Mocha Cake

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180º C. Grease a baking tin with a little butter.
2. Take butter and castor sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater till the mixture is light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and beat again.
3. Add refined flour, coffee powder mixed with 2 tsps water and baking powder and fold in well.
4. Pour this batter into a greased baking tin and bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes.
5. To make mocha sauce, take castor sugar, honey, ¼ cup water, milk powder and coffee powder in a non-stick pan and heat, whisking continuously till the sugar dissolves and all the ingredients blend well with each other.
6. Pour the sauce into a bowl and set aside to cool down to room temperature.
7. To make syrup, take coffee powder, 2 tbsps water in another non-stick pan and heat, stirring, till sugar melts. Transfer this into another bowl and cool slightly.
8. Bring the cake out of the oven, keep it on a serving platter and pour the sugar syrup over it.
9. Decorate with whipped cream and serve with mocha sauce.

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