Cake 8, a disappointing coffee cake

I was sickly for a few days, and decided it would be unwise to make cakes in my condition. I did manage to make two in between then and now (I can't remember the dates, so it'll have to stay vague and mysterious). I'm going to post them in two separate blogs, because I did make them on different days.

I made this coffee cake late at night (maybe around midnight), then iced it the next day. Sam very charitably said it looked like a baby had puked on it, and I guess that's what you get when icing is too runny. The cake didn't taste enough like coffee, but I couldn't find what "Edmond's Food For Flatters" describes as "coffee and chickory essence" in the supermarket, so had to settle for strong filter coffee and very little milk. The icing was a bit stronger, but still looked pukey. To compensate, I iced on "25th Nov", and at least now I know what date I made that cake on.

Oh yeah, and orcon denied us internet for a few days, which is why I'm posting all these now.

Coffee Cake

250g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups caster sugar (I never have caster sugar)
3 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbs coffee and chickory essence
3/4 cup milk (I basically used 3/4 cup of strong milky coffee)

Preheat oven to 180 C and line a regular cake tin. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time. Sift together flour and baking powder. Combine essence and milk. Fold dry ingredients and milk alternately into butter mixture.
Bake 50-55 mins.
Coffee Icing

My usual method: put a pile of icing sugar in a bowl and add liquid (in this case coffee) until desired viscosity is reached.

Maybe "food for flatters" is just a sneaky way of saying "average food", because frankly, anything is better than beef noodles and baked beans.