Toffee Almond Coffee Cake - Rouba Shahin Middle Eastern Cooking

Ingredients

• 250 grams unsalted butter, softened
• 2 cups caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• ½ teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 2 ½ cups plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee
• ¼ cup of hot water
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• OR alternatively a ¼ cup of short black coffee with sugar
• 500 ml thickened cream
• 250 ml reduced fat cream or Ashta
• 1 ½ tablespoons icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon of the prepared coffee
• 200 grams roasted almonds
• ¾ cup sugar