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Coffee and walnut cake

Coffee and Walnut Cake Recipe

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Prep

20 min

Bake

25-30 mins

Serves

8 to 10

Difficulty

Medium
Coffee and walnut cake
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Coffee and Walnut Cake Recipe

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C Fan / 350F.

Step 2

Lightly butter one 8-inch sandwich tin and line the base and sides with baking parchment.

Step 3

Cream the butter and sugar until pale and creamy, then add the eggs, vanilla and coffee essence. Beat again.

Step 4

Sift in the flour and baking powder, beating with your electric whisk until everything is well combined.

Step 5

Stir through the walnuts and pecans using a spatula.

Step 6

Divide the mixture evenly between the tins. Level the surface using a spatula or the back of a spoon.

Step 7

Bake for 25-30 minutes, until risen and springy to the touch. .

Step 8

Remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes. When ready, turn your cake out onto a wire rack. Peel off the paper and leave to cool completely.

Step 9

To make the icing, beat the butter until smooth and soft, then add half the icing sugar and beat again. Add the milk and coffee essence, as well as the rest of the icing sugar then beat until smooth and creamy.

Step 10

Making sure your cake is completely cool, spread the coffee icing over the top of your cake and decorate the edges with walnut and pecan pieces, as well as some cacao nibs before serving.

TOP TIP

Don't know if your cake is ready? You can insert a skewer or a cake tester to check if your cake is ready. If it comes out clean, you’re good to go. If there is cake mixture on your stick, pop it back in the oven for 5-10 minutes

Ingredients – 9 items

Serving

1

For the cake

Butter

Unsalted butter, softened

100g
Pure Cane Caster Sugar

Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar

100g
Eggs

Large eggs

2
Flour

Self raising flour

100g
Baking-powder

Baking powder

1 tsp
Walnuts

Roughly chopped walnuts

50g
Pecans

Pecans

50g
Vanilla

Pure vanilla extract

1 tsp

Coffee essence

1 tbsp

For the icing

Butter

Unsalted butter, softened

75g
Fairtrade Cane Icing Sugar

Icing sugar

225g
Milk

Whole milk

2 tbsp

Coffee essence

2 tsp

To decorate walnut

Pecans

Pecans

Cacao nibs

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Two of our favourite fruity flavours in one delicious scone triangle! 

Here's how to make them: 

Ingredients 

For the scones

3 tbsp Tate & Lyle Granulated Sugar
Zest of one lemon
175g self raising flour
ΒΌ tsp salt
Β½ tsp baking powder
45g unsalted butter
80ml milk
1Β½ tsp lemon juice (squeeze fresh from the zested lemon)
100g blueberries
A little milk, for brushing the scones

For the glaze (optional)
80g Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar
2-3 tsp lemon juice

Method 

Preheat the oven to 200C/390F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
In a mixing bowl, rub the Tate & Lyle Granulated Sugar and lemon zest together.
Add in the flour, salt and baking powder, stirring everything together.
Tip in the butter and rub in until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Separately in a jug, mix together the milk and lemon juice. Pour into the flour mixture and roughly bring together. Add in the blueberries and mix through evenly, bringing the dough together.
Lightly flour your worktop then tip the dough out, squeezing together to form a disc about 1” thick. Cut into eight wedges, then transfer to the prepared baking sheet.
Lightly brush the tops of each scone with a little milk, then bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes until the scones are baked and golden on top.
For the glaze, mix together the Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar and as much lemon juice as required to achieve the consistency you like. Drizzle over the scones and enjoy!
Yet another dessert mash-up... and this time it's Battenburg Blondies!

A delicious marzipan chessboard you can't help but make a move for, it's your favourite cake with an irresistible new texture...

Serves: 16

Ingredients:
200g unsalted butter
125g Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar
125g Tate & Lyle Soft Light Brown Sugar
ΒΌ tsp salt
ΒΎ tsp almond extract
2 large eggs
225g plain flour, sifted
75g ground almonds
Pink food colouring
6 mini Battenberg cakes (optional)

Method 

Preheat the oven to 180ΒΊC (fan oven). Line an 8” square loose-bottomed tin with parchment paper and set aside.

In a large microwave-safe bowl, add in the butter and both sugars. Heat in 20-second bursts in the microwave until completely melted. Whisk the ingredients together until fully combined. Allow to cool for a couple of minutes.

Stir in the salt and almond extract, then whisk in the eggs one at a time until completely combined. Tip in the flour and ground almonds and mix again until completely combined.

Divide the blondie mixture equally between two bowls. Colour one of them pink using some food colouring, then transfer both into piping bags. Pipe alternating lines of the mixture in the tin, covering the bottom and using about half of the batter to do so. Shake the tin or use a small knife or spatula to help level the batter, then pipe a second layer of blondie mixture on top of the first, topping the pink lines with plain batter and the plain with pink. Again, shake the tin a little to level the top and fill in any gaps. Don’t worry too much, it will also spread during baking in the oven.

Once all the blondie mixture has been piped, place the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. The blondie is done when the top is pale golden and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean or with a few damp crumbs. Cool completely before slicing.

Once cooled, slice the blondie into 16 squares. Top with a couple of slices of mini Battenberg cake if you wish, using a little apricot jam to hold it in place. 

Enjoy!
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Infused with Earl Grey and lemon, these fragrant and floral biscuits are something a little different if you can bear to part with the chocolate digestives...

Recipe below:

Prep Time – 30 mins (4 hours to chill)

Yield – 12 – 16 (dependant on the size of your cutters)

Ingredients 

Biscuits

50g Tate & Lyle Fair Trade – Pure Cane Icing sugar
250g unsalted butter
2 tbsp of Earl Grey Tea Leaves
220g plain flour
Pinch of salt
 Icing

A squeeze of lemon
100g Tate & Lyle Fair Trade – Pure Cane Icing sugar

Instructions

Combine your tea leaves and butter, leaving overnight preferably to infuse. You can cover in a bowl and leave to the side as this mix shouldn’t be chilled.
Add your butter mix to a bowl your sugar and combine, then add the flour salt until a dough forms
Roll out your dough mix until even – about half an inch thick and cut with your biscuit cutter.
Pop onto a baking sheet and into a preheated oven at 180Β°C/ 160Β°C fan/ gas mark 4/ 350Β°F and bake for 15 mins. Keep and eye on them as they can burn quickly.
Whilst they cool make your icing and then drizzle generously once the biscuits are completely cold.
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We've missed making sponge cakes and we know you have too.

So let's make this summer's cake quota as light and fluffy as possible!

Here's a selection of our favourite fillings for a soft and sugary sponge... (Recipe link in bio.)
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