How to bake a Tea Cake

Baking cakes is one of my passion when my mood comes in once in a while.

I had been baking assorted of flavor cakes throughout these years, from vanilla sponge cakes to screwpine leaves ( pandan) cakes.

The best thing about cakes is you can add in any fragrance ingredients to them ranging from chopped fruits, dried fruits, candies, chocolates, snicker bars, yogurt and even tea!

I didn’t know that tea makes a wonderful, fragrant tea cake for teatime snack which could store up to a week!

I happened to stumble upon this recipe at Pinterest and found it easy to bake as any other normal cakes.

Ingredients you need for this cake

Green tea

Green tea is suitable for a healthy cake as it is widely known for low cholesterol, low caffeine and helps to lose weight too.

You can use green tea bag or loose green tea leaves to infuse the tea into a cup.

Just 1/2 a cup of hot tea will suffice to enhance the tea flavor into the cake.

Make sure that the green tea is thick and fragrance.

If you are out of green tea, you can use normal tea bag ( Boh or Lipton brand) but NOT Chinese tea.

Chinese tea taste bitter!

Remember to cool off the tea before mixing into the cake batter.

Otherwise, it will turn the cake batter into lumps.

Orange zest

I added orange zest into the batter for the tangy orange smell that combined well with tea.

Grab any fresh orange, wash the skin well, grate the orange skin with a grater.

Makes around 1 tbsp of orange zest, suffice for the cake batter.

Alternatively, you could slice the orange peel, remove the inner bitter white pulp, cut into small cubes before adding to the cake batter.

Gives a good crunchy bites and burst with vitamin C!

Cinnamon powder

One of the ingredient required for this tea cake is cinnamon powder.

You don’t use raw cinnamon stick, that is only suitable for hot tea or honey.

Use cinnamon powder, just a little will do the trick to enhance the aromatic flavor and smell.

Cinnamon blends well with tea, helps to clear runny nose, cold and flu.

It is one of the jewel herbs in the Chinese world , that during the ancient times, cinnamon tree is considered as valuable as gold.

It helps to cure assorted sickness which until now, it is widely used in culinary cuisine and baking purpose.

How to bake Tea Cake

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

 Baking Time: 45 minutes 

Ready to Serve Time: 55 minutes 

Yield: 4 person 

Ingredients: 

• 240g mixed dried fruits

(raisins, red cherries)

• ½ cup hot thick tea -allow it to cool

 • 180g butter at room temperature

• 180g brown sugar ( 1/2 amount for white sugar)

 • 1 orange peel- grated

 • 2 eggs 

• 2 cups SR flour

( or 2 cups plain flour with 2 tsp baking powder)

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder

Method:

• Mince dried fruits finely.
• Soak into warm tea overnight.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and
•  creamy.
• Add in grated orange peel and eggs, one
•  at a time.
• Beat the ingredients and batter together 
• until combined.
• Add in chopped dried fruits.
• Sift in SR flour and cinnamon powder 
• into the batter.
• Place a lightly greased baking sheet in a 
• rectangular baking tray.
• Our in the batter into the baking tray.
• Use the back of a wooden spoon or 
• spatula to even the surface.
• Bake in the oven at 175C for 45 minutes.
• Use a skewer to test out the cake 
• whether it is cooked by inserting it into
•  the middle of the Fruity Tea Cake.
• If it comes out clean, remove from the
•  oven.
• Let it cool on the wire rack.
• If it comes out sticky or wet, allow the
•  cake to bake for another 10 minutes.

Tips:

Store cake in air-tight container.

Keep in fridge if cannot finish in 3 days

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