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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 is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee and walnuts.
History
In 1934, McDougall's published a recipe it called "new".
Ingredients and preparation
The cake is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee and walnuts. It is made with the creaming method. The coffee flavor typically comes from instant coffee or espresso.
The cake is usually a layer cake, often filled with coffee-flavoured butter icing, and topped with more coffee-flavoured butter icing and walnut halves.
Availability
According to Epicurious it is "ubiquitous" in the UK. Coffee and walnut cakes are widely available in supermarkets in the United Kingdom. It is often offered at bake sales and sold in teahouses in the UK.
Recognition
The cake was the technical challenge in the first episode of Great British Bake Off. English food writer Nigel Slater has said it would be his final meal if he had a choice. Tasting Table called it a classic of British cooking.
Dishes with similar names
The American dish coffee cake is a sweet bread intended to be served with coffee, but which doesn't contain coffee as an ingredient or flavouring. It bears no relation to coffee and walnut cake.
See also
References
- ^ O'Brady, Tara (6 April 2022). "I'd Eat This Coffee and Walnut Cake As My Last Dessert on Earth". Epicurious. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- "Coffee and walnut cake". Good Housekeeping. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Cloake, Felicity (16 April 2014). "How to make the perfect coffee and walnut cake". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- Slater, Nigel (28 September 2003). "The last supper". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- Ngo, Hope (15 December 2022). "The Mysterious Origins Of The UK's Classic Coffee And Walnut Cake". Tasting Table. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
External links
Media related to Coffee and walnut cake at Wikimedia Commons
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