Today I made that cake I mentioned in the previous post

I was really craving a sweet treat, but wanted to save money and I thought I might as well use ingredients I already have! So I searched the web for a good recipe for a coffee cake.

I found the recipe from the site "Pretty. Simple. Sweet.", the name alone gave me high hopes and I was excited to work hard for a sweet treat 😆

the ingredients

The ingredients

• 245 grams plain flour
• 1/2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 3 tablespoons instant coffee, dissolved in 3 tablespoons of hot water
• 115 grams unsalted butter
• 300 grams of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

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Disclaimer

As I write this post, I just realised that I added over 100 grams extra of butter to the recipe in mine, I had no idea until and don't know how I got the numbers wrong! I think I accidentally read the measurement of the sugar (300 grams) and thought that was the butter...

No wonder my cake came out a bit strange! It's still edible, but I will talk more about how this affected the cake at the end of the post.

My measurements

Seeing as I mention my mistake, I might as well list the changed ingredient measurements that I used.

butter

I used 210 grams, as I misread it as needing 300 grams. I'm glad I put less, really don't know how I didn't realise this!

flour

Because I adjusted the butter measurement, I did only 238 grams of the flour, not sure why really, I thought "less" butter might mean I needed to decrease the flour.

cocoa powder

I didn't actually have this oops!

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The steps

After prepping the 2 pound loaf tin I have with baking paper, I began combining the dry ingredients into a bowl. This was the flour, baking powder and salt.

dry

Next, in a mug, I made the coffee mixture (mixing the hot water with the instant coffee).

coffee

I really like this coffee, it has such a nice strong smell, and a great flavour, so I was looking forward to it in the cake!

After this, I beat the butter and sugar together in a separate bowl. I didn't have an electric whisk with me so a nice arm workout!

light and fluffy

Then, I added in the 2 eggs and vanilla extract and combined this together.

combined wet mixture!

Next, I realised I needed more bowls! Altogether I had 3, one for the dry ingredients, wet mixture, and then the coffee mixed with the milk.
The instructions stated I had to mix the the flour and coffee gradually into the wet mixture, alternating between the two.

Eventually, the mixture was done, and I poured it into the prepared tin.

into the tin it goes

Yeah it's not the most appealing in the mixture above, but please remember I got the butter measurement wrong.

With the oven at 160 degrees Celsius, I baked it for the total 60 minutes.

done

As you can see, a small bit of the flour wasn't completely combined haha. When I flipped the cake onto the plate after it cooled, I was genuinely shocked at how oily it was. I had no idea about the butter at that point.

and then I sliced myself a piece or two.

a slice

I still didn't know, and was so disappointed by the cake

How did my butter mistake affect the cake?

So the cake was super oily and greasy, and when I ate the two slices (without knowing) I was so disappointed because I couldn't taste the coffee flavour at all. But now, it's probably because of the 100 grams extra butter that the flavour isn't coming through 😥

Maybe I'll try remake the cake in the future, with the correct amount of butter. I'm so sad because my mistake cost me a lot of the butter I had just bought.

I'm glad that the cake didn't take me long to make, and that I have a sort of sweet treat. But now I'm really aware of the cake's increase in butter and worried about my cholesterol haha... I'll still eat the cake but not that thrilled.

Hope you enjoyed reading my post