Ingredients
225g butter, softened
225g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cocoa powder, plus extra for dusting
225 golden caster sugar
4 eggs
3 tbsp instant coffee powder, dissolved in 2 tbsp hot water
- Grease and line the bottom of a baking tin
- Sift the flour and cocoa powder into a bowl
- In another bowl, beat together butter, caster sugar, eggs and coffee with hand or electric whisk, until smooth
- Mix flour into egg mixture, mix until just combined
- Spoon into the baking tin and smooth the top
- Bake in preheated oven, 180C for 35-40 minutes or until risen and firm
- Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack, peel off the lining paper and cool completely
White chocolate frosting
115g white chocolate, broken into pieces
55g butter, softened
3 tbsp milk
175 icing sugar
- Place the chocolate, butter and milk in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water and stir until the chocolate has melted
- Remove the bowl from the pan and sift in the icing sugar
- Beat until smooth, then spread over cake
- Dust the top of the cake with sifted cocoa, then cut into squares
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