3713IU | Calcium: 233mg | Iron: 10mg