Coffee Cake

By Karina23

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Ingredients

For the sponge:
6 eggs
6 tbsp sugar
6 tbsp flour
For the filling:
400ml double cream
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
Coffee syrup:
0.5 cup of boiled water
3 tsp coffee
2 tsp sugar
1tsp rum essence
Cocoa powder for dusting

Details

servings 8
Level of difficulty Easy
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 20mins
Cost Budget Friendly

Preparation

Step 1

Separate the eggs, yolks in one bowl and whites in the other. Mix the yolks with sugar and beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold the whites into the yolk mixture and start adding the flour while mixing everything gently with a whisk.

Step 2

You are now ready to bake your sponge. Line a 9 inch springform cake tin with baking paper and pour in half of the sponge mixture. Place in a preheated oven at 180-200 degress c for 15 mins. Once one layer of sponge is baked, remove from the cake tin and place on a cooling rack. Place a new sheet of baking paper in the tin and pour in the remaining sponge mixture and place in the oven for 15 mins.

Step 3

While the last layer of sponge is baking you can quickly whip up the double cream. Pour the double cream in a bowl, add the sugar, vanilla extract and whip until the cream forms peaks.

Step 4

While both sponge layers are cooling on the rack, you can make the coffee syrup. Add coffee granules, sugar and rum essence to half a cup of hot boiled water and give a good stir.

Step 5

When the sponge layers have cooled you can start putting together the cake. Pour the coffee syrup onto a large plate and dip one side of the sponge layer in to it, make sure it covers one side completely, but is not too soggy.

Step 6

Place the sponge layer covered in coffee syrup on a plate and cover in cream. Dip the next sponge layer in coffee syrup and place on top of the other, covering in cream again. Carefully spread the cream over the sides of the cake and voila, your cake is finished! Dust some cocoa powder on top and place in the refrigerator for half an hour to set.

You can vary the sugar content in the cream and coffee syrup as you wish.