Low Fat Desserts Recipes - Tia Maria Gateau

Ingredients

• 75g plain flour

• 30ml instant coffee powder

• 3 eggs

• 115g caster sugar

• For the Filling

• 175g low fat soft cheese

• 15ml clear honey

• 15ml Tia Maria

• 50g stem ginger, chopped

• For the icing

• 225g icing sugar, sifted

• 10ml coffee essence

• 5ml fat reduced cocoa

• coffee beans (opitonal)

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Method:

1. Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl until thick and mousse-like, then fold in the flour mixture lightly. Turn the mixture into the prepared tin. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until firm and golden. Cool on a wire rack.

2. Make the filling. Mix the soft cheese with the honey in a bowl. Beat until smooth, then stir in the Tia Maria and ginger. Split the cake in half horizontally and sandwich together with the Tia Maria filling.

3. Make the icing. In a bowl, mix the icing sugar and coffee essence with enough water to make an icing which will coat the back of a wooden spoon. Pour three-quarters of the icing over the cake. Stir the cocoa into the remaining icing, spoon it into a piping bag fitted with a writing nozzle and drizzle the mocha icing over the coffee icing. Decorate with coffee beans, if desired.