Easy Vegan Coffee & Walnut Cake
The Viva! Sales, Merchandise and Events Co-ordinator messaged the cookery team to say, “the BEST coffee and walnut cake I’ve ever had!” Wow we’re pretty chuffed with that – try it out for yourselves – a straightforward classic cake and a delicious one at that (so we hear!).
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Preparation time
15 min
Cook time
25 min
Total time
40
Meal
- vegan-desserts
Servings
10
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 400g/2½ cups self-raising flour
- 275g/1⅜ cups golden caster sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 125g walnuts, roughly chopped
Wet ingredients
- 370ml/1½ cups unsweetened plant milk (we used soya)
- 150ml/⅔ cup neutral oil (eg rapeseed)
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp instant coffee granules mixed with 2 tbsp boiling water into a paste (use decaffeinated if preferred)
Butter icing
- 500g/4 cups icing sugar, sieved
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 100g/8 tbsp firm vegan butter, chilled
- 3 tbsp instant coffee granules mixed with 1 tbsp boiling water into a paste (use decaffeinated if preferred)
- Pinch of salt
- You might need to add a little unsweetened plant milk to get the right consistency – only do this tablespoon by tablespoon as it can very quickly get too soft
- 50g/½ cup walnuts, finely chopped (optional)
Decoration
- 8-15 walnut halves (optional)
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan)/350°F/Gas Mark 4.
- Grease and line 2 round cake tins (approx. 8″ diameter).
- In a large mixing bowl, thoroughly combine all of the dry ingredients.
- In a large jug, thoroughly whisk together all the wet ingredients and then set aside for a few minutes.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients and stir until combined (but don’t over-stir).
- Evenly distribute the cake mixture between the two tins. Tap the tins on the side of the worktop (this stops the raising agents from working too quickly).
- Place them in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until lightly golden and a knife/skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool completely.
Butter icing
- Using an electric hand whisk, thoroughly combine all of the ingredients (apart from the chopped walnuts) until you get the desired consistency.
- Stir through the chopped walnuts, if using.
Assembly
- Remove one of the sandwiches from the tin and spread half the butter icing over the top.
- Place the other half of the cake on top.
- Spread the other half of the butter icing over the top of the cake and decorate with walnut halves, if using.
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