Coffee Walnut Loaf Cake With Coffee Icing

Step 1: Preheat oven to 160C/140C fan forced.

Step 2: Grease and line a 21cm x 11cm (base measurement) with baking paper, extending paper at long sides for handles.

Step 3: Combine butter, sugar, milk and coffee in a saucepan and cook and stir over low heat for 3 minutes or until melted and combined and then remove from heat.

Step 4: Sift flour and cinnamon into a bowl and add eggs, butter mixture and finely chopped walnuts and mix well.

Step 5: Spoon mixture into prepared pan and level surface.

Step 6: Top with half the extra walnuts and bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted at centre comes out clean and then stand in pan for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Step 7: Drizzle cooled cake with coffee icing and serve sprinkled with remaining walnuts.

FOR THE COFFEE ICING

Step 8: Whisk the boiling water and coffee in a heatproof jug until coffee dissolves and then sift icing sugar into a bowl and add butter and coffee mixture and mix to form a smooth runny icing.