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Coffee Cake

The coffee cake is made with chopped walnuts to give a great nutty texture.

Ingredients

  • 175g/6oz Odlums Self Raising Flour
  • 175g/6oz margarine (at room temperature)
  • 175g/6oz caster Sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 4 tbsp instant coffee dissolved in 1 tablespoon of boiling water, then cooled.
  • 50g/2oz Shamrock Chopped Walnuts
  • 125g/4oz icing sugar (sieved)
  • 50g/2oz butter or tubbed margarine (at room temperature)
  • 1 tbsp instant coffee dissolved in 1 tsp of boiling water, then cooled
  • A few Shamrock Whole Walnuts

Method

  1. Grease and line a 2 x 18cm/7” sandwich with greaseproof paper.
  2. Pre-heat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.
  3. Place all the ingredients for the cake - flour, margarine, sugar, eggs, coffee and walnuts into a mixing bowl.
  4. Beat all ingredients together until mixture is smooth.
  5. Transfer to the prepared tin and bake in upper shelf position, for 30 minutes.
  6. Cake is baked when top is gently pressed and it springs back.
  7. Remove from tin and cool on a wire tray.
  8. To Make icing /filling: Beat all ingredients together until smooth and use to sandwich the cake or for topping or both.

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