Earl Grey Tea Cake

Name: Earl Grey Tea Cake
Yield: Makes one 19-cm loaf
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: Glucose 15 g; Salt ⅛ tsp; Earl grey tea dust from tea bags 5 g; Fresh whole milk 1 Tbsp; Sugar syrup 100 g (made using 50 g sugar and 100 g water); Lemon 1, grated for zest; Eggs 150 g, about 3 eggs; Baking powder ⅛ tsp; Unsalted butter 150 g, softened; Pastry flour or top flour 150 g, softened; Ground almonds 15 g; Icing (confectioner’s) sugar 150 g; Lemon juice 2 Tbsp

Preparation info

Makes
one
19 cm loaf

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Okashi

By Keiko Ishida

Published 2010

About

Ingredients

Pastry flour or top flour 150 g, softened
Baking powder ⅛ tsp

Asia
Japan
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat oven to 170°C. Line a 19 x 9 x 8-cm loaf tin with parchment paper. Sift flour and baking powder together twice.
Mix sugar syrup with lemon juice. Set aside.
Beat butter, icing sugar and glucose together until light and very fluffy. Gradu