Mocha Cake
Recipe
Serves: 6 people | Prep time: 20 minutes | Cooking time: 15 minutes
Spanish | Vegetarian | Dessert
Ingredients
For the sponge
- 100g Butter at room temperature
- 150g Caster sugar
- 3tbsp Milk
- 3 x Eggs
- 200g Self-raising flour
- 125g Fairtrade dark chocolate
- 4 heaped tsp Fairtrade granulated coffee
For the Icing
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 1 tbsp Fairtrade coffee granules
- 150g Butter
- 300g Icing sugar
- 25g Fairtrade dark chocolate
Method
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°/350°F/Gas Mark 4 and grease two 8 inch circle cake tins.
- Melt 125g of the chocolate and butter in bowl over a pan of simmering water.
- In a small bowl heat the milk in the microwave and dissolve the coffee granules in the milk.
- Stir the sugar into the butter and chocolate and add the milk and coffee mix.
- Whisk in the eggs one at a time, and whisk in the flour.
- Evenly divide the batter into the tins and bake in the oven for 12- 14 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- To make the icing; heat the milk in the microwave and dissolve the coffee granules in the milk.
- Mix the butter, milky coffee and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Spread half of the mix over each cooled cake layer and sandwich together.
- Grate the chocolate over the top of the cake to create a cappuccino look.