Moist Coffee and Walnut Cake with Coffee Buttercream Frosting

Delicious moist coffee walnut cake with coffee buttercream frosting, perfect for dessert or special.

Mmm..?Coffee and Walnut Cake, you can’t go wrong with this one. It tastes so good. If you love coffee and you love cake..this is?definitely?for you!

Moist Coffee and Walnut Cake with Coffee Buttercream Frosting

Recipe by Stay at Home Mum
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Course: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings
+

8

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

40

minutes
Calories

400

kcal
Total time

1

hour 

Moist coffee and walnut cake layered with creamy coffee buttercream frosting, perfect for coffee lovers and special occasions.

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Ingredients

  • 125 gram Butter

  • 1 cup Brown sugar

  • 3 number Eggs

  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

  • 0.75 cup Flour -plain

  • 0.5 cup Self Raising Flour

  • 1 tbsp Coffee

  • 0.33 cup Sour cream

  • 0.5 cup Walnuts

  • Icing

  • 0.5 tsp Coffee Powder

  • 25 gram Butter-melted

  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

  • 2 tsp Water

  • 5 cups Icing Sugar-sifted

Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 160 degrees.
  • Grease a round tin well with butter or line with baking paper.
  • Using electric beaters, beat together the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Add the eggs one at a time and mix well after each addition.
  • In a small cup, mix together the coffee and the vanilla until the coffee is ‘melted’ – if needed add a tiny splash of water.
  • Add the coffee mixture to the bowl and mix to combine.  Sift the flour well.
  • Using a large metal spoon, gently fold in the flour alternatively with the sour cream until JUST combined – don’t overmix.
  • Stir in the walnuts gently. (Save a few of the walnuts to decorate the top of the cake)
  • Pour into the greased tin and bake for 30- 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
  • Let the coffee cake cook on a wire rack.  Serve with coffee icing.
  • Coffee Icing
  • Dissolve the coffee into the hot water.  
  • Mix together the butter, vanilla and coffee mixture, and stir in the sifted icing sugar.
  • Mix together until a smooth consistency and ice your cake.
  • Recipe Hints and Tips:
  • Coffee Cake is suitable to freeze un-iced for up to two months.

Coffee and Walnut Cake is MY FAVOURITE CAKE of all time!

We have the recipe for traditional icing for Coffee and Walnut Cake below, but if you want something a bit more spesh – try the Coffee Buttercream Frosting!

And the icing, the Coffee Buttercream Frosting is beyond delicious.  Here’s how to make the icing:

  • 350 grams icing sugar
  • 175 grams butter
  • 2 teaspoons fine coffee powder (grab granules and process until fine)

Mix the icing ingredients together, then sandwich the two Coffee and Walnut Cakes together with half the icing and the top of the cake with the other half.  Decorate the top of the cake with walnut halves.

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Clare Whitfield Chief Editor
Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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