Celebrate International Coffee Day with these recipes
And to celebrate international coffee day on October 1 Aldi has put together two recipes - a mocha cake and a coffee rub for your favourite meat.
Mocha Cake
Ingredients
For the sponge
100g Butter at room temperature
150g Caster sugar
3 tbsp Milk
3 Eggs
200g Self-raising flour
125g Fairtrade dark chocolate
4 heaped tsp Fairtrade granulated coffee
For the Icing
1 tbsp Milk
1 tbsp Fairtrade coffee granules
150g Butter
300g Icing sugar
25g Fairtrade dark chocolate
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 180°/350°F/Gas Mark 4 and grease two 8 inch circle cake tins.
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Hide AdMelt 125g of the chocolate and butter in bowl over a pan of simmering water.
In a small bowl heat the milk in the microwave and dissolve the coffee granules in the milk.
Stir the sugar into the butter and chocolate and add the milk and coffee mix.
Whisk in the eggs one at a time, and whisk in the flour.
Evenly divide the batter into the tins and bake in the oven for 12- 14 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
Cool on a wire rack.
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Hide AdTo make the icing; heat the milk in the microwave and dissolve the coffee granules in the milk.
Mix the butter, milky coffee and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Spread half of the mix over each cooled cake layer and sandwich together.
Grate the chocolate over the top of the cake to create a cappuccino look.
Coffee Rub
Ingredients
1 heaped dessert spoon of Easy Days Ground Coffee
1 heaped dessert spoon Demerara Sugar
1 heaped tsp Smoked Paprika
1 heaped tsp Sea Salt Crystals
1 flat tsp Ground Cumin
1 flat tsp Dried Thyme
1 flat tsp Chilli Flakes
½ tsp Garlic Granules
Method
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Hide AdPut all the ingredients into a mortar and pestle and grind to a smooth rub.
Use 3 to 4g for each steak (or about a tenth of your mixture).
Rub over both sides of the meat and cover and rest out of the fridge for 15 mins.
Then cook to your liking.
Keep any unused rub in an airtight container
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