Coffee Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons instant coffee granules
• 3 eggs, separated
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons yoghurt
• 2 tablespoons rum or 2 tablespoons brandy
• 1 tablespoon coffee
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 tablespoon cornflour, dissolved in
• 1/2 cup water

Recipe

• 1 grease and line a 7 inch round cake tin.
• 2 separate the eggs while still cold and then keep aside to come to room temperature.
• 3 preheat oven to 180°c.
• 4 mix sugar, coffee and water in a saucepan and heat on sim till the sugar dissolves.
• 5 then bring to a boil and remove from the fire.
• 6 let it cool down slightly and then add the rum.
• 7 (optional).
• 8 sieve the flour and baking powder together 3 times.
• 9 whisk the eggs with an electric handheld beater till stiff peaks form.
• 10 beat the butter and egg yolks with the dough attachment until fluffy and light.
• 11 stir in with fast rotations of a rubber spatula the sugar and coffee mix and the yoghurt and then stir in the flour too.
• 12 fold the egg whites gently into this mixture in two batches using the cut, fold and turn technique.
• 13 where you cut in the cetre and lift the batter gently towards the left side and then rotate the bowl so that you can cut again.
• 14 this should be done quickly but gently with only wrist movements.
• 15 empty batter into the prepared cake tin.
• 16 bake for 40 minutes or so till a tested comes out clean.
• 17 invert onto a serving platter after 2-3 minutes and cool.
• 18 for sauce:.
• 19 boil 1/2 a cup of water with sugar, coffee and butter.
• 20 simmer for 2 minutes while you dissolve the cornflour in the other 1/2 cup of water.
• 21 stir till the mixture thickens and then put off.
• 22 make holes in the cake with a wooden skewer and pour the sauce over the cooled cake.
• 23 let the sauce flow over the side of the cake too.
• 24 cool and serve!