Coffee and Walnut Cake

Coffee recipes

The classic. Strong coffee and walnuts in two sponges, sandwiched with a coffee mascarpone cream. Good for an afternoon slice or a birthday centrepiece.

Makes
1 two-layer 20cm cake
Coffee
A strong CafePod
Type
Bake
Steps
6

You'll need: 11 ingredients, all listed below.

A coffee and walnut cake with mascarpone filling

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You'll need

For the sponge

  • 250g softened butter, plus extra for the tins
  • 100ml strong CafePod coffee of your choice
  • 280g self-raising flour
  • 250g golden caster sugar
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 85g walnuts (2 tablespoons roughly chopped, the rest finely chopped)

For the filling

  • 100g icing sugar, sifted, plus a little extra for dusting
  • 150ml double cream
  • 100g mascarpone, at room temperature

Method

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven

    Heat the oven to 180°C. Butter two 20cm cake tins and line them with baking parchment.

  2. 2

    Brew the coffee

    Brew 100ml of a strong CafePod coffee. Pod machine, cafetière or moka pot, any method works.

  3. 3

    Make the sponge

    Beat the butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, vanilla and half the coffee in a large bowl with an electric whisk, then fold in the finely chopped walnuts.

  4. 4

    Bake

    Divide the mixture between the two tins and scatter the roughly chopped walnuts over one of them. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until golden.

  5. 5

    Soak and cool

    Drizzle 20ml of the remaining coffee over the plain sponge, then leave both to cool in their tins.

  6. 6

    Fill and finish

    Beat together the icing sugar, cream and mascarpone, then fold in the rest of the coffee. Spread over the plain sponge, top with the walnut sponge and dust with icing sugar.