Coffee cake with coffee butter frosting. Perfect with chocolate, caramel, or white cakes. I took another reviewer's advice and doubled the amount of coffee and chocolate in this and then I tripled the recipe to frost "Black Magic Cake " also on this site. There are many coffee cakes but this is a classic recipe with the flavors spot on.

Perfectly moist and and totally divine! Oh wow, these vegan coffee cupcakes with coffee buttercream turned out better than I ever expected! And the color was a surprise! You can have Coffee cake with coffee butter frosting using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Coffee cake with coffee butter frosting

It's 175 grams of unsalted butter.
You need 175 grams of self-raising flour.
It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 175 grams of caster sugar.
You need 3 medium of eggs.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp of instant coffee mixed with a little boiling water.
It's 150 grams of unsalted butter.
Prepare 220 grams of icing sugar.
Prepare 2 tbsp of double cream.
It's 2 tbsp of instant coffee mixed with a little boiling water.
You need 100 grams of chopped mixed nuts.

For this video recipe, I created a coffee-chocolate version for my 'Chocolate Coffee Cake' (also from the cookbook!), using melted chocolate and coffee emulsion. After adding the butter, add the melted chocolate, salt and coffee extract. Mix again for a few minutes until a uniform and fluffy frosting forms. Coffee brings out the chocolate flavor and adds a lot of richness.

Coffee cake with coffee butter frosting instructions

Pre-heat oven to 180°c..
Grease and line bases of 2 - 20cm sponge tins..
To make cake - sift flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl..
Add butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and coffee mixture and beat together until thick and well blended..
Divide mixture evenly between both sponge tins..
Smooth and bake in oven for 20 mins until cooked..
Test to see if cooked by inserting a skewer into middle of cake - if skewer comes out clean cake is cooked..
Leave to cool in tins for 5 mins..
Turn cakes out onto a wire rack and leave to go completely cold..
To make coffee frosting - beat the butter with icing sugar, then beat in the cream and coffee mixture..
Sandwich cakes together with 1/3 of frosting and use rest to cover top and sides of cake..
Cover side of cake with chopped mixed nuts..

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