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Coffee and Walnut Cake

Ingredients

200g GFG Self raising flour
200g butter
200g brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
¼ cup strong black coffee
4 eggs
Chopped walnuts

For the icing:

325g Icing sugar
75g butter
2 tbs water
25g caster sugar
2 tsp coffee essence

Oven: 180C

Method

Sift flour into a bowl, add butter, brown sugar, coffee and eggs.
Beat well until smooth.
Fold in baking powder and walnuts.
Pour into tin and bake in pre heated oven at 180C for 30-50 mins.
When ready, remove and leave to cool.

Icing

Sift icing sugar into a bowl.
Melt butter, water, sugar and coffee essence lightly in a pan, until sugar dissolved and butter melted.
Pour into icing sugar, mix.
Spread on cake and leave to set.
Decorate with walnuts.