Air Fryer Coffee Cake Recipe
This air fryer coffee cake is soft, rich and full of flavour - a moist, tender and richly flavoured coffee-cocoa base, topped with a smooth, whipped coffee frosting.
Servings: 8 slices
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Silicone spatula (or wooden spoon)
- 6-inch round baking tin
- Greaseproof paper
Ingredients
For the cake batter
- 75 g white caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 1 medium free range egg
- 75 ml vegetable oil (or canola oil, coconut, olive oil)
- 75 ml whole milk
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
- 90 g self-raising white flour (self rising flour)
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder (dutch processed)
- 2 tsp instant coffee powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
For the frosting
- 120 g icing sugar (powdered sugar) sieved
- 1 tsp instant coffee powder
- 60 g salted butter softened
- 1 tsp whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2-3 walnuts chopped (optional)
Instructions
Make the sponge
- Grease a 6-inch round baking tin and line the bottom.
- Put the sugar, eggs, oil, milk and golden syrup in a mixing bowl. Whisk together
- Add the flour, cocoa, instant coffee and bicarbonate of soda. Whisk to combine until lump free.
- Spoon the mixture into your prepared baking tin.
- Preheat the air fryer according to the manufacturer's instructions. Mine defaults to 4 minutes at 205C.
- Fold a pleat into a piece of foil and cover the top of the tin with it.
- Place the cake tin in the air fryer basket, set it to 150C and bake for 50 minutes.
- Place the tin on a cooling rack for a few minutes, then lift the cake out of the tin to cool on the rack completely.
Make the frosting
- Put the icing sugar, coffee, salted butter, milk and vanilla into a bowl.
- Beat with an electric whisk until creamy and smooth.
- Spread on top of the cooled cake with a spoon, forming peaks and swirls.
- Optionally, scatter with chopped walnuts to decorate.
Nutrition
Calories: 295kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 129mg | Potassium: 62mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 27g | Vitamin A: 234IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 0.3mg
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