Recipes for Coffee Walnut Cake and Fudge

Cooking with Walnuts and Coffee – Fudge and Cake Recipe

© Elaine Findlay

Sep 8, 2009

In olden days, it was just coffee tables that were made with walnut but some enterprising chef in the early twentieth century dreamt up the idea of combining coffee and walnuts in cooking. The coffee and walnut cake is delicious and is ideal to serve at a coffee morning or afternoon tea.

The fudge makes a perfect birthday or Christmas present and will keep for up to two weeks if put in an airtight container. The fudge can either be wrapped individually in squares of thin cellophane then popped into a cardboard gift box or put unwrapped in a cellophane bag decorated with a ribbon.

Coffee and Walnut Cake Recipe

Ingredients for the Walnut Cake:

• 3oz caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2oz self raising flour
• 1 oz melted butter
• 2 ½ tsp cornflour
• 3 tbsp shelled and chopped walnuts
• ½ tsp vanilla essence

Ingredients for the Coffee Butter Icing:

• 6 oz icing sugar
• 3 oz butter
• 1-2 tbsp warm water
• 2 tsp instant coffee dissolved in the warm water
• Walnut halves

Method:

1. Prepare a 7 inch cake tin by lining it with greaseproof paper or baking parchment
2. Sift together the flour and cornflour into a bowl
3. Cream the butter and the sugar together until nicely smooth
4. Beat the eggs, a bit at a time, into the creamed butter and sugar mixture
5. Gently stir in the sifted flours
6. Add the vanilla essence and chopped walnuts and mix well so the walnuts are evenly distributed
7. Pour into the cake tin and bake at gas mark 4, 180 C, 350 F for about 45 minutes or so
8. Allow to cool on a wire rack
9. Make the butter icing by creaming together the butter and sugar and slowly adding the coffee water until all is combined into a smooth paste
10. Once the walnut cake has cooled, ice with the butter cream and decorate with the walnut halves

Coffee and Walnut Fudge Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ lb granulated sugar
• 4 oz butter
• ½ pt evaporated milk
• ¼ pt water
• 1 ½ tbsp instant coffee mixed with 1tbsp water
• 2 oz peeled and chopped walnuts

Method:

1. Put the milk, sugar, water, coffee and butter into a saucepan
2. Put the hob on a low heat and stir the mixture until the sugar has all dissolved
3. Let it come to the boil and reach a temperature of 116 C, 240 F stirring so it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan
4. Remove from the heat and add the nuts
5. Beat the mixture with a wooden spoon until it starts to thicken
6. Pour into a creased 8 inch square baking tray and allow to cool a little before marking into squares
7. Once the fudge is completely cold and has hardened, cut into squares

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