Directions
If you are lover of fillings enriched with coffee, then I believe you will like this cake with a rich nutty flavor.
Soft, sponge dough and literally silky frosting with coffee flavor is an irresistible sweetening with a cup of coffee after lunch.
This cake is easy and quick to prepare with ingredients that we all have at home, and that makes it often on the menu in my home and many times available for unexpected guests.
One of the reasons I love this cake, apart from the taste, is that it can be frozen in the fridge and cut into pieces as needed as a cold dessert, as the puff pastry thaws quickly and is really delicious even a little bit cold
Dough ingredients
4 eggs
70 ml of whole milk
50 ml of sunflower oil
120 grams of cake flour
20 grams of coffee
1 tbsp of vanilla extract
10 grams of baking powder
130 grams of granulated sugar
a pinch of salt
50 grams of chopped walnuts (optional can be ground)
Separate egg whites from the egg yolks and add a pinch of salt to them. Beat with hand mixer around 5 minutes with adding sugar on three times.
When they get a nice volume add the egg yolks by one and mix it. After an even mixture is obtained, add the whole milk, sunflower oil and vanilla extract.
Add the baking powder and coffee to the flour, sift, and add them to the liquid mixture. At the end, if desired, add chopped walnuts and mix with a spatula to combine all the ingredients.
As a pan you can use mold as you prefer to give desired shape, just be careful to coated with oil and sprinkle with flour before baking, or you can also use baking paper on the bottom. Transfer the prepared dough in the pan and bake at 170 degrees for 25 minutes.
Check with a toothpick whether the inside of the dough is well baked and let the dough cool while you prepare the coffee frosting.
Ingredients for coffee frosting
2 yolks
90 grams of sugar
60 ml of brewed instant coffee
1 tsp of corn starch
80 grams of butter (room temperature)
1 tbsp of vanilla extract
100 grams of chopped walnuts for decoration
Beat the egg yolks with the sugar briefly and add 2 tablespoons of the brewed coffee, beat briefly and add the starch and the rest of the brewed coffee.
The coffee should be brewed and cooled to room temperature. Steam all the ingredients for 5 minutes and leave to cool.
Beat the butter with a mixer, it needs to be at room temperature and after it gets a nice foamy structure, gradually add the cooled cream with coffee and beat it with a hand mixer.
The cream will acquire a silky structure as well as color and amazing smell of coffee.
Cover the surface of the cake with this silky frosting and sprinkle it with chopped walnuts.
Have a good appetite!
