Spiced Tea Cake

Name: Spiced Tea Cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 220 g full-fat cream cheese, at room temperature; Small handful of pistachios, coarsely chopped; 1 teaspoon mixed spice; ½ teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated; 1 tablespoon black treacle; 2 eggs; 220 g butter, softened; 340 g icing sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons mixed spice; 300 ml black tea, made using a teabag of your choice; 280 g self-raising flour; 250 g mixed dried fruit; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 200 g soft brown sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Hebridean Baker

By Coinneach MacLeod

Published 2021

About

When you make your morning cup of tea, start the prep for this cake and it will be ready for your afternoon treat. Choose Earl Grey or Chai tea to give this cake an extra burst of flavour.

Ingredients

For the cake

300 ml black tea, made using a teabag of your choice
250 g mixed dried fruit
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Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian
Scotland

Method

Preheat your oven to 180°C/350°F.

Cover a teabag with 300ml of boiling water and allow to completely cool as it infuses. Take the teabag out, then pour this over your dried fruit and leave to soak for 4 hours.

Add the flour, sugar, cinnamon, mixed spice and freshly grat