Baking is very much a traditional part of Britain and there\u2019s nothing quite like a cup of tea and a piece of cake as the ultimate pick-me-up <\/strong>in the afternoon.\u00a0 Now as we all know, Britain is a nation of tea drinkers: we go through 165 million cups a day or 60.2 billion a year and 84% of the population drink tea or herbal infusions everyday.\u00a0 No wonder that the most stereotypical images of the Brits are that they are blond and blue-eyed, go red in the sun, only ever eat fish and chips and love a good cup of tea.<\/p>\n Well, I have to admit that some of these stereotypes are true to some extent.\u00a0 There is a large percentage of the population that are blond, blue-eyed, look like a lobster after a few hours in the sun and we do eat fish and chips (but only every now and again).\u00a0 So this leaves us with the last one and this is where I have to buck the trend<\/strong>.\u00a0 My apologies in advance for destroying the stereotype but I hate tea.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t drunk it since I was 11 and I cannot think of anything worse than a cup of tea with my cake.\u00a0 When it comes to the world of hot beverages<\/strong>, I am very much a coffee lover.\u00a0 There is nothing better than a \u2018caf\u00e9 con leche\u2019, but I do prefer to avoid some of the well know chains who only seem to serve coffee in varying bucket sizes.<\/p>\n Although I love coffee, I am a little contrary<\/strong> as I don\u2019t like coffee flavoured foods, which means that coffee cake is a most definite non-starter<\/strong>. The following recipe I have been making for some time as the family all love it and I was persuaded to try it by my children, as they like the cake but don\u2019t like drinking coffee (they have obviously inherited my contrariness in reverse).\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have an overtly<\/strong> strong coffee taste, so if you\u2019re like me and you\u2019re not keen on<\/strong> coffee flavoured foods, I would recommend it.<\/p>\n Coffee Cake<\/u><\/p>\n Pre heat oven to 190\u00bac<\/p>\n Method<\/u><\/p>\n If you wish you can decorate the cake with butter cream frosting, or even cut the cake in half and place this in the middle but we prefer it without.<\/p>\n Enjoy with a cup of tea or better still\u2026\u2026.a cup of coffee!<\/p>\n Vocabulary <\/u><\/p>\n Pick me up:<\/strong> something that makes you feel better or give you a little more energy, it could be a drink or tonic<\/p>\n Buck the trend:<\/strong> go against the norm\/have a different opinion<\/p>\n Beverage:<\/strong> a generic word for a drink of any type.<\/p>\n Contrary (to be):<\/strong> (adjective) a contrary person is someone who disagrees and annoys others more often than not on purpose, but in this context of the blog it is used to mean that it is the opposite of what has just been stated.<\/p>\n Non-Starter:<\/strong> an idea or plan that has no chance of success<\/p>\n Overtly:<\/strong> something which is obvious or done in an obvious or public way and isn\u2019t secret.<\/p>\n Keen on:<\/strong> very interested in something, or as used in this context to like something or not!<\/p>\n Self raising flour:<\/strong> flour that already has the baking agent added to it (harina de bizcocho):<\/p>\n Tsp:<\/strong> teaspoon, it\u2019s used to stir tea or coffee but as a measurement it is equivalent to 5ml or about 5g.<\/p>\n Cubed:<\/strong> cut the butter into the shape of a cube!<\/p>\n Tbsp:<\/strong> a large spoon used for measuring food and liquids and it\u2019s equivalent to about 15ml or 15g.<\/p>\n Beat together: <\/strong>the action to mix together ingredients vigorously, e.g. batir los huevos.<\/p>\n Cake Mould:<\/strong>\u00a0the recipient for cooking a cake, it can be of different sizes and shapes.<\/p>\n\n
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