Boozy Coffee & Walnut Cake

Boozy coffee and walnut cake is the perfect party sponge- serve at afternoon tea, cake sales and birthdays

• Cooking Time Ready in about 30 minutes
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Cuts into 10 slices

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  642

• Protein

  7g

• Carbs

  50g

• Fat

  46g

• Saturates

  26g

• Fibre

  0.8g

• Sugar

  32g

• Salt

  0.9g

Ingredients

• For the cake mix
• 200g caster sugar
• 200g softened butter
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 15 walnut halves
• 2 heaped tbsp instant coffee, dissolved in 1 tbsp boiling water
• For the filling
• 500g pot mascarpone
• 85g light muscovado sugar
• 4 tbsp Tia Maria
• a few toasted walnut halves, for decoration

Directions

1. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Butter two 20cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper. Toast the walnut halves in the oven for 10 mins. Reserve 10 and chop the rest. Dissolve the instant coffee in 1 tbsp of boiling water, cool and add the basic cake mix (see recipe for Classic Victoria sponge, right), instead of the milk.
2. For the filling, beat the mascarpone with the light muscovado sugar and Tia Maria until smooth. Sandwich the cooled cakes with a third of the filling and the chopped walnuts.
3. Cover the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the filling and decorate the top with the toasted walnut halves.

Categories: Cakes & Baking, Courses