Earl Grey Tea Loaf Recipe
The crumb on this Earl Grey tea cake is tender, moist and perfectly flavoured with notes of bergamot. Topped with a zingy lemon icing, the resulting taste experience is positively heavenly.
Servings: 12 slices
Equipment
- Mug
- 2lb lof tin
Ingredients
For the sponge
- 175 g salted butter softened
- 200 g white caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 200 g self-raising white flour (self rising flour)
- 3 medium free range eggs
- 125 ml whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 Earl Grey teabags (use 1 if you prefer a milder flavour)
For the icing
- 100 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)
- 2-3 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
Make the Earl Grey loaf
- Grease a 2lb loaf tin and line with baking paper.
- Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan assisted, 350F)
- Heat the milk in a jug in the microwave until it's hand hot. Open the tea bags and tip into the milk, stir and set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
- Add in the eggs. Whisk again until fluffy.
- When the milky tea is room temp, tip it into the batter, along with all the tea leaves and vanilla.
- Add the flour and baking powder. Stir everything together.
- Spoon the batter into the lined loaf tin.
- Bake for approximately 60 minutes. (If the loaf tin is tall and narrow, the cake may take longer than one that is wide and shallow). The cake should be golden on the outside and the skewer pushed into the very centre should come out clean - keep an eye on it as you don't want it to over-bake.
- Stand the tin on a cooling rack for 15 minutes, then lift the cake out of the tin and back onto the rack to cool completely.
Make the lemon icing
- Sieve the icing sugar and stir in the lemon juice.
- Drizzle over the cooled loaf and allow to set before slicing and serving.
Nutrition
Calories: 285kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 74mg | Sodium: 114mg | Potassium: 89mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 442IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 0.4mg
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