Chopped Walnut And Coffee Cake

Serves: 3

Ellsworth Rath

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

57

Spice

47

Sweetness

48

Sourness

40

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.7

Difficulty

Ingredients:

4

Eggs

1 tbsp

Cocoa Powder

2 tbsps

Water (boiling)

Directions:

1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease and line a cake tin 8 inches in diameter and 2 inches high

2

Separate the yolks from the egg whites

3

Cream the yolks and sugar together until pale yellow and hanging like ribbons from the beater

4

Add the bread crumbs, ground coffee, cocoa and walnuts and mix well together

5

Whisk the egg whites stiffly and carefully fold into the walnut mixture

6

Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for 45 minutes

7

Cool in the tin, then turn out onto a rack

8

To make the icing, cream the butter with the icing sugar and egg yolk

9

Dissolve the instant coffee in the boiling water and mix well into the icing

10

Spread over the cake with a wet knife