Square Coffee and Walnut Cake recipe | HotCooking

Ingredients

• 100g walnuts
• 175g room temperature butter (plus more for greasing. I use a 50/50 mix of Stork and butter)
• 175g soft, light brown sugar
• 3 large room temperature eggs
• 175g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• a pinch salt (around an ⅛ tsp)
• 2 tbsp instant coffee (I use Douwe Egberts)
• 2 tsp hot water
• 2 tbsp milk (any, I use soya)
• 125g room temperature butter
• 125g icing sugar
• 1 tsp instant coffee (I use Douwe Egberts)
• ½ tsp hot water
• 4 tbsp double cream (optional)
• a small handful of chopped walnuts to decorate (around 30g)
• a 20cm loose-bottomed square cake tin