Turkish Coffee Cake

Generally when I have last minute visitors and have nothing available to serve at home with coffee and tea, my quickest solution is a homemade cake. The flavour of the cake can be different based on what I find in my cupboard. If I have some cacao generally marble cake it's my favourite and it's very easy to do. Just takes 10 minutes to prepare then 40-45 minutes to bake off.

If I have some dried fruits such as raisins, cranberry, apricot, candied orange skin generally mix up with a small amount of crushed nuts such as hazelnut, almond or pistachio and the result will be tasty nut and fruit cake. Or sometimes if I have some homemade marmalade such as plum, peach or orange just mix up into the batter. But other day just wanted to try something different and decided to make a coffee flavoured cake. First thought was which kind of coffee flavour I would use ? Would it be instant, espresso or Turkish coffee flavour ? Then I have decided on Turkish coffee flavour. The result was absolutely amazing. The cake was soft and the flavour was well combined. Although we tried just after freshly baked with our Italian guest and got an approval :) but following days the flavour became much better. I would suggest if you ever bake this cake just keep in the airtight container or cake/biscuit tin for a couple of days (if there is no cake monster in the house of course! :)) then try it. And anyone who wants to make this cake find the recipe below:

Turkish Coffee Cake

Heat your oven to 170C

3 medium eggs
200 gr sugar

Mix them well in a bowl. If you are using hand mixer mix the batter in low speed for 5 minutes. When the batter doubled in size add below quantity:

150ml olive oil
150ml milk
vanilla essence
450gr self-raising flour
50 gr Ground Turkish coffee

Mix them all in slow speed for another 4-5 minutes.

Pour couple of drop olive oil inside the cake mould and brush it every every corner. Pour the cake batter into the mould then put in the middle of the oven. Set the timer for 40 minutes first. Then check out when alarm went off with wooden stick or tip of knife if the batter is still sticky then put another 10-15 minutes more to bake. When it's baked well take out from oven and leave outside to cool down 10-15 minutes. During these period you can cover the cake with clean tea towel which will keep the top crust more moist. Then results will be like... 

If you can't find ground Turkish coffee the place where you live then substitute with ground espresso. 

Bon appetit! 

Chef Tulay :)