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.

Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients
refined flour - 100 gm
powdered sugar - 100 gm
oil - 100 gm
egg - 1
baking powder - 1 tsp
baking soda - 1/2 tsp
vanilla essence - 1 tsp
make hot coffee syrup - 1/2 cup

for icing
refrigerated cream - 250 gm
icing sugar - 4 to 5 tbl.sp
vanilla essence - 1 tsp
coffee syrup - 2 to 3 tsp to which 1 tbl.sp cocoa powder is mixed, boiled and cooled


Method
In a bowl take oil and egg and whisk it for few seconds. Then to it add powdered sugar and again whip it. With the help of sieve, add refined flour, baking soda, baking powder, then add vanilla essence. Whip it  well and then add half of  hot coffee syrup. Mix well and pour it in a baking mould and bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcuis for 25 to 30 minutes or till done.

For making cream icing
To the leftover coffee syrup add one tbl.sp of cocoa powder boil it and then cool it down.
Take 250 gm cold thick cream and whip it. Add slowly icing sugar 4 to 5 tbl.sp and vanilla essence and again whip it well. Refrigerate it for some time and then remove it and again whip it by adding  2 to 3 tsp of coffee syrup. Whip it again and then refrigerate it.

When the cake is ready, remove from the mould and let it cool down completely.
Cut cake evenly from top and then sprinkle little coffee syrup on the cake and then spread cream and sprinkle choco strand. Refrigerate it for some time and then serve.