This is a really tasty cake for a Sunday afternoon!
Ingredients:
- 150g caster sugar
- 150g butter or margarine
- 3 eggs
- 150g self raising flour
- 1 and a half tsp of baking powder
- 1 tbsp instant coffee
- 1 tbsp hot water
Decoration:
- 225g icing sugar
- 100g butter or margarine
- 1 and a half tbsp of instant coffee
- 1 tbsp hot water
Method:
- Preheat the oven at 160C. Grease two identical baking tins.
- Mix the sugar and the butter together until fluffy and a light yellow.
- Whisk the eggs with a fork.
- Gradually add the eggs and the flour to the butter and the sugar while mixing.
- Add 1 and a half tbsp of baking powder.
- Dissolve the coffee in the hot water and add it to the mixture.
- Split the mixture evenly into two identical baking tins and cook for 20-30 minutes.
Decoration:
- While the cake is baking, cream the butter and the icing sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Dissolve some more coffee in boiling water, making sure you don’t add too much water otherwise the icing will go runny mix it into the butter and icing sugar.
- Leave it in the fridge until the cake has baked.
- Once the cakes are done and have been put onto plates spread the icing on the bottom of one of the cakes (leaving around half of the icing for the top)
- Cover the top and sides in icing an leave to set for 10 minutes or so and then… Enjoy!
Thanks for reading,
Sparkle Girl x
