It’s my birthday today! And what better way to celebrate than making a chocolate cake (or if chocolate isn’t your thing, what about a Coffee and Walnut Cake?). Of course I make my own cake around these parts, but I just love any excuse to get baking!
Traditionally it is a plain cake with little decoration and usually without cocoa. However, I like to mix things up a little and it’s my birthday, after all, eh?
Save RecipeIngredients
- 150g (2/3 cup) butter (melted)
- 100ml (just under 1/2 cup) milk
- 50ml (1/4 cup) brewed coffee (cold)
- 2 eggs
- 200g (1 cup) sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- 40g (5 tablespoons) cocoa
- 180g (1.5 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 50g (1/4 cup) white chocolate (melted)
- Maltesers, nuts or anything else you want to sprinkle (optional)
Directions
~ Pre-heat the oven to 175°C (350°F) and grease and flour (I used cocoa) a medium-sized bundt or cake tin.
~ Melt butter and stir in the milk and coffee.
~ In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until fluffy. Add the butter mixture and continue to whisk until well combined.
~ Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and vanilla sugar and then gradually add to the wet ingredients, being careful not to over mix.
~ Bake for around 35-45 minutes - the cake is ready when an inserted skewer comes out clean.
~ Let the cake sit in the tin for around 20 minutes and then remove it and allow it to cool completely on a wire rack.
~ Melt the chocolate and drizzle over the cake (I let mine run down the tracks created by the bundt tin). Sprinkle with Maltesers, nuts or whatever else you fancy. Enjoy!
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