Coffee and Walnut Cake

Ingredients

All purpose flour – 200 gm

Powdered sugar – 170 gm

Oil – 90 gm

Eggs – 2

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking soda – ½ tsp

Salt – ½ tsp

Coffee powder – 3 tsp

Milk – ¼ cup

Make a syrup of coffee and sugar

For icing

Butter – 100 gms at room temperature

Icing sugar – 200 gm

Cream – 3 tbl.sp

Coffee and sugar syrup – 2 tbl.sp

Whisk it till creamy and refrigerate it for sometime

Method

Take a bowl and  add oil and sugar and whisk it till it becomes creamy. Then add egg one by one  along with coffee powder and beat it for a minute with a hand blender.

In another bowl, sieve together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

Then little by little add it to the egg mixture  and beat it with a hand blender. If the batter is too thick add little milk. Also add coarsely blended walnuts to it.

Now take a grease baking mould, put  batter,  tap it.  Then bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius for 35 to 40 minutes.

When cool demould it.

Slightly remove the top layer and then cut the cake into half horizontally.

Put little coffe and sugar syrup on both the cake pieces

Spread cream in between the two cake pieces and then decorate it with walnuts.