Mocha Tart

Ingredients:

• 5 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 Tablespoons coffee essence
• Pinch of salt
• 1 cup flour sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder

Method:
Separate the eggs. Whisk whites with salt and pinch of baking powder. When stiff, add in egg yolks, one at a time. Add sugar gradually, beating all the time. Beat in coffee essence.

Fold in flour. Bake in two well greased and lined 9 inch sandwich tins in moderate oven for half and hour. Cool.

Spread coffee butter icing between layers and on top of cake. Sprinkle top with browned almonds which have been finely shredded.

Coffee Butter Icing

Ingredients:
1 Tablespoon butter
2 Tablespoons sugar
Coffee essence

Method:
Cream butter and sugar. Add a teaspoon of coffee essence at a time, beating all the time till light and fluffy. Add vanilla for flavouring.