Simplicity at it’s best The Bakery Mocha Cake

 

Walnut garnish is not unique to my bakery

somehow these suspicious walnuts made their way as universal garnish to this iconic cake!
so if you see a cake with the light beige icing
and a few walnuts on top IT’S A MOCHA CAKE!

I believe this Americanized version is a descendant of
the Hungarian Walnut Cake
which is where I suspect the walnuts cake from in the first place!

Walnuts or not I love me some coffee

so this Bakery Mocha Cake is right up my alley!

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Notes for Success

 

This is a Building On Recipes project where you only need two simple recipes to get to this perfect cake!

Gluten Free Flour works great with my classic Bakery Yellow Cake Recipe listed below!

Mocha Buttercream is a simple recipe made from cocoa powder and instant coffee granules!
Use your favorite recipe of buttercream and add this mocha paste at the last stage of mixing!

Instant Freeze Dried Coffee Granules is my choice for making mocha paste. Adding brewed liquid coffee is not the best option since it’s so much liquid that could potentially break your buttercream emulsion 
However if this is your only option I would suggest to brew it super strong or use an espresso shot instead

Of course you can leave the walnuts off since they really don’t lend much to this cake anyway!
I always laugh since it’s just so ridiculous that they are there in the first place!
Click through to the Hungarian Walnut Cake recipe where I suspect this cake was derived!

Baking the batter into 3-7″ cake pans but you can use 2-8″ pans instead