Coffee Cake

Ingredients

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• 4 large eggs
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1½ cups flour
• Pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup boiling water
• 2 tablespoons coffee (the contributor used ¼ cup machine-ground coffee)
• 155 ml oil (½ cup plus 2 tablespoons)
• Optional untested icing:
• 125 g butter
• 1½ icing sugar (unit not specified in the original recipe)
• 1 tablespoon boiling water
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 2 heaped teaspoons coffee
• 2 heaped teaspoons hot chocolate powder

Method

1. Beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla essence.
2. Sift in the flour and salt, then fold in.
3. Sift the baking powder over the mixture. Do not mix it in yet.
4. Separately combine the boiling water, coffee and oil.
5. Pour the hot coffee mixture over the baking powder; it will fizz. Fold it into the batter.
6. Divide the batter among small baking cups or moulds, filling each about one-quarter full.
7. Bake at 180°C for 15–20 minutes. This timing is for approximately 20 small cakes.
8. Allow the cakes to cool before decorating.
9. Optional icing note: the original recipe included the icing ingredients listed above, but no tested method was provided.