Coffee cake with walnuts (recipe Dirk.nl)

Sometimes you come a #bakrecept against and can't wait to make that once. That's what I had with the coffee cake with walnuts ( https://www.dirk.nl/recepten/koffie-walnootcake/11740?from=search&fbclid=IwAR0d2VxCCAb67fQ6Ueq0KWYfUvrdVT3p8lpVabF_nNhAa0glgWN6kCK8D9Q ). And there would be a visit that week, so the ideal opportunity to make the cake!
Well, I can tell you, it's a keeper! I never had before #coffeecake made, but now I'm at:D

A small adjustment of the recipe (I didn't have enough icing sugar for the icing), so I used 150 grams and 4 tablespoons of coffee instead of the prescribed 175 grams of powdered sugar and 5 tablespoons of coffee. And I liked decorating the cake with half walnuts.

If the link suddenly stopped working (that would be a shame), I'll briefly summarize the recipe.

Ingredients

250 grams butter (I used half butter and half margarine so that the cake doesn't get very fat)
150 grams of walnuts (I used 100 grams + 20 half walnuts to garnish)
1 cup strong instant coffee (I used two bars of Nescafé Gold)
200 grams of flour
Pinch of salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
250 grams (dark) brown caster sugar
4 eggs
175 grams of powdered sugar (I so 150 grams)

Further supplies

Square Cake Mold
Two batter bowls
Frying Pan
Hand Blender
Mixer with whisk (or food processor)
Tablespoon
Tsp
Silicone Spatula

Preheat oven to 180 degrees (grate in the middle of the oven). Grease square cake mold. Toast 100 grams of walnuts in frying pan over low heat (stir occasionally and make sure they don't burn). Let the walnuts cool. Chop these walnuts (e.g. with hand blender). Cut the butter into cubes, add the caster sugar and whisk until creamy. Add the eggs one by one (only when the previous egg is fully absorbed). I always use a separate bowl/bowl to put my eggs (per egg), in case an egg wasn't right).

Put the chopped walnuts with the flour, baking powder and salt in another batter bowl and mix it together.

In the meantime, make the coffee so it can cool down a bit.

Gently scoop one tablespoon of the flour mixture with your batter and whisk with the whisks until it is fully absorbed (this is called family making). Then the rest of the flour mixture can be in your batter. Beat this until you have an even mixture. Add four tablespoons of coffee to the batter and stir it gently (you don't want your batter to become less airy).

Bake the cake in 50 minutes. Check after this time with a satay stick to see if the cake is ready. Does the satay stick come out of the cake? Then the cake is well cooked. Is there any more to it? Then the cake needs a few more minutes.

Let the cake cool down well on a grate and then make the icing.
Sounds harder than it is: weigh 150 grams of icing sugar and mix it with the four tablespoons of coffee into a nice glaze.

Cover the top of the cake with the glaze and garnish with (beautiful) half walnuts.

Nice cup of coffee/tea. Eat appetizing! :)


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