Coffee Cake

If you are coffee lover, you are definietly going to love this coffee cake. This recipe will give a tender, buttery coffee cake. Frost this with a coffee buttercream and top it with a chocolate ganache or as you like for a rich flavour. 

Ingredients

For the coffee cake

250g salted butter (softened) 

225g sugar

5 eggs 

225g flour 

2 tsp baking powder

3 tsp vanilla essence

1/4 cup coffee milk (or 2 tbsp milk powder+1 tsp instant coffee powder+3 tbsp cold water)

For the Coffee Buttercream 

100g salted butter (softened)

1/4 tsp vanilla powder 

1 tbsp instant coffee (dissolved in 2 tbsp hot water)

1 tbsp condensed milk/heavy cream (optional)

300g confectioners sugar / icing sugar 

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 150 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. 
2. Sift flour+baking powder together twice. 
3. Beat butter and sugar well until creamy. 
4. Add one egg at a time and beat well until creamy.
5. Then add the flour and fold with a spatula until combined.( Do not whisk)
6. Finally add the vanilla extract and instant coffee to the milk and mix it with the cake batter. Mix well with a spatula until combined. (do not whisk )
7. Pour the batter to a lined baking pan and bake for 1 hour under 150 degree Celsius. 
8. Once the cake is baked well, transfer the cake to a cooling rack and let it cool completely.
9. To make the coffee buttercream frosting, whisk all the ingredients together and frost the cake. Garnish with roasted nuts or nouguts. Enjoy!