Chocolate and Coffee Butter Cake
I made this for my friend's birthday cos she loves coffee and chocolate. Its not too hard but it helps if you've made a butter cake before - but then again - you gotta start somewhere!
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 180g butter
- 3/4 cup (180g) caster sugar
- 3 small eggs, beaten and at room temperature
- 1 Tbsp water mixed with 1 tsp instant coffee granules
- 1 1/4 cups (150g) self-raising flour, sifted
- 1/4 cup (30g) cocoa powder
- Filling
- 60g butter
- 1 tsp instant coffee granules in 1 tsp water
- 1 tbsp cocoa OR 30g melted chocolate
- 1/2 cup (90g) icing sugar, or as needed
Directions
Preparation:40min ›
Cook:20min ›
Ready in:1hour
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
- Cream butter and sugar. Add in eggs and coffee. Sieve in flour and cocoa. Combine well.
- Divide batter into two 18cm greased and floured cake tins. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven.
- Test with a skewer, and if done, leave to cool 5 minutes in the tin before turning on to the rack.
- For the filling, cream the butter until almost white. Add in flavourings and icing sugar. Spread over one half of the cake when they are cool. Turn the other upside-down so the domed top sits on the filling.
- Ice with chocolate, coffee or a mixed icing, or melted chocolate with added coffee!
Tip:
The more cocoa you add, the more self raising flour you lose, so if your cakes start to get a bit solid, add a teaspoon of baking powder in to give it a lift.
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I'd never made a sponge before, and the first one of this I made came out really dense. It was only after I spoke with my gran that I found out that a sponge needs equal weights of butter, sugar, flour AND egg that I thought to weigh the egg before I added it to the mix ... and that everything needs to be aerated. Apart from that, it's a fairly easy recipe. - 11 Apr 2012
Altered ingredient amounts. it dosnt tell you how many eggs to use so i used 2 - 18 Jan 2009 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)
Lovely- my first time makin a sponge in years and didnt have an eletric mixer! Made it by hand and it still came out beautiful. - 29 Mar 2009 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)