Honey-iced Coffee Cake

This is a really nice cake from the Woman's Weekly Cakes and Slices cookbook...

Honey-iced coffee cake-

Ingredients:

3 teasp dry instant coffee

1 tab hot water

125g butter

2 teasp vanilla essence

3/4 cup brown sugar

1-2 eggs

1 cup self-raising flour

1/4 cup custard

1/3 cup milk

Dissolve coffee in water, combine with butter, essence, sugar, eggs, sifted flour and custard powder, and milk.Beat on low speed in mixer until combined, then beat on medium speed until mixture is lighter in colour.

Spread into a greased 20cm ring pan. *NOTE* If you happen not to have a ring pan (like me)

you can place a sturdy glass in the tin BEFORE you pour the mixture in. I do not find it necessary to grease the glass as you can just twist it out at the end.

Bake in a moderate oven for 40 min. Stand 5 min, then turn on to a wire cake rack to cool. Spead cold cake with icing.

Icing- *NOTE* I find one quantity enough to ice two cakes.

Ingredients:

30g butter

1 teasp coffee

1 tab hot water

1 teasp honey

1 teasp vanilla essence
1 cup icing sugar, approx

Melt butter in saucepan, remove from heat, stir in coffee combined with hot water, honey, essence, and half the icing sugar. Gradually stir in enough icing sugar to mix to a spreadable consistency.

The finished product!

The front one I only iced half, and dusted the other half with icing sugar because my Father
is not a fan of icing. It tends to give him headaches. The back one we'll have when we have visitors tomorrow. :)