Today we are showing you how to make this mind blowing stonkingly gorgeous is that enough
descriptive words?
I think so, coffee cake.
Hey folks how is it going, alright mrs b I am fine, welcome to my virgin kitchen oh that
tastes so good, this coffee cake is so good, it is so delicious and so simple to make right,
it is like eating a starbucks, or other coffee brands are available, so if you guys want
to have a go at making this cake, head over to my virgin kitchen website, and there you
will find a list of all the ingredients you need and the full method, plus thousands of
others all the ones rolling back the years I think I have done a coffee cake before but
this one has turned it up a notch, this one I did, mrs barry is getting very good at baking
indeed, it has an optional walnut topping on there, you do not have to use them but
you are going to love it so lets tell you how we did it so you can have a go too, start
the steps mrs b I am going to have some cake, ok you eat your cake I will have mine later,
first thing we did was get a big bowl and cream together the butter and sugar we are
using an electric hand whisk today so we whisk that so that it is light and fluffy you alright
there, sorry was in the zone, just get it light and fluffy baby, like a little chick.
Next we add the eggs one at a time, beating together in between until nice and fluffy,
that is all four eggs yeah all four, I know it was four because we had three in the fridge
and had to go and get another one, it was worth it right, it was definitely worth adding
the extra egg.
Next up is your sieve stage, you sieve in the self raising flour and baking powder it
is going to give it a nice rise, you eating the cake too now, I am delicious, with that
in there you just want to keep folding until fully merged, make sure you get right down
to the bowl folding with a spatula, fold all that flour in, we are still doing it like
that, as we are talking retrospectively, I remember like it was yesterday, in fact it
was yesterday.
Ok so to infuse our cake with coffee flavour love that word infuse, in a small ramekin
we had some espresso powder and mixed that with some boiling water until it formed and
poured that into the mixture and again folded it in, yeah definitely I thought it looked
like mud when first mixing it through but it is more like chocolate after a while, it
is a good look, but do not be tempted to try that espresso as it is off camera I did not
catch this but she was like urgh do not do that.
Divide that mixture evenly into two lined sandwich tins and bake in the oven for mrs
b about 25 minutes oh yes the temperature should be on the screen right now once they
have done that leave on a wire rack to fully cool down, meanwhile you can make your coffee
infused buttercream which is delicious, very good, it is your turn now.
My turn, oh ok, get your room temperature butter in a bowl and beat together with a
spoon and then you add in your icing sugar, I did it 3 or 4 tablespoons at a time, just
to stop that big splash, we have learnt that the hard way and you guys have helped with
that, yeah an icing sugar explosion add in the tablespoons of icing sugar mix it together
and then keep going until it is all used up and well combined with the butter, to drive
some coffee flavour into the buttercream we dissolved some espresso with water and chucked
that in too mixing it through too until you had a light infused buttercream, I just want
to spread everywhere, yeah the colour looked amazing, like a face pack, with the cakes
cooled from the wire rack add on the buttercream icing, get the base sponge, layer that buttercream
icing all over, smooth it all around nice and even and then plonk another on top, right
mrs b yes and then you want to plonk a bit more buttercream gently though spread it all
evenly on the top of the cake, then we added some lovely delicious chopped hazelnuts no
we added bashed walnuts but that is fine other nuts are available we did not use hazelnuts
they were walnuts, oh yeah, does not matter hazelnuts would be fine like a Nutella vibe,
may have to try that, in fact try that do it for mrs b but I hope you agree we take
a slice out of it, we have nearly finished the cake, during this video, absolutely gorgeous,
it is go perfect with a cup of coffee, or cup of tea, I was wondering what you were
going to say then, like go perfect, would you eat coffee cake with a cup of tea?
Hmmm dilemma do you, so that is it then folks hope you give this recipe a go, mrs b smashed
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