Baking
Coffee Buttercream
Ingredients
- 75 gr. (3 oz.) softened butter
- 225 gr. (8 oz.) icing sugar
- 2 tsp. coffee granules (dissolved in
- 2 tbsp. boiling water)
- Enough to fill and top a 20 cm. (8") cake
Method
1
Cream the butter until soft and creamy.
2
Add the icing sugar a little at a time (too much and you will be covered in icing sugar!).
3
Halfway through adding the icing sugar, pour in the dissolved coffee then continue beating until it is light and fluffy.
4
Enough to cover and fill cake as above.
5
Alternatively, the two sponges can be individually sliced, filled and topped to make two small coffee cakes.
