Chelsea

Chelsea Trusted 135 Years SPOT

Coffee and Walnut Cake

By Chelsea Sugar
Coffee and Walnut Cake
12 servings
  • 11 reviews

  • Difficulty Easy
  • Prep time 25 mins
  • Cooking time 20 mins
  • Serves
    12
Ingredients

    175 g butter (at room temperature) , plus extra for greasing
    75 g walnuts , plus extra to garnish
    175 g Chelsea White Sugar
    3 large free-range eggs
    150 g self-raising flour
    ½ teaspoon baking powder
    50 ml cold coffee


    COFFEE FILLING
    65 g unsalted
    125 g Chelsea Icing Sugar
    40 ml strong coffee


    COFFEE ICING
    100 g Chelsea Icing Sugar
    20 ml strong coffee

Method

    Preheat the oven to 180ºC.  Grease and line the bases of 2 round 20cm cake tins.
    In a food processor, blitz two-thirds of the nuts to powder. Cube, then cream the butter in a bowl with the sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs then add the blitzed walnuts and gently stir through.
    Fold the flour, baking powder and a pinch of sea salt through with a large metal spoon until just incorporated.  
    Roughly chop the rest of the walnuts and stir through the cake mixture along with the espresso.
    Evenly divide the mixture between the cake tins and bake in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until lightly golden and cooked through when tested with a skewer.

    Cool the cakes in the tins for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

    For the filling, cube and put the butter in a bowl. Sift in the icing sugar, beat until fluffy, then beat in the coffee.
    For the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and beat in the coffee to make a thick, smooth icing.
    Place one of the cakes on a plate or board and spread with the coffee filling. Top with the second cake and drizzle over the icing.
    Decorate the cake with the remaining walnuts as they are, or lightly caramelised. To do this, melt sugar over a medium heat, without stirring, then carefully toss the nuts in briefly to coat. Cool the nuts on a wire rack before using.

If you like this recipe you may love these

Reviews

Average Rating
211
(11 reviews)


Picture of cake provided does not reflect recipe - icing on top of cake pictured is clearly buttercream, not just a flat icing of sugar & coffee!
Also result does not reflect picture. Recipe does not make enough to split between 2 baking tins.

Made this for my Mums birthday, it’s SO ugly!! You have to double it because it barley filled one 20cm tin! Definitely do not recommend

This is the third time , I have made this cake & delicious every time . I do add an extra egg , if they are not really what I consider large , IT KEEPS NICE &MOIST if you can hide it from the family .

Did not rise sadly

Tasted OK but looked terrible, it just didn't rise or wasn't enough mixture.
Shame because it was for Fathers Day sadly.

Sadly it was flat, didn't rise sadly

Definitely not enough batter for 2 cakes, made one very flat cake. Also seems very eggy.

Made this cake today & it turned out so yummy. I did cook it in an oblong tin (as we have a big family) then split it in half for a mock cream filling, then iced it. Next time I will not ice it as it is sweet enough on its own. As it is not a double depth, it is more lady-like to eat. Did the other cake makers use the correct flour? Self raising - plus half a teaspoon of baking powder?

Haven't made this cake but Chealsea can you please list ingredients by cup size for goodness sake! I love weighing flour/sugar/butter said no one ever! Thank you.

If your going to make this, double the recipe. The mixture was barely enough to fill one 20cm cake tin, yet alone two. It was as flat as a pancake & doesn't have enough flour.

Not enough flour! Turned out terrible needs about double the amount of flour with that many eggs

Load More

Products used in this recipe

Sign in