Coffee cake / Mocha cake
Coffee cake/ Mocha cake is a sweet bread common cake spreaded coffee on cake layer top & cream garnishing with chocolate ganache and chocolate chips
It is a common sweet bread in usa
Ingredients: coffee cake
For sponge cake
- All purpose flour/maida: 1 and 1/2 cups(165 grams)
- Sugar: 1 cup (200 grams) blend into a powder
- Oil: 1/4 cup (65ml)
- Instant coffee powder: 3 tea spoons
- Vanilla essence: 1 tea spoon
- Eggs: 3 (room temperature)
- Milk: 1/4 cup
- Baking powder: 1 tea spoon
- Pinch of salt
For coffee:
- Milk: 1 and 1/2 cups (375 ml)
- Sugar: 3 tablespoons
- Instant coffee powder: 2 tea spoons
- Condensed milk: 1/4 cup
For frosting:
- Whipping cream : 1 and 1/4 cup
- Instant coffee powder: 2 tea spoons
Chocolate ganache and chocolate chips for garnishing
Instructions : mocha cake
- Add 2 tbsp of hot water into a bowl
- Add 3 tsp of instant coffee powder
- Mix it well and keep this aside
- Grease 8 inch cake tin and line with parchment paper
- Add 3 eggs into a bowl ( eggs must be at room temperature)
- Beat for 30 seconds on high speed
- Blend 1 cup of sugar and add it
- Beat until it changes into white colour
- It should be reached to ribbon stage consistency
- Add 1 tsp of vanilla essence
- Add ¼ cup of oil canola or sunflower oil
- Coffee mixture
- Mix for few seconds
- Add 1 &½ cup of all purpose flour maida
- 1 tsp of baking powder , pinch of salt
- Sift into a wet grinder
- Mix it gently in cut and fold method (you can sift flour in 2 batches to avoid lumps)
- Add ¼ cup of milk
- Mix with out lumps
- Now transfer this into a prepared tin
- Tap it thrice to remove air bubbles
- Preheat oven at 180° degrees Celsius & for 10 mins
- Bake for 3o to 35 mins until skewer comes out clean
- Add 1 &½ cup of milk into a pan
- 3 tbsp of sugar
- ¼ cup of condensed milk (Optional )
- 2 tsps of instant coffee powder
- Give it a nice stir
- Bring it to a boil
- Turn off the stove flame and let it cool completely
- Now our cake is also baked
- Insert a skewer or knife if it comes out clean your cake baked
- Let it cool completely
- Add 1/4 cup of whipping cream into a bowl
- (I am using non dairy whipping cream which already contains sugar)
- Whip until it reaches to soft peak
- Add 2 tsps of instant coffee powder
- Beat until it reaches to stiff peak
- Our whipped cream is ready
- Take your cake cut into 3 layers
- Pour prepared coffee on all over the cake
- Don’t forget to pour on edges
- Put a big dollop of cream and spread it evenly on bottom layer
- Flip middle layer and place it
- Repeat the process
- (Spread cream all over the cake)
- Refrigerate for 30 mins (not in freezer )
- Garnishing with choc
- olate ganache and chocolate chips
- Refrigerate for 10 mins
- Slice and serve