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Hi as just wondering if you can taste the coffee in the cake once cooked as I dislike coffee and not sure if cake will work if I leave it out??

Hi Amybucks, You can’t taste the coffee at all but I tend to put a little less in than the recipe. Having tried other chocolate cake recipes they all seem to have coffee added it seems to bring out the chocolate flavour. Kind regards Grace

Thanks Grace !!

I can taste the coffee in the cake and also dislike it so will always leave it out and it doesn’t make a difference.

As a person who does not drink coffee at all, I can taste the coffee in the recipe…but only on the first bite. It may be that I am super sensitive to it though as my friends say they can not taste it at all!

I’ve left the coffee out today by mistake, i haven’t tasted it yet but I can smell the bicarbonate of soda, so perhaps the coffee is there to disguise the flavour of the bicarbonate ….?

I’ve left the coffee out today by mistake, i haven’t tasted it yet but I can smell the bicarbonate of soda, so perhaps the coffee is there to disguise the flavour of the bicarbonate ….?