Coffee and walnut traybake
Moist, fluffy, and addictive are the best to describe this Mary Berry’s coffee and walnut traybake, a cake you would love to have for your afternoon cuppa.
Those who love baking will almost definitely know who Mary Berry is, the baking queen from the UK whose recipes are failproof.
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Of all her baking recipes, I love her cake recipes the most.
And because I love coffee, my favorite cake recipe is the coffee and walnut cake recipe. I found it in Mary Berry’s Fast Cakes recipe book.
The coffee cake has coffee in it. You dissolve your favorite instant coffee granules with a little water and use it as your coffee flavoring.
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This traybake recipe will give more ideas for moms with school-age children so that you can make this coffee and walnut traybake next time you have to bake a cake for your school fete. I promise you it will be so popular.
The cake has a smooth sponge texture, and it is very moist. The coffee buttercream is smooth and creamy with the right sweetness that won’t make you sick.
Lastly, the savory walnuts give the sweet cake and buttercream a nice finish.
Versatile recipe
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Although this recipe calls for a rectangle bake tin to make the cake a traybake, you can use a different cake tin. Then, you can turn the cake into an ordinary coffee and walnut cake.
This recipe is sufficient to be divided into two 8-in round cake tins. So feel free to use this recipe for your next coffee and walnut cake.
And if you have a nut allergy, you can omit the walnuts and enjoy it as a coffee cake.
What you need to make coffee cake
Apart from the instant coffee granules and walnuts, this cake requires basic items to make a sponge cake.
In detail, there are 11 ingredients you need:
- Instant coffee granules.
- Baking spread.
- Caster sugar.
- Self-raising flour.
- Baking powder.
- Eggs.
- Milk.
- Butter
- Icing sugar.
- Walnut.
- Hot water.
I appreciate that the baking spread may not be easily available to you. In this case, you can substitute with margarine.
However, I must warn you that margarine tends to have a higher fat content than baking spread. So, the baked goods may be slightly denser or dryer.
Rest assured, though, that your coffee cake will still be delicious.
Fast method
What I love about this recipe is the easy and simple method that doesn’t take much time. It took me about 10 minutes to make the batter and another 5 minutes to whip the coffee buttercream.
The baking itself took about 35 minutes. But I had to leave the cake to cool down before completely putting the frosting on. This took me around half an hour.
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I had the cake ready in about 1 hour and 20 minutes. I think this was fast. Considering the cake has frosting on it.
Tips for making a moist coffee cake
- Baking is like doing chemistry. Every item involved will affect each other according to its weight and value. So measuring in precision is important, as well as the temperature of your oven and the baking time.
- Fresh ingredients. Ensure your self-raising flour, baking powder, milk, and eggs are fresh. Because these items can go stale and off. You want them of their best quality so they can create the nice cake you want.
- Whisk your cake batter until everything is mixed well, and you end up with a creamy and pale-colored batter.
How to store your cake
Ideally, you keep your coffee and walnut cake in the fridge if there is any leftover.
However, the cold temperature will dry the cake texture no matter how tightly you wrap or keep your cake in a food container. So bear that in mind.
I personally store my cake in a cake container with a tight lid on it and leave it on my kitchen worktop. Luckily, cakes usually last only for a few days in our household.
If you need to freeze the cake, you can put the cake in a tight-lid container and store the container in a freezer. It keeps well for about 2 months.
Once your cake thaw, consume it within a few days, and you must not refreeze it.
More cake recipes
You can try this apple crumble cake, carrot cake loaf, simple chocolate cake with chocolate mousse frosting, vanilla velvet cake, or easy sponge cake recipe with oil if you need more ideas for cake recipes.
Thank you for checking this coffee and walnut traybake recipe. I hope you try it and agree that Mary Berry’s recipe gives the best coffee and walnut cake. Please let me know what you think in the comments below. I appreciate it.
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