Try James Martin’s coffee cake with a difference: flavoured with aromatic cardamom and served with a delicious pistachio cream.
Ingredients
- For the cake
- 200g/7oz
butter, softened, plus extra for greasing - 200g/7oz
caster sugar - 4 free-range
eggs - 3 tbsp strong
coffee - 8
cardamom pods, seeds removed and ground - 250g/9oz
self-raising flour
- 200g/7oz
- For the filling
- 250g/9fl oz
double cream - 1 tbsp
icing sugar - 5
cardamom pods, seeds removed and ground - 60g/2½oz
pistachios, shells removed, roughly chopped
- 250g/9fl oz
- For the icing
- 110g/4oz
icing sugar - 1 tbsp warm
coffee
- 110g/4oz
Preparation method
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
Grease and line a 23cm/9in deep cake tin.
Pour the mixture into the cake tin, transfer to the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden-brown and well risen. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
For the filling, place the cream into a bowl and whisk until soft peaks form when the whisk is removed.
Add the icing sugar, ground cardamom seeds and pistachios and whisk gently until the mixture forms firm peaks.
For the icing, place the icing sugar into a bowl, add the coffee and mix together until smooth.
To assemble the cake, carefully cut the cake in half horizontally with a bread knife and place the bottom half onto a plate. Spread the pistachio cream over the bottom half of the cake, then top with the other half. Spoon over the icing, allowing it to drizzle down the sides of the cake.
To serve, cut the cake into wedges and place onto serving plates.