Louise topped her cake with walnuts but because all my teeth are sweet, I topped mine with Malteser but if you wanted to be really flash, chocolate covered nuts or chocolate covered coffee beans would work well too. Louise is a Thermomixer so cleverly converted the recipe to the thermie but I’ve included Granny Barbara’s original recipe here too. i tell you one thing, Granny Barbara knows what’s what!
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How to – Traditional

Preheat oven to 160C and grease and line the bases of two sandwich tins. Using an electric mixer cream the butter and sugar together then add all the other ingredients until the batter is smooth.
Pour mixture into tin and bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from the tin and leave on a wire rack to cool.
To make the icing, use an electric mixer to cream together the butter and the icing sugar then add the coffee. Spread half the coffee icing on the lower half of the cake then sandwich back together with the top half. Spread the rest of the icing on top and decorate with walnuts, hazelnuts or chocolate of your choice.

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