Coffee and walnut cake

Coffee and walnut cake

Type	Cake
Place of origin	United Kingdom
Main ingredients	Sponge cake, coffee, walnut pieces
Media: Coffee and walnut cake

Coffee and walnut cake is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee and walnuts.

In 1934, McDougall's published a recipe it called "new".^[1]

The cake is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee and walnuts.^[1] It is made with the creaming method.^[1] The coffee flavor typically comes from instant coffee or espresso.^[1][2]

The cake is usually a layer cake, often filled with coffee-flavoured butter icing, and topped with more coffee-flavoured butter icing and walnut halves.^[1]

According to Epicurious it is "ubiquitous" in the UK.^[1] Coffee and walnut cakes are widely available in supermarkets in the United Kingdom.^[1][3] It is often offered at bake sales and sold in teahouses in the UK.^[1]

A Battenberg variation of the cake was the technical challenge in the first episode of the second series of Great British Bake Off.^[1] English food writer Nigel Slater has said it would be his final meal if he had a choice.^[4][3] Tasting Table called it a classic of British cooking.^[5]

The American dish coffee cake is a sweet bread intended to be served with coffee, but which doesn't contain coffee as an ingredient or flavouring. It bears no relation to coffee and walnut cake.^[1]

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