Cakes can be prepared with any ingredient one desires. You can prepare a decadent chocolate cake, a yummy strawberry or pineapple cake, a mouth-watering ice cream cake; honey, carrots, oranges, tea, bananas any ingredient one would wish to relish in the form of a cake can be added to churn out a delicious cake. As for me, I love to include coffee in as many desserts as possible. I have even sprinkled the instant coffee powder on vanilla ice cream and it tastes just divine. Well, I am just obsessed with coffee and so preparing a scrumptious cappuccino cake is just one of the tasks I like to do. Follow this easy recipe and you can churn out a cappuccino cake for yourself.
Ingredients:
For the cake:
Butter - 2 cups
Brown sugar - 2 cups
All-purpose flour - 2 1/2 cup
Eggs (beaten) - 4 nos.
Walnuts (chopped) - 1/2 cup
Instant coffee powder - 1 1/2 cup
For the frosting:
Thick whipping cream - 4 cups
Brown sugar - 2 tbsp
Cocoa powder for sprinkling
Method:
1.) Preheat oven at 180C.
2.) Cream butter and sugar together.
3.) Add eggs and mix well.
4.) Now fold in the flour and half the coffee powder.
5.) After this add the walnuts.
6.) Grease two nine-inch baking dishes. (If you have only one baking dish, then add only half the batter at one time and bake.)
7.) Pour the batter into the baking dishes and bake for 25-30 minutes or until done.
8.) Pull out of the oven and leave to cool. Now remove the cakes carefully from the two dishes.
9.) Take the cream into a large bowl and to it add the sugar and remaining coffee. Beat until you get soft peaks.
10.) Now spread half the frosting on one cake. Place the other cake on it and apply the remaining frosting.
11.) Dust the top of the cake with cocoa powder.
12.) Now dig into the cake without wasting a second.
Source: BBC
