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Type | Cake |
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Place of origin | United Kingdom |
Main ingredients | Sponge cake, coffee, walnut pieces |
Coffee and walnut cake is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee and walnuts.
In 1934, McDougall's published a recipe it called "new". [1]
The cake is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee and walnuts. [1] It is made with the creaming method. [1] The coffee flavor typically comes from instant coffee or espresso. [1] [2]
The cake is usually a layer cake, often filled with coffee-flavoured butter icing, and topped with more coffee-flavoured butter icing and walnut halves. [1]
According to Epicurious it is "ubiquitous" in the UK. [1] Coffee and walnut cakes are widely available in supermarkets in the United Kingdom. [1] [3] It is often offered at bake sales and sold in teahouses in the UK. [1]
A Battenberg variation of the cake was the technical challenge in the first episode of the second series of Great British Bake Off. [1] English food writer Nigel Slater has said it would be his final meal if he had a choice. [4] [3] Tasting Table called it a classic of British cooking. [5]
The American dish coffee cake is a sweet bread intended to be served with coffee, but which doesn't contain coffee as an ingredient or flavouring. It bears no relation to coffee and walnut cake. [1]