easiest coffee cake

One day last week, I was expecting some people to come over and I wanted to bake a cake for them.  Usually, I have no trouble at all motivating myself to bake.  However, on this day, I was being extremely indecisive.  I kept putting it off all day till it came to the point that I had to start baking something immediately or it was going to be too late.

So I ended up baking this cake which is probably the easiest cake to make out of my collection.

It does not involve separating eggs or whipping.  You don't even have to melt butter, because you don't need butter for this recipe.  You just mix and pop it into the oven.  That's it.


Mix two eggs with 180ml of vegetable oil (I used light olive oil), 80ml of sour cream and 200ml of brown sugar.
Then add a shot of strong espresso or two teaspoons of instant coffee dissolved in 80ml of hot water.
Mix in 220g of self raising flour, pour it into a prepared cake tin (20cm) and baked in the medium hot oven for approximately 30 minutes.

It just needs some whipped cream and a drizzle of coffee essence to serve.