Recipe: Mocha Cake

With around two billion cups of coffee consumed every day, coffee lovers can celebrate with a new recipe to awaken taste buds in the form of a Mocha Cake to indulge in throughout the day.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Oct 2020, 06:00 BST
Updated 19th Oct 2020, 09:00 BST
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Mocha cake

Ingredients

For the sponge

100g Butter at room temperature

150g Caster sugar

3 tbsp Milk

3 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°/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.

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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.

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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.

Recipes from www.aldi.co.uk

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