Coffee and walnut cake
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Type | Cake |
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Place of origin | United Kingdom |
Main ingredients | Sponge cake, coffee, walnut pieces |
Coffee and walnut cake or Walnut and coffee cake is a cake made with a normal sponge cake recipe with the addition of coffee, usually either instant coffee or Camp Coffee, and walnut pieces.
The cake is often filled with flavoured butter icing and topped with more butter icing and walnut halves.
The cake is widely available in supermarkets in the United Kingdom. English food writer Nigel Slater has said it would be his final meal if he had a choice.[1]
See also
Robert Mullis from Minehead was the inventor of the coffee and walnut cake.
He stumbled across the recipe of this cake whilst doing a catering course at west somerset college in 1994.
External links
Media related to Coffee and walnut cake at Wikimedia Commons