There are many coffee cakes but this is a classic recipe with the flavors spot on. A moist, deep flavored cake that sports a topping with an unmistakable coffee aroma. The addition of coffee to the cake batter not only infuses the cake with more flavor but also perfumes your home with the heavenly aroma of coffee. The cake tastes good on its own but its outright delicious when adorned with coffee butter cream frosting.
1 Preheat oven to 175 C. Grease and flour a round baking pan.
2 Sieve maida and baking pwd thrice and keep aside.
3 Add instant coffee pwd to the boiling water and allow to dissolve. Keep aside.
4 In a bowl, cream butter and sugar till smooth and creamy. Add one egg at a time and beat till well combined. Add vanilla essence and coffee mixture and combine.
5 Add the flour in three additions alternating with milk, starting with flour and ending with flour. Do not over beat, just mix till well combined in low speed.
6 Pour batter into the greased and floured pan. Bake in preheated oven for 35 mts or till a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Place on a wire rack to cool for 15 mts. Remove cake from pan and prepare frosting.
7 To prepare butter cream frosting/icing, beat butter and icing sugar on medium speed for 3 mts till smooth and creamy.
8 Add coffee mixture, vanilla essence and beat for 2 mts on medium speed and you will have a frosting of spreading consistency.
9 Spread the frosting on the cooled cake only on the top or all over including the sides. Top with nuts of your choice or almond praline or chocolate gratings. Chill the cake for 30-45 mts for the frosting to set. Slice and serve.
Yes, you can make it eggless. Omit eggs and replace butter with 1/2 cup cooking oil, use 1 1/2 tsps baking pwd. If the batter is too thick, add more milk.
Can eggs only be replaced and butter retained? Any sepcific reason for you to include oil in place of butter?
Yes, you can use butter too. I found the results good when I use oil for eggless cakes.
I dont eat or drink any caffaine products. Could you please let me know if coffee can be replaced by any other ingredient.
You can use cocoa in place of coffee.
Very yummy – What kind of oven do you use for baking? I am looking to buy a oven – Any recommendations?
I use an OTG (Oven/Toaster/Grill) Murphy Richards brand for my baking.
The cake is simple and gorgeous. This cake will adorn my dining tomorrow.
Scrumptious coffee cake with beautiful frosting….
Its an honor to have a cake baked out of my site…that too by you…Mde my day!!!
Wow.. I can't wait to try this recipe, love anything coffee. Over the last week I have tired egg dum biriyani, capsicum chicken and Gutti Vankai from your blog, loved all of them. They came out great. Thanks a ton.
super duper pic and i guess its delicious…will try it…but one question…can i use bru coffee powder?
I tried chocolate banana bread today…everything was good but it had cracks…could you tell me what might have gone wrong? many thanks and love to nehal.
Yes, you can use Bru Instant Coffee granules. Indian coffee brands are usually not fully pure but have some chicory along with pure. If using pure instant coffee granules, 2 tbsps is good enough. If using Indian brands you can add about 2 1/2 to 3 tbsps of instant coffee powder.
Cracks on the cake usually occur when the oven is too hot and if the baking tray is place on the top rack of the oven. Oven temperatures vary from oven to oven. So reduce the temperature of your oven slightly as compared to the oven temp specified in the recipe. Place cake tin in the middle rack of the oven. Also reduce the amount of baking pwd or baking soda slightly.
This is so coffeelicious and decadent..
Wow, that is simply mouthwatering. I love the coffee butter cream frosting, I would love to have my cake covered in that, too! I saw one of those grill type of rack on tv, where you can rest your cake on while you drizzle it with frosting similar to yours. The cake got covered all over and the excess just slide through. I think that's pretty cool. That makes me wonder if I can use the grill in my microwave oven, lol!
I really enjoy browsing your blog for such traditional dishes! I can't get jaggery and was wondering can brown sugar(light or dark) be substituted in the sweets like payasams and laddus, etc, without altering the taste…..Thanks!
i recently found your site and was so happy. its great and u know 1 of my best friend's name is also sailu. anyway your site is so helpful for me. pls can u help me out with receipes made in microwave. i just want to learn. and the coffe flavoured cake is really yummy. going to prepare soon. i recently bought microwave (convection) and want to try some good receipes. i hope u will help me. it would be grt.
Can I make this cake using a pressure cooker? If 'YES' can u tell me how to do this using a pressure cooker as in India we do not have ovens.
Yes, you can use a pressure cooker to bake cakes. Its been ages since I baked in a pressure cooker. Will try baking in a pressure cooker and probably do a post on it for your sake.
am a keen follower of ur recipes. all of them r lovely. i too am fond of baking. are cakes baked in microwave as good as d ones in OTG? should i buy a micro or an OTG for baking?
I bake in an OTG and I find it the best for baking.
I baked the cake over the weekend for a get-together and it was lip-smacking good. I had never done any sort of frosting on a cake before so I was very apprehensive, but your directions made it a breeze. The cake was much appreciated by all including my daughter who is a very picky eater. Thanks for a great recipe.
Hi Sailu, I want to use Oil instead of butter. How much Oil do i use for this recipe?
1/4 cup oil + 2 tbsps oil.
Hi Sailu, I tried with the oil substitute, except the cake was a little dry. I baked it twice so i know its defintely a little dry.. Should i increase the oil amount to 1/2cup or increase the milk amount to 1/2cup to make this cake more moist with the oil subsitute? Thanks.
Increase the milk by 1/2 cup.
Sailu, when you say chill the cake after frosting the cake, do you mean I refrigerate it for the 30 minutes you have specified.
I think the next time around, I'll use the coffee mixture in the yoghurt cake recipe. I think that will turn out better.
Use butter and not ghee for this recipe.
I tried ur coffee cake yest…and it turned out really well…i was doubtful abt d outcome as I'm experimentin wth my M/W(w/o convection) and know dat m/w cakes dont turn as good as in OTG/M/W with convection…and frankly…it wasnt perfect..the texture wasnt as great as it looks in ur pics…it was lil dry and w/o the perfect browning..bt d issue is with the M/W and not d recipe…just mentioned so that fellow readers using M/W like me would kno wht to expect..
2/ Use 1-2tbsp less flour than mentioned in recipe for better textures and to avoid dryness that m/w cooking introduces.
and thanks Sailaja di for ur awesome recipe..
Use an 8″ round cake pan.
I like the coffee cake pciture, looks great!! Iam so inspired by the recipe and the looks. Iam desperate enough, starting to imitate right away, infact i have started making the cake. The butter egg mixture curdled in the process not looking pleasant, is it normal in the process. If so, pls.let me know. The cake mixture in the final round looks ossum and kids licked the bowls and tools!!!! As you said the coffee aroma is around the house. Hope my cake turns out fab. Thanks for the recipe.
Not sure how this happened. Had I kept for longer the top and sides of the cake may have got burnt?
When the top and sides are done or browned, remove the pan from the oven. Cover the top with aluminum foil and put it back in the oven and bake till the required time.
No, the coffee flavor is not very strong. You can reduce by a tsp of the coffee granules, if you want a milder coffee flavor.
oh, i was hoping for it to have a pretty strong flavor. But i added a very strong type of instant coffee, so that's fine.
is that a round pan?
hi, i love baking and do it often too. Most of the recipes for baking have butter in it. i find that its easy to get salted butter (Amul).however unsalted butter (which is more ideal for baking) is hard to get…any tips/brands to get unsalted butter?Btw, i live in mumbai.
U can get unsalted butter in haiko supermarket, powai.
hi,for buttercream frosting, is it necessary to use icing sugar? can i use regular sugar instead?
Buttercream need sifted icing sugar only.
Hi, Did u bake this cake in an 8″ round pan? can u kindly specify the same.
Hey……Thanku so much for this recipe……….Just wanted to know can I use homemade white butter…??? Please reply..!!
I meant It turned out lovely. I turned out lovely sounds creepy. Ha ha ha.
LOL 🙂 You do not melt the butter. Approx 170 gms of butter that is at room temperature.
PERFECT! Thank you…I made this for my sister's birthday cake and it truly was foolproof and delicious. I decorated it with chopped Nestle Club espresso crisp dark chocolate.
Beautiful cakey amazing recipe thank you!! Will remember this!
HI,Thank you so much for this excellent recipe. yesterday i made it and it came out so well.very delicious.
I am very thankful I found your website , I tried black forest cake , yoghurt cake before and yesterday this mouthwatering coffee cake , and all came out so perfectly, that I have no words to describe it, it is spongy , the texture is so good… Can u tell me which cake decorating equipments you use, as I am new to baking . Thanks a lot.