No Bake Coffee Cake Recipe

The coffee cake you're about to learn the recipe is a traditional family cake; coffee cake, also known as Petits Beurres Cake is a no bake cake quick and easy to make, even for kids.

As far as I remember, my grand mother prepared coffe ake for all our events, more particularly because my mother and her sister don't like to cook neither prepare any kind of dessert. We used to eat coffee cake on any celebration: birthday, end of year, whatever and even sometimes replaced our traditional chocolate yule log on Christmas with a coffee cake. Coffee cake is, in reality, a scout treat specialty.

Although I always ordered bespoke cakes from the bakery for my child's birthday, I always also prepared a coffee cake for the occasion and the coffee cake was always my son's favorite cake ever. Nowadays, my child prepares the coffee cake for the whole family, it has also become a traditional dessert at home because coffee cake is quick and easy to make cake and doesn't require baking.

Coffee cake or Petits Beurres Cake is the best no bake cake ever!

Before you begin to make your no bake coffee cake, make sure that you have a rectangular cake tray on hand. Here's the no bake coffee cake recipe.

• 48 Petits Beurres biscuits (these are 100% butter cookies)
• 500 g non-salty butter or margarine (margarine is easier to work with)
• Instant coffee
• 150 g fine sugar (or sugar to taste)
• Cocoa powder
• Hot water

• Pour 3 tablespoons instant coffee in 1/2 glass hot water
• Mix 1 pound butter together with 150g sugar and add as much coffee preparation as you like and whisk until smooth

Let's start preparing the coffee cake recipe:

• Fill a soup plate with warm coffee and quickly plunge the Petits Beurres one by one
• Align the moistened Petits Beurres on the tray
• When the first layer is completed, spread a thin layer coffee frosting
• Alternate Petit Beurres and coffee frosting layers
• Put the finishing touches with a coat coffee frosting on which you sprinkle chocolate chips or sprinkles you best like.

Voila! 30 minutes work and your coffee cake is done!

The main ingredients of this no bake coffee cake recipe are Petits Beurres and coffee. As long as you keep these ingredients in the recipe, you can adapt it the way you want and to your personal taste.

For instance, if you want to bake an adult coffee cake recipe for a party or so, add some rum to the coffee frosting. Another version would be to replace the coffee frosting with confectioner's custard or chocolate cream. There are many alternatives for you to prepare this no bake coffee cae recipe and all depend on your own tastes.

As for the decorating part, you're only limited by your imagination!