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Felicity Cloake

How to make coffee and walnut cake – recipe

Felicity Cloake's coffee and walnut cake.
It’s my birthday and I’ll bake if I want to: Felicity Cloake’s coffee and walnut cake. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food styling: Loïc Parisot.

Today is my birthday, so I’m celebrating with a classic that, for all the sticky tres leches and sophisticated sachertortes I’ve enjoyed in recent years, remains my absolute favourite, my desert island cake: that darling of the WI tea tent, the coffee and walnut sandwich. The great Nigel Slater once named it his last meal on Earth, and I’m hoping to have it for tea.

Prep 30 min
Cook 25 min
Serves 8

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