The ultimate coffee walnut cake

[woolymonkey]

I made this to cheer myself up during the UU job fiasco.

I'd been wanting to make coffee walnut cake for ages, but as my baking is generally for someone else's birthday, or a family treat, and the teen monkeys don't like coffee, or walnuts...

But this was MY treat to cheer ME up, so I dug around for a recipe and found this: Nigel Slater's Coffee Walnut Cake (One tiny change: a squirt of honey in the buttercream, nicked from a different recipe.)

It works. Not only did I feel better, but the job crap now sorted, and the teen monkeys like coffee and walnuts :)

I'll be making this again.

Comments

[penknife.livejournal.com]

The cake recipe looks really good, but I'm not sure what I'd do for the golden caster sugar (not one of our supermarket options here). I wonder if turbinado sugar would work ...

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

That reminds me--I changed the sugar too. I never have any kind of caster sugar in, so I used a mix of basic white granulated and some soft light brown. I don't know turbinado (great word, though!) but I reckon you're looking for something with a little more flavour than shiny white sugar, but not with a really strong molasses taste.