3 nearly cake Recipes

fine ground coffee, water (heated to near-boil temp), unsalted butter (well-softened ), sugar, self-raising flour (sifted), ground almonds, eggs, icing sugar (to dust top layer of cake), fresh mint (sml sprigs for garnish), unsalted butter, icing sugar (sifted), creme de menthe

salted butter, bittersweet dark cooking chocolate, broken into squares (belgian is best), eggs, caster sugar, ground almonds, bittersweet dark chocolate, extra