Coffee Cake

That is my coffee flavoured cake made with custard powder..as I said I would be trying... a variation of the plain Custard powder Cake. I added an egg after creaming the butter and sugar and what I got is a super-moist cake...which was delicious. The only snag is that I used only the original quantity of sugar mentioned in the earlier recipe and so it was less sweet than usual but nevertheless delicious. I think it would be wonderful to layer it with vanilla buttercream after soaking it with some orange juice and finally topping with chocolate ganache... :) A perfect dessert...try it.

Coffee Cake

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup vanilla flavoured custard powder
• 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1-2 tsp cocoa powder 
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar ( you can add 1-2 tablespoons more if you want to)
• 1  tsp vanilla extract
• 150 gm butter, at room temperature
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/4 cup strong coffee

This recipe makes one 9” cake or 8 to 10 servings.

• Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F). Grease a 9" cake tin with butter and line the base with wax paper.

• Put the dry ingredients except sugar in a bowl. Use a wooden spoon and mix well.

• Beat the butter until light in a large bowl and then add the sugar and beat well until fluffy.Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat again. 

• Now combine the milk with coffee. 

• Add the dry ingredients to the butter mix (in 3 batches) alternating with the coffee-milk mixture(in two batches).

• Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake at 180C (350F) for about 45 minutes to an hour or till the cake is done and a skewer poked into the cake comes out clean. Sometimes, depending upon your cake tin and the oven, this cake might take about an hour to cook especially in the middle.
• Cool on a rack and serve.

snack

Custard Powder Cake

What would you do if a very dear friend gets transferred...... to some place miles and miles away... and you miss them so badly....
:) I usually have a habit of baking something to push away the gloom..(believing that the process of creating something takes my mind off the subject...:) Anyway...I decided to bake a cake (with some custard powder she had given me) and after searching the net for a recipe, I came across this one ..(and several others which were almost similar)... All recipes were eggless ones, very easy to make as you just mix all the ingredients together..no creaming, folding, etc...
The cake came out pretty well..not too sweet, rose well considering the fact that it contains no eggs..you can call it an eggless yellow cake. It can be layered with jam or some preserves and frosted with buttercream and made into a special dessert.
I think I'll try variations of this..maybe with an egg or some coffee flavour and let you know. Now I am posting this recipe which I picked from https://www.mydiversekitchen.com/recipe/egg-free-custard-powder-snack-cake-recipe  ...

 

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup vanilla flavoured custard powder
• 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1  tsp vanilla extract
• 150 gm butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup milk

This recipe makes one 8” cake or 8 to 10 servings.

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F). Grease an 8" cake tin with butter and line the base with wax paper.
   Put all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Use a wooden spoon and mix well.
2. Add the milk and the butter and beat with the spoon until you get a smooth batter.
3. Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake at 180C (350F) for about 45 minutes to an hour or till the cake is done and a skewer poked into the cake comes out clean. Sometimes, depending upon your cake tin and the oven, this cake might take about an hour to cook especially in the middle.
4. Cool on a rack and serve.snack