• Home
• Recipes
• Baking and desserts
• Coffee cake

Coffee cake

• Amanda James

Published: November 18, 2021 at 12:55 PM

Save recipe

Cuts into 18

Easy

Total time: 1 hr

+ cooling

A star rating of 3.8 out of 5.8 ratingsRate

loading...

Get 5 months for £5 when you subscribe today

Our easy coffee cake recipe is nut-free and comes with a creamy cappuccino buttercream. It's perfect for parties, birthdays or just family gatherings

Print

Ad

Skip to ingredients

Alternatives

Complete the dish

Loading...

Make this coffee cake with cappuccino buttercream, then check out our coffee and walnut cake, coffee loaf cake, espresso martini cheesecake, espresso martini cake pops and more coffee desserts.

Looking for more frosting ideas? Try our recipes for homemade chocolate buttercream, basic buttercream and cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients

Nutrition

• 200g butter
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 200g muscovado sugar
• 250g self-raising flour
• 3-4 tbsp instant coffee
• a pinch baking powder
• 2 eggs
• 125g soured cream

CAPPUCCINO BUTTERCREAM

• 250g icing sugar

• 125g butter

  at room temperature

• 1 tbsp mixed with 1/2 tbsp boiling water instant coffee

• cocoa powder

  for dusting

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal351
• fat16.9g
• saturates10.5g
• carbs47g
• sugars36.3g
• fibre0.6g
• protein2.4g
• salt0.5g

Ad

Method

• step 1

  Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.

• step 2

  To make the cake, put the butter, sugars and 250ml water in a pan, and heat gently until the butter has melted.

• step 3

  Take off the heat and stir in the flour, coffee, baking powder, eggs and soured cream.

• step 4

  Mix to a smooth batter.

• step 5

  Pour into a lined 20 x 30cm cake tin (leave some baking paper overhanging to help lift the cake out, once done) and bake for 25-30 minutes, until a skewer comes out cleanly.

• step 6

  Cool, then lift out.

• step 7

  To make the icing, gradually beat the icing sugar into the butter, along with the coffee.

• step 8

  Spread all over the cake then dust with cocoa powder.

Discover more of our easy cake recipes here...

Plus, we've perfected three buttercream recipes too, click here for our expert tips.

Authors

Amanda James

Ad

Comments, questions and tips

Rate this recipe

What is your star rating out of 5?1 star out of 52 stars out of 53 stars out of 54 stars out of 55 stars out of 5

Choose the type of message you'd like to post

Choose the type of message you'd like to post

CommentQuestionTip

Overall rating

A star rating of 3.8 out of 5.8 ratings

Ad

Ad

Loading...

Ad

Loading...

Want to see this content?

This page contains olivemagazine content provided by Google reCAPTCHA. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as Google reCAPTCHA may use cookies and other technologies. To view this content, choose 'Accept and continue' to allow Google reCAPTCHA and its required purposes.

Accept and continue