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Qahwa and Walnut Cake (Arabic coffee cake)

Ingredients

  • 200g Gluten-free Guru self-raising flour
  • 200g Soft butter
  • 200g Soft light brown sugar
  • 2 tsp Baking powder
  • 2 tsp Coffee essence
  • ¼ tsp Ground cardamon
  • 4 Eggs
  • Chopped walnuts

Icing

  • 325g Icing sugar
  • 75g Butter
  • 2 tbs water
  • 25g Caster sugar
  • 2 tsp coffee essence
  • Pinch of cardamon
Oven: 175°C

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 175°C and grease baking tin.
  2. Sift GFG flour into a bowl.
  3. Add butter, soft brown sugar, coffee essence and eggs.
  4. Beat well until soft and smooth.
  5. Fold in baking powder and walnuts, and spices.
  6. Pour into tin and leave in oven for 30-50 mins.
  7. Take out and leave to cool.

 

For frosting

  1. Sift icing sugar into a bowl.
  2. Measure butter, water, sugar and coffee essence into a pan on low heat, stir until sugar has dissolved and butter melted.
  3. Pour into icing sugar, add spice
  4. Beat well.
  5. Spread on cool cake and leave to set.
  6. Decorate with walnuts.