Irish coffee cake

Coffee, cake or a drink?

Why not just have them all?!

 

I love coffee and my dear hubby just loveslovesloooves whiskey. And you know what, we both really loved this cake.

I´m slowly trying to get my taste buds around the golden wonder that they call whiskey. As I´m not quite at the oh-I-feel-like-a-glass-of-whiskey-every-once-in-a-while -mode, yet I just have to think of other ways of consuming it.

Form cake: not too bad a choice.

Normally, I get my ideas for recipes from one or two ingredients. Sometimes, they start building up through some sort of visions or images. You know, when you imagine eating something at some specific moment.

The vision for this cake came through a comfy-treat-yourself -picture. I wanted to make this flavor-rich indulgence for moments when you just want to curl up in your Chair (not a, but the), read a book, have a nice drink and then, eat a big piece of cake.

This cake almost shouts these kinds of moments.

In it´s spiciness and comfiness I quess this cake is also pretty Christmassy. I bet if you whip up something like this as a present for your dad or granddad, they´ll be very pleased. Just remember to tell the it´s a WHISKEY cake - very fancy and manly.

For one big as cake (2 litre cake mold):

200 g butter

3 dl sugar (you can pop 1 dl of muscavado instead of caster to get the flavors deeper)

3 eggs

2 dl strong good quality coffee

0,5 dl non-smokey whiskey (Jameson works well)

2 dl cream

6 dl wheat flour

1 ts ground clove

1 ts ground cinnamon

½ ts nutmeg

pinch of salt

pinch of powdered white pepper/black pepper (if you use white, add very little)

½ ts baking powred

½ ts baking soda

2 tbls chocolate powder

Mix all the dry ingredients together. Mix sugar and butter together and whip until the mixture is white and creamy. Keep whipping  and the eggs one by one and after add the liquids and the dry ingredients into the mixture by turns. Whip the mixture smooth. Pour into a cake mold (if not silicone rub some butter to the sides so the cake won´t stick). Bake in 160°C oven for about 1 hour. Check towards the end if cake is ready by sticking a wooden stick in the middle of the cake. If it comes out without any batter on it, the cake is ready. Let cool down.

Whiskey and sugar syrup:

1 dl water

2 tbls muscavado sugar

4 cl whiskey

Add the sugar and the water into a pan and boil until the mixture is a bit syrupy. Add the whiskey. Moist the cake with syrup and cover with cling film. Let the cake chill out for a day or two.

Coffee cream:

2 dl whipping cream

1-2 ts muscavado sugar

2 ts strong coffee or few drops of coffee flavor

Whip the cream and add in all other ingredients. Mix well. Add the cream on top of the cake just before serving. Decorate with coffee beans and dark chocolate.

Happy days! Enjoy! :)

Rakkaudella,

Paula