Coffee Cake

Thanks for Nigel Slater's recipe link...my DH loves coffee walnut cake so I'll be making this in our new cooker!

I haven't tried it yet, so don't take my word for it! But ol' Nigel's usually a safe bet. We can compare notes on our cakes, OK?

When I think of coffee flavoured cakes, I always think of tiramisu.... the stuff dreams are made of!!!!  (even though I think it uses espresso).  Seems like there would be a lot involved to make that, though.  Maybe I'm wrong.....

It's cake to enjoy with your coffee.  Just a tiny bit confusing.    

What a strange name though - and what if I want to have the cake with a cup of tea?
And as for coffee flavoured coffee cake - that would have to be coffee coffee cake!

What a strange name though - and what if I want to have the cake with a cup of tea?
And as for coffee flavoured coffee cake - that would have to be coffee coffee cake!

Kind of like chicken fried chicken.  Which really confused DH when he was in Texas.   

What a strange name though - and what if I want to have the cake with a cup of tea?

Then I guess you'd have 'tea cake'.  

Then I guess you'd have 'tea cake'.  

Hey! A tea cake doesn't taste like tea!  So, coffee cake isn't that strange afterall! 

Hey! A tea cake doesn't taste like tea!  So, coffee cake isn't that strange afterall! 

My MIL's cold tea cake does!   

But my considered opinion is that American cake-to-have-with-coffee-cake spanks the heck out of British coffee-flavored cake.  Just a personal preference.

My MIL's cold tea cake does!  

Ah, see I meant a teacake, not teacake.

Ah, see I meant a teacake, not teacake.

Now there you have me.   

Oh, I was having the worst hankering for that American kind of coffee cake a while back when we were doing the food heaven and hell thing.  I've never made it before, just bought the kind from the freezer section in the grocery.  Maybe now I'll try!

What she said!  I'm not saying that coffee flavoured cake doesn't exist in the US, I'm sure it must somewhere.  That was never my understanding of coffee cake - rather I always took it to mean the cinnamon streusel-ly stuff.  So I was really surprised when I took a bite of coffee cake over here (which didn't look quite right to me but hey you know, it's cake!) and it tasted of coffee.  Lol!

I agree with this.  I've lived in the midwest, west and southern U.S.

Someone brought a coffee cake ring for Thanksgiving and my family kept commenting on how boring it was and why would anyone go to the trouble of bringing one? Normally I would think the same but as I hadn't had it for awhile I enjoyed it.
Entenman's coffee cake and a cup of coffee...mmmm what a treat

Ah, see I meant a teacake, not teacake.

Well, now that makes 3 types of teacakes that I've heard of now.   

Cold Teacake, Fruit (toasting) teacakes & the chocolate covered marshmallow & biscuit Teacakes!    

What's that you were saying about Coffee Cake not making sense TykeMan?