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Coffee & Cardamom Loaf. I really love teabreads, loafs. By that I mean a sweet quick bread that is meant to be served with a hot cuppa, not a bread made with tea.
One of my favourite cooking magazines over here in the UK is the Good Food Cooking magazine. I used to have a subscription, but when I lost my job it wasn't something I could afford and so now I only pick it up when there are recipes in it that I am particularly interested in.
The latest issue had a great recipe in it for a basic loaf cake right on the very last page, with some variations on it. I thought this variation sounded delicious!
I just love coffee flavoured cakes and cookies. One of my favourite Canadian Candy Bars is the Coffee Crisp and I always call dibs on the coffee flavoured chocolates in the Roses Chocolate Box!
(They are in the green wrapper!) I have not had a coffee crisp in a very long time now. Sigh . . .
Back to the cake. This is a very simple all in one cake, meaning you just pile all of the ingredients into the bowl and beat them together, then scrape the batter into the prepared loaf tin and bake. Easy peasy.
I love all in one cakes. Especially when they combine flavours such as this one has. Coffee? Love that flavour. Cardamom? Love that flavour also. Coffee & Cardamom together? This HAS to be great!
I had some instant vanilla flavoured coffee left from my last Degustabox and that is what I used for the coffee needed for the cake and the frosting. Some good!
I didn't have any plain yogurt and so I used buttermilk with excellent results! Handy tip here, if you have a recipe calling for yogurt, or buttermilk or sour cream, you can usually interchange them, or make your own sour milk as well.
It makes a cake which is just the right size. Loaf size. Cutting into 8 thick slices. Just perfect for us.
The coffee icing gets spread onto the cooled loaf and I created a white cardamom flavoured drizzle to decorate it with. It looked very nice when it was all done.
The two together looked really pretty I thought. Tasted nice too! This is a really fabulous cake. I highly recommend!
*Coffee & Cardamom Loaf*
Makes one 2 lb loaf cake
For the cake:
175g unsalted butter (3/4 cup)
Preheat the oven to 190*C/375*F/ gas mark 5. Butter and base line a 2 pound loaf tin. Set aside.
Place the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, buttermilk, coffee, cardamom and salt into a bowl. Beat with an electric whisk until smooth. Spread into the prepared baking tin. Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before tipping out onto a rack to finish cooling completely.
To make the Coffee Icing, whisk the ingredients
together until smooth. Spoon over the cooled cake. Allow to set before
proceeding with the optional cardamom drizzle. To make the cardamom
drizzle, whisk those ingredients together until smooth, only adding
enough water to give you a smooth drizzle. Flick it over the top of the
set coffee icing. Allow to set before cutting the loaf into thick slices
to serve.You should get 8 servings.
We both really loved this cake. It went down well with a hot drink and had a lovely coffee flavour. I think next time I will increase the cardamom in the batter slightly. The original recipe called for the seeds from four pods ground, and I erred on the side of caution by adding what I did of the ground. next time I might add a bit more. I hope you will bake it. I am sure you will love it! Bon Appetit!
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One of the cooking sites I like to visit from time to time is Food 52. There are quite a lot of good recipes on that page, as well as the option of saving the ones you like to your own personal cookbook/lists.
When I was in the UK I had a few of their cookbooks and I have replaced a couple since moving back to Canada. The recipe I am sharing today comes from their book Genius Desserts, 100 recipes which will change the way you bake.
It is attributed to Claire Ptak and does not appear on their site. Not that I could find.
In the write up for the recipe they talk about these giving off the vibe of a Canelé. A Canelé is a French Cake from the south of France and they are quite custardy with the flavors of vanilla and rum.
I have eaten Canelé that I bought from a pastry shop in Saint Emilion in the south of France and I will be honest here, these bear not even a hint of resemblance. Not a smidgen in the least!
Having said that, however, they are very tasty cakes. Upside down cupcakes as it were, with beautiful flavors.
They have a moist and tender crumb and you have a beautiful blend of cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and pepper flavors, with only the slightest crunch of rich toasty walnuts. That coffee glaze is the perfect way to top them off.
One of my favorite of all the British Cakes has to be the Coffee and Walnut Cake. You will see it on offer in all of the tea rooms across the UK.
Coffee and Walnuts have a flavor marriage made in heaven. Adding ground cardamom into the mix along with pepper is a genius addition!
I have always loved the flavor of coffee in desserts, chocolates, ice cream, etc. I think cardamom is a flavor that goes very well and in face enhances both the flavors of the walnuts and the coffee icing.
Coffee, walnuts, cardamom. Three flavors that marry perfectly together. (On a side note, don't you just love my tea cloth? It was a gift from my friend Paula for Christmas. I think it is just beautiful!)
WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE COFFEE, CARDAMOM, WALNUT CAKELETTES
I am betting you have everything in your kitchen right now. The original recipe called for ground pink peppercorns. By all means use it if you have it. I used black pepper with perfect success.
- 3/4 cup (75g) walnut halves
- 1 1/2 cups (210g) plain all purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp each baking powder and baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
- 1/2 tsp salt (I use salted butter so leave this out)
- 1 tsp ground cardamom (you can use cardamom pods, remove the seeds and grind them in a spice grinder)
- 1 tsp ground pink peppercorns (I used black)
- 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
- 3/4 cup plus 1 TBS (180g) butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup (150g) granulated sugar (In the UK use castor sugar)
- 2 large free range eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup plus 2 TBS (210g) crème fraiche (I used sour cream)
For the glaze:
1 1/2 cups (185g) sifted icing sugar
2 - 3 TBS freshly brewed strong coffee or espresso
I just threw about 1 TBS of instant coffee granules into a small cup and added some boiling water. I didn't bother to cool it down in order to add it to the icing.
Pink peppercorns are not something which I have routinely in my kitchen and I would not go out and buy them specifically for a recipe such as this.
Pink peppercorns have a flavor that is very similar to black pepper, perhaps being a bit milder, with a hint of sweet and fruity. Black pepper makes a very suitable substitute.
There is nothing very difficult about making these cakes. It is a typical butter cake batter, baked in medium muffin cups.
You do want to butter your muffin cups really well so that the batter doesn't stick and dust them lightly with flour or bread crumbs, tapping out any excess.
She does suggest warming your walnuts first to release their natural oils. I usually toast my nuts, but today I warmed them as per her instructions.
If I make these cakes again, I will definitely toast them. Just make sure you bring them back to room temperature before using them in the cake. They need to be finely chopped. I use my zyliss food chopper.
You need to sift together the flour, soda and baking powder in a bowl. Then stir in the spices and the walnuts. The room temperature butter gets creamed together with the sugar until it is light and fluffy.
Once that happens you can beat in the eggs, one at a time. If you see the mixture beginning to curdle, you can beat in a TBS of the flour mixture. Beat in the vanilla.
Once this is done you can stir in the flour, only until it is just mixed in and no dry streaks remain, and then you stir in the crème fraiche (sour cream) just to combine.
The mixture gets divided between the prepared baking cups and baked for 20 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through the bake time. They are done when the tops spring back when lightly touched and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Leave them to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before tipping them out onto a wire rack to finish cooling completely. You want to leave them upside down in preparation for glazing.
Once they are completely cold, whisk together the glaze ingredients, only adding enough coffee to give you a thick pourable glaze.
Spoon this mixture over top of each cakelette and leave it to set before serving. Store any leftovers in an airtight container.
I have not frozen them, nor have I baked them in any other sized container. I do think they would freeze well however, without glazing.
These cake are cakes that actually improve in flavor with each day that passes. That has been my experience anyways. The first day they were good, but each day they have become tastier.
I suppose that is as the flavors start to mellow out. I think they are fabulous and I highly recommend!
These were the perfect cake to begin the new year on! Happy 2022 people! I am really looking forward to exploring new flavors, tastes, recipes, etc. with you this year!
I am a huge fan of crumb cakes. Crumb cakes are a type of a coffee cake which are created by first making a dry crumb mixture. Some of that is removed and reserved for a topping and the remainder is mixed with wet ingredients to create the cake base, with the reserved crumbs being sprinkled on top prior to baking.
I just love them. They are always moist and delicious. The perfect weekend cake to enjoy with a hot drink and to share with family or/and friends.
This weekend is the Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, a time when we will all be getting together with our families to celebrate all the things we are thankful for, and boy do we have a lot to be thankful for this year!!
With the slowing down of Covid, and with precautions in place, we are now able to get together fairly safely with our loved ones and celebrate all of the things which we are grateful for!
It's been almost two years now since I made my way back to Canada in the middle of the Pandemic, and I am finally, this weekend, getting to see my oldest son and his family. I am so looking forward to it.
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What better way to celebrate than with an easy crumb cake recipe. One that will be deliciously enjoyed with hot coffee (for them). The perfect thing to wake up to on a weekend morning!
These are the best kinds of cakes for weekend entertaining. Well, for breakfast entertaining any day of the week, I guess!
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Simple to make and oh so tasty when done. Lovely and moist from the use of yogurt/sour milk, this cake is nicely spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. You could also add some cardamom if you are keen. (I love the slightly citrus flavor of cardamom.)
This goes together very quickly with the use of a food processor. You could of course cut the butter into the dry mixture by using a pastry blender, but a food processor does it in seconds! If you have one, I highly recommend using it!
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WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE PIE PLATE CRUMB CAKE
Ordinary store cupboard baking ingredients. There is nothing complicated here!
- 1 1/2 cups (210g) plain all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup (150g) white sugar
- 1/3 cup (65g) firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup (120g) butter
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 large free-range eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup plain yogurt or sour milk
- raspberry jam (optional)
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You can use unsalted butter if you wish, but I only ever really keep salted butter in my kitchen. I prefer to cut back on the salt in recipes rather than have to keep two separate kinds. I just don't bake enough to get them both used.
Plain all-purpose flour. Simple.
I like to grate my own nutmeg. It tastes so much nicer when you grate it fresh. And as I said, you could add 1/4 teaspoon of ground cardamom if you wished for an extra touch of spice.
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I use pure vanilla extract for all of my baking and free-range eggs. I refuse to support an inhumane industry. I buy my eggs just around the corner from where I live. I can see the chickens out in their run when I pick up my eggs.
Having worked in a battery hen house grading eggs for my first father-in-law many years ago, and now having the choice to buy free range, I would never buy caged eggs. Never. With me it's a matter of principle.
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HOW TO MAKE PIE PLATE CRUMB CAKE
Nothing could be easier. This makes a lovely, moist and delicious, flavor filled, 9-inch cake.
Preheat the oven to 350*F/180*C/ gas mark 4. Butter a 9-inch-deep pie dish very well. Place the dish onto a baking sheet and set aside.
Place the dry ingredients into the bowl of a food processor. Blitz to combine.
Drop in the butter and pulse a few times to make fine crumbs. Remove 1/2 cup (90g) and set aside.
Add the eggs, vanilla and yogurt to the remaining crumbs in the food processor and pulse to combine into a smooth thick batter.
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Scrap the batter into the prepared pie dish. If using jam, make 4 or 5 teaspoon sized dollops on top and swirl in with a toothpick decoratively. Sprinkle the reserved crumb mixture evenly over top.
Bake for 40 to 50 minutes until the cake springs back when lightly touched and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Leave to cool completely in the pie plate and serve from the plate, cut into wedges.
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You just want a slight swirl of jam. I think lemon curd would also be lovely as would some orange marmalade. Yummo!
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This is a fabulously tender cake, with a beautiful moist crumb. It is wonderfully spiced. I love the crumb topping with gives a nice crunch to the finish. Oh, and I do recommend adding the jam if you are a jam person.
Even without a hot drink, this is fabulous! I really hope that you will be inspired to bake and enjoy this cake! It's just the right size as well!
Moist, delicious, nicely spiced, not to large. What are you waiting for! Get baking! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Some other delicious breakfast cakes we have enjoyed on here are:
GLAZED CHERRY COFFEE CAKE -This is a fabulous breakfast cake. It goes together quickly and tastes delicious! With a lovely cherry filling and sweet glaze, it always goes down a real treat!
HAZELNUT AND CHOCOLATE CRUMB CAKE - This delicious moist cake with it's moreish nutty chocolate crumb topping is most delightful served up when still slightly warm from the oven . . . so you get just a tiny bit of ooze from the chocolate in the crumble . . . fabulous with a hot bevvie . . . or an ice cold glass of milk.
Old Fashioned Pie Plate Crumb Cake
Yield: 6 - 8
Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 50 MinTotal time: 1 Hour
This tender crumb cake is a deliciously tender cake with a lovely crumb topping. Very easy to make. A food processor helps to speed up the process.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (210g) plain all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup (150g) white sugar
- 1/3 cup (65g) firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup (120g) butter
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 large free-range eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup plain yogurt or sour milk
- raspberry jam (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350*F/180*C/ gas mark 4. Butter a 9-inch-deep pie dish very well. Place the dish onto a baking sheet and set aside.
- Place the dry ingredients into the bowl of a food processor. Blitz to combine.
- Drop in the butter and pulse a few times to make fine crumbs. Remove 1/2 cup (90g) and set aside.
- Add the eggs, vanilla and yogurt to the remaining crumbs in the food processor and pulse to combine into a smooth thick batter.
- Scrap the batter into the prepared pie dish. If using jam, make 4 or 5 teaspoon sized dollops on top and swirl in with a toothpick decoratively. Sprinkle the reserved crumb mixture evenly over top.
- Bake for 40 to 50 minutes until the cake springs back when lightly touched and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Leave to cool completely in the pie plate and serve from the plate, cut into wedges.
Notes
To sour your own milk: Add 1 TBS of lemon juice to a cup and fill with whole milk to the one cup measure. Leave to clabber for at least 10 minutes.
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I was saying the other day how very much I love to have a good cake in the house. There is something so special about being able to sit down with a nice hot drink and a piece of cake. The world around you can be in chaos but if you have a piece of cake and a drink in front of you, somehow things seem to be a little bit more tolerable.
I am no stranger to cake on here, and over the past thirteen plus years of running this recipe page, I have baked many, many cakes. All of them are delicious because well . . . cake. I tend to only show the recipes that I feel are highly successful and what I think you, my readers, will enjoy.
I do have my favorites however, and these are cakes that I return to bake time and time again. These are the ones that I love above all others. I thought it would be fun today to share my top ten favorite cakes with you and why, so here we go!
RASPBERRY YOGURT CAKE - I love cakes which are made with sour cream and yogurt. Adding sour cream or yogurt add moisture and makes for a lovely tender crumb. This is a beautiful cake, with a lovely moist crumb. Its light in texture and filled with pockets of sweet tart raspberries.
QUEEN ELIZABETH CAKE - We are especially fond of this old, old recipe for Queen Elizabeth Cake. I don't expect there is a Canadian community cookbook without a version of this in it. It goes way back.
It is a simple and delicious cake! The dates make it incredibly moist. It is also studded with plenty of toasted walnuts. Topped with a sweet caramel icing and sprinkle of coconut, this is a real treat!
RASPBERRY CELEBRATION CAKE - This is always my birthday cake of choice. It is a deliciously buttery sponge, filled with fresh raspberries and baked into two moist layers.
The cooled layers are then sandwiched together with a lovely vanilla butter cream icing and some seedless raspberry jam, and then drizzled with more sweetness with a lovely glaze icing. This is one very moreishly scrummy cake.
TRADITIONAL SEED CAKE - Seed cake is actually a very traditional cake which goes way back in British history. It was very popular in Victorian times, and a good seed cake recipe would have been included in most cookery books of that era.
It has a texture very similar to a pound cake and is studded with caraway seeds. It was said to be William Wordsworth's sister Dorothy's favorite cake. All I can say is that she had exceedingly good taste!
I absolutely adore enjoying a nice slice of this with a hot cup of herbal tea.
FRENCH ALMOND, PEAR & CARDAMOM CAKE - This is a lovely cake, gluten free . . . loaded with beautiful ripe pears . . . ground almonds . . . and I added a touch of ground cardamom as pears and cardamom are such a quintessentially beautiful partnership and marriage of flavours.
It is delicious served warm, cut into squares with either lashings of pouring cream or softly whipped cream on top.
GLAZED COFFEE CRUNCH CAKE -Deeply flavoured with strong coffee, this is a moist cake, with a beautiful crumb. Indeed you will find yourself collecting the crumbs on the tips of your fingers to eat. You will not want to waste even the tiniest scrap of it.
There is a fabulously moreish streusel topping stogged full of lovely toasted walnuts. As well the streusel contains chocolate chips and is delicately flavoured with cinnamon. It's crowning glory is . . . a sweet coffee drizzle icing.
ETON MESS CAKE - This cake is so delicious that the Canadian version of Hello Magazine featured it as one of my recipes a few years back when they were doing a feature on me and British Cooking. No small wonder as it is delicious.
A beautiful vanilla sponge, studded with fresh strawberries and topped with crushed crisp meringues. This is a beautiful cake cut into squares and served topped with a dollop of either clotted cream or softly whipped cream.
BUTTERMILK CHOCOLATE CAKE - What cake recipe collection would be complete without at least one chocolate cake recipe and this buttermilk chocolate cake is the best of the best!
This recipe is four generations old. It is fabulously old fashioned one-bowl chocolate cake, and perfect for family celebrations! Moist and delicious as one would expect with a lush chocolate frosting!
MARY BERRY'S LEMON DRIZZLE CAKE - No best cake recipe collection would be complete without a lemon cake of some sort and none is nicer than a lemon drizzle cake. You can't beat that beautiful lemon flavor and the lemon crunch on top.
And when it comes to lemon drizzle cake recipes, you really cannot get much better than Mary Berry's Lemon Drizzle Cake.
SPANISH CAKE - I have really saved the best for the last. This is my all time, absolute favorite cake. So much so that I also recreated it in a small batch version. This cake is so good that I once baked it about three times in one week!
It has a lovely moist crumb, flavored with cinnamon and that brown sugar penuche frosting is to die for. It is the absolute best!
BONUS FAVORITE RECIPE!
I could not post a list of my favorites without mentioning this next cake! It is an all time favorite and has graced the table of any tea party I have ever hosted!
VICTORIA SANDWICH CAKE - I guess when it comes right down to it, this cake has a slight edge on the Spanish Cake. It is not only delicious but very easy whip up at the last minute. You can basically have this baked and be eating it in about 45 minutes tops!
A fabulously tasty buttery cake filled with strawberry jam and topped simply with sugar, this is the best of the best of the best!
And there you have it. A delicious round-up of my all time favorite cakes. Do with it what you will, but if this doesn't tempt you to bake a cake this weekend I don't know what will! Enjoy!
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