Espresso Cake

An Ex wrote this out for me, from a recipe book he had. He'd never made this cake. It's probably my favourite cake to make, and a bit different from any other I've seen, which is probably the appealing factor. That and its taste that is. The image is a scan from the note paper he wrote it on.

Ingredients

• 1 cup boiling water
• ¼ cup ground coffee
• 200g butter
• 1¼ cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ cup fine ground coffee
• 8 sugar cubes
• cinnamon

Method
Pour boiling water over first measure of ground coffee and steep for 5 minutes. Strain liquid from coffee grounds and pour over butter until butter melts. Mix in eggs, sugar, vanilla and beat until combined. Add flour, baking powder and second measure of coffee and mix until combined.

Pour into 20cm square cake tin and bake for 50-55 minutes at 180°C. Sprinkle crushed sugar cubes over hot cake, cool 10 minutes before removing from tin. Dust with cinnamon and serve with coffee cream.

Coffee Cream
Mix together 300ml whipped cream, 1 tablespoon icing sugar, and 2 tablespoons very strong espresso coffee.