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Yum! I could use a piece of this right about now. (Though I'd probably replace more of the all-purpose flour with buckwheat, because I'm a buckwheat maniac.)

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I'm pretty sure you could increase the amount of buckwheat a bit further without the cake becoming too dense!

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Sounds amazing! Hope to try as written. Always ready for a new take on coffee cake. Thanks, Sophia!

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Thank you Ruth! Hope you enjoy the cake when you try it! I'm already plotting when to make it the next time. And agreed - coffee cake lends itself to so many different takes, always fun to see new ones!

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I just pulled mine out of the oven, adapted for italy!

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Yeay, I am honoured! Hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing about your tweaks! (The first time I came across buckwheat flour was when I lived in Italy actually - through a torta di grano saraceno and some polenta di taragna I tried in Alto Adige).

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You were asking about baking with buckwheat flour: I use it in Meera Sodha fantastic strawberry sheet cake recipe and in a pastry for fruit tarts in combination with ground almonds. Think I got the recipe from the Dove Farm website. And Nigella’s triple chocolate cookies also use it and are utterly delicious.

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These all sound great! And yes, buckwheat and chocolate is a fabulous combination. One of my favourite brownie recipes is Alice Medrich’s cocoa brownie recipe and using buckwheat flour instead of all purpose flour.

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This is a gorgeous recipe. Can't wait to try it. Thank you. 🌸

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Thank you Dany - your comment just made my day!

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I made this yesterday - it was very good! Based in the US and the color of my cake was slightly different - I think it's because buckwheat flour here is unrefined. Some notes here for anyone in the US - I used an 8x8 inch pan and it worked out though the cake is a little tall, nonfat greek yogurt, American butter, baked at 350 deg and my cake only needed 55 min - it was definitely done at that point. Thank you for a unique and nice recipe!

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Thank you Mira. So happy to hear you really enjoyed the cake! And thank you also for the additional notes on bake time for you and ingredient substitutions!

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This looks delicious and so interesting to see different ingredients from the day-to-day ones. It's a very long time since I tried baking with buckwheat but this has inspired me to go back to it!

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Thank you, that is so nice to hear! Enjoy baking with buckwheat - it’s so delicious!

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The cake looks lovely Sophia and I'm intrigued by the apricot miso jam. We will soon be in apricot season so I might try it will some fresh ones.

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Thank you Julia, so happy to hear this as I’m particularly proud of this one. The flavours I had imagine in my head just cake together so beautifully in this cake!

And the apricot miso jam is a total sleeper hit. And I’m sure those flavours would also work with fresh apricots, you might just want to add a little sugar. Somehow dried apricots are sweeter than fresh.

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*came together, not cake together (you can tell cake has been on my mind 🤣)

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