Cappuccino Squares
I love coffee-flavoured things. Chocolates with a coffee centre are amazing, and I go crazy for coffee-flavoured ice cream. If you, like me, love coffee flavours then you’ll love this traybake recipe, which came from a Caithness SWRI recipe book.
Cappuccino Squares are easy to make, and they are delicious and moist, not too sweet, and have just a subtle taste of coffee.
Cappuccino Squares are easy to make, and they are delicious and moist, not too sweet, and have just a subtle taste of coffee.
![Cappuccino Squares ingredients](https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Cappuccino-Squares-ingredients.jpg)
Ingredients
- 225g butter
- 225g self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cocoa
- 225g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 tablespoons instant coffee
- 2 tablespoons hot water
- 115g white chocolate
- 55g butter
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 175g icing sugar
![Mixing all the Cappuccino Squares cake ingredients together](https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mixing-all-the-Cappuccino-Squares-cake-ingredients-together.jpg)
Method
- Preheat your oven to 180° C.
- Grease and line a shallow 28cm x 18 cm tin with baking paper.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa into a bowl. Add the caster sugar.
- Beat the eggs, melt the butter (a minute in the microwave did the job) and dissolve the 3 tablespoons of coffee in 2 tablespoons of hot water.
![Cappuccino Squares cake mixture](https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Cappuccino-Squares-cake-mixture.jpg)
- Mix it all together until the mixture is smooth.
- Then spoon the mixture evenly into the tin and smooth the top.
![Cappuccino Squares ready for the oven](https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Cappuccino-Squares-ready-for-the-oven.jpg)
- Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes, or until risen and firm.
- Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack. Leave to cool completely.
![About to apply the frosting](https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/About-to-apply-the-frosting.jpg)
- Then, to make the frosting, break the chocolate into pieces.
- Then melt the chocolate, butter and milk together in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir so the mixture is smooth. (Melting the chocolate and butter can also be done carefully in a microwave, 30 seconds at a time.)
- Remove the bowl from the saucepan and sift in the icing sugar.
- Beat until smooth (we used an electric whisk), then spread over the cake.
![Cappuccino Squares with frosting](https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Cappuccino-Squares-with-frosting.jpg)
- Dust the top with a teaspoon of sieved cocoa powder.
- Cut into squares.
TIP – Be careful and only sieve a very small amount of cocoa powder at the end – I had a disaster with my first batch – and covered the bake (and half the kitchen) with cocoa!
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