Nothing beats the taste of a cup of tea to warm you up in the cold weather, but one thing that may be even better is a buttery sweet treat to go with your toasty beverage. Coffee cake is one of the most popular homemade cake recipes due to its rich unique flavour but it is also incredibly easy to bake . Jamie Oliver’s “best” coffee and walnut cake is so easy that a child could help bake it as it only takes roughly 10 to 15 minutes to prepare the mixture before it goes in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
On his website, Jamie said: “This cake is a favourite afternoon pick-me-up, but you can use decaf coffee if you are baking for children or anyone sensitive to caffeine.” This is the perfect recipe to impress loved ones or to make for yourself on a free afternoon as a delicious dessert to have on a frosty autumn evening. How to make Jamie Oliver’s coffee cake recipe For the cake: 175g of unsalted butter (at room temperature) 75g of walnuts 175g of sugar Three large eggs 150g of self-raising flour Half a teaspoon of baking powder 50ml of cold espresso For the cake filling: 65g of unsalted butter (at room temperature) 125g of icing sugar 40ml of strong espresso For the cake icing: 100g of icing sugar 20ml of strong espresso Preheat the oven to 180C or Gas Mark 4, then grease two cake tins with butter and line with baking paper.
Place two-thirds of the walnuts in a food processor and blitz them into a fine powder. Then cube up the butter, place it in a bowl with sugar an.
