Coffee and walnut cake

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.

Coffee and walnut cake
A slice of Coffee and walnut cake
TypeCake
Place of originUnited Kingdom
Main ingredientsSponge cake, coffee, 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.


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