Coffee and walnut cake

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Coffee and walnut cake
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Type Cake
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.

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History

In 1934, McDougall's published a recipe it called "new". [1]

Ingredients and preparation

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]

Availability

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]

Recognition

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]

Dishes with similar names

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]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 O'Brady, Tara (6 April 2022). "I'd Eat This Coffee and Walnut Cake As My Last Dessert on Earth". Epicurious . Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  2. "Coffee and walnut cake". Good Housekeeping . 27 October 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  3. 1 2 Cloake, Felicity (16 April 2014). "How to make the perfect coffee and walnut cake". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  4. Slater, Nigel (28 September 2003). "The last supper". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  5. Ngo, Hope (15 December 2022). "The Mysterious Origins Of The UK's Classic Coffee And Walnut Cake". Tasting Table . Retrieved 9 July 2024.