Coffee and Cardamom cake for two
A lovely coffee and cardamom cake that's perfectly sized for two. I've included two icing options, a coffee one and a tahini one, both are lovely so just go with whatever you prefer!
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 2 oz coffee
- 3 oz buttermilk 2 oz milk and 1 oz greek yogurt
- 2 oz oil
- 3.5 oz sugar
- 4 oz flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp cardamom
- 1 tsp vanilla
Coffee Icing
- 2 oz unsalted butter - very soft
- 3 oz of icing sugar
- 2 tsp of strong coffee
- pinch of salt
- pinch of cardamom
- 1 tbsp cream or milk
Tahini Icing
- 2 oz unsalted butter - very soft
- 3 oz of icing sugar
- 1 tbsp of tahini more to taste
- pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp cream or milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F
- Grease a loaf pan (ideally with reasonably straight sides) and then dust it with flour.
- Combine all the wet ingredients in one bowl and all the dry ingredients in a second bowl
- Pour the wet into the dry and mix until just combined.
- Pour the mix into the loaf pan, level it gently with a spoon or a spatula, and then pop it in the oven.
- Bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning it out onto a cooling rack.
- While the cake is cooling mix together your icing by combining the softened butter with the icing sugar and whisk to combine. Then add in the rest of the icing ingredients, give it a taste and adjust to your own preferences. Add more salt if it’s too sweet; add more tahini, coffee or cardamom if you want to really bring out those flavors; and if you want a thinner icing add in some more cream.
- Once the cake is fully cool it’s time to start trimming and assembling. Begin by leveling the top of the cake. If you're making the rectangular cake, slice the cake in thirds to create three rectangles. If you want really straight sides you can also level the sides of the rectangles. For the round cake use a round cake cutter (4 - 5 ") and cut out two or more circles of cake. If you'd like, you can slice these horizontally to get more, thinner, layers of cake.
- Spread a layer of icing on one of your cake slices and then top with another layer of cake. Repeat until you've used up all of the cake and finish by topping with a last layer of icing and decorating with sprinkles!