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Cup North: Coffee Cake

Vintage Cocktail Coffee Cake

A coffee cocktail in cake form
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 12
Author Charlie H-S

Ingredients

For the cake (makes two layers)

  • 125 g Caster sugar
  • 125 g Demerara sugar
  • 250 g Butter softened
  • 4 Eggs
  • 250 g Self raising flour
  • 1 Double shot espresso or 2 heaped teaspoons of instant coffee dissolved in water
  • 50 ml Jameson Irish Whiskey

For the cream

  • 300 ml Guinness Export
  • 1 Vanilla pod or a teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 200 ml Double cream
  • 1-2 tsp sugar syrup
  • 1 tbsp Malt extract optional
  • 20 g High cocoa content chocolate optional

Instructions

For the cake

  1. Preheat your oven to 160C (Gas Mark 3).
  2. Grease and line two smal cake tins.
  3. Beat the sugars and butter together until creamy.
  4. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs then add to the mixture a little at a time.
  5. Add the cooled coffee to the mixture and mix until combined.
  6. Sift in the flour and fold until it just comes together.
  7. Pour into the tins and pop into the oven for around 30 minutes.
  8. Check your cakes after the 30 minutes with a skewer, and when the skewer comes our clean, they're finished and can cool on a cake rack. If not, let them cook a little longer.
  9. Meantime pour the Guinness into a pan and put it on the heat.
  10. Split the vanilla pod and put it and the seeds into the pan (or simply add the extract).
  11. Stir in the malt extract and cook on the hob until it has reduced and is almost syrupy (15-20 mins).
  12. Cool.
  13. Once cooled, mix into the double cream, according to taste (this is where you may need the sugar syrup to balance it), and beat until soft peaks form.
  14. Spread between the two layers of cake, with a light grating of dark chocolate (optional).

Recipe Notes

This is, as any cocktail will be, very much down to taste. Which might mean you need to make it more than once.
Which would be dreadful... Right?

Adapted from Vintage Cocktail Club/Bon Appetit