Coffee Cinnamon Cake

I am not a daily caffeine addict but yes I do need my dose every once in a while. I love it in any form, hot filter coffee/mocha/cappuccino or cold iced and flavoured! But most of all I love coffee desserts. Here's one of my recipes that infuses a cake with the aromatic coffee and the sweet cinnamon!

For this you will need -

1 Cup - 225 gms

1/2 Cup - Butter (Unsalted)
3 Cups - Flour
3 Nos - Eggs
3 Tspn - Baking Powder
1 Cup - Powdered Sugar
1/2 Tspn - Salt
1 Tspn - Vanilla Extract
1/2 Tspn - Baking Soda
1 1/2 Cup - Yoghurt
1 Tbspn  - Coffee Powder
1 Tspn - Cinnammon Powder
3 Tbspns  - Coarsely ground mixture of nuts (cashews/almonds/pistachios) and sugar

9 inch round cake tin

Method -

Grease the cake tin with butter and sprinkle flour and keep it ready. Mix the coffee powder, cinnamon powder and the nuts mixture to form a aromatic mix.

Blend 1/2 cup of butter at room temperature with the eggs, one at a time. Do this till you get a yellow ribbony consistency. Then add the cup of sugar and the vanilla extract and blend again.

Mix the flour with the baking powder and salt and sieve thrice. To this add 2 tspns of coffee powder.

Add the baking soda to the yoghurt and keep aside. It'll immediately begin to froth.

Now add the flour and the yoghurt mixture alternately to the egg mixture and fold all the ingredients.

Now pour half the batter into the tin. Then sprinkle the aromatic mix over the batter.

 

 

Pour the remaining batter and bake at 180 deg C for 30 - 35 minutes.

 

 

 



You will get a moist fluffy cake with a crunchy cinnamony coffilicious layer in the middle :)