Ingredients

• 170g - flour
• 6 - eggs
• 230g - sugar
• 8 tbsp - butter
• 1.5 tsp - baking powder
• 1/2 cup - cashew nuts (chopped)
• 1.5 tsp - instant coffee powder (dissolved in 3 tsp water)
• 1.5 tsp - vanilla essence
• 1 tsp - butter (for greasing the cake tin)
• 1/2 tsp - flour (for dusting the cake tin)

How to Make Nutty coffee sponge cake

• Sift the flour with the baking powder.
• Separate the egg yolks from the whites.
• Add half the sugar to the yolks and beat it well till it is creamy.
• Beat the egg whites till it is stiff, gradually adding the remaining sugar while beating it.
• Add the egg white and sugar mixture to the egg yolk-sugar mixture and blend it well.
• Add the flour, spoon by spoon and mix it again.
• Add in the melted butter, coffee powder, vanilla essence and mix it well.
• Grease a large cake tin with butter and dust it with flour.
• Pour the cake mixture into the tin and evenly sprinkle nuts on them.
• Bake at 200 degree C in a pre-heated oven for 20 minutes.
• Insert a knife in the centre to check if the cake is done.
• If the knife comes out clean, the cake is done.
• Let it cool and then remove it.