Take a tea break. There is cake. A tea cake! That’s cake with tea. A Wonderful sweet and tender Earl Grey sponge cake. The only question left is, do you take tea or coffee to the cake?
My shelf is always well equipped with tea. Sometimes it is so crammed, that you have i have to watch out for falling tea packages when i open it. That’s how fully loaded my shelf is – with different kinds of teas. My favourites are herbal teas, black tea, green tea, matcha, english breakfast tea and Earl Grey tea. Every now and then, a fruit tea can be found in between the other ones. Soooo, why not bake a tea-cake? Right, lets do this!
I decided for the elegant, and classy Earl Grey tea, flavored with bergamot, a citrus fruit. That’s a really good combination.
This cake impresses with its fluffy, tender dough, surrounded by the perfectly baked outer layer of cake. With a hint of vanilla and a fine Earl Grey tea taste. The cake is made quickly and tastes delicious in every occation. On top a blob of plantbased cream goes great with this cake.
For special occations, you can cover the cake with icing. You can also flavor the water, or the vegetable milk you use for the icing, with Earl grey tea. Or just top the cake with some sifted powdered sugar.
Enjoy !
Recipe (spring form ∅24cm):
115g plantbased butter, room temperature
200g sugar
2 tblsp plantbased yogurt, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
250g flour
4 tblsp corn starch (put it through a sieve, corn starch tends to clump)
3 tsp baking powder
250g vegetable milk
2 pieces Earl Grey tee bags
Baking: at 170° Celsius, for 45 to 50 minutes
Butter and dust the spring form.
Heat the plantbased milk on medium heat. Place the Earl Grey teebags in the milk and leave it there for 4 to 8 minutes depending on the isntructions for your tea (read the instructions on the package). Afterwards remove the teabags but do not squeeze it out to avoid bitterness. Then let the milk cool down.
Beat the room warm plantbased butter with the sugar until it gets frothy.
In the meantime mix the flour, baking powder and corn starch.
When butter and sugar get frothy add slowly and carefully the vanilla extract and the yogurt.
Now add all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, corn starch) spoon by spoon alternating with the milk and let the blender mix everything.
Fill the finished dough into the prepared cake pan. Spread the dough to the edges.
Place the cake in the pre-heated oven.
When the cake is ready, take it out of the oven and let it chill out. Then you can top it with some siftet powdered sugar.
Done!
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