Tea Cake

Name: Tea Cake (Chais Namtskhvari)
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: Georgian
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled; ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons plum jam; 1 teaspoon baking soda; ½ cup finely chopped toasted walnuts; ¼ teaspoon salt; ¼ cup red wine vinegar; 2 heaping teaspoons loose black tea; 2 cups unbleached white flour; 2 eggs, separated; 1½ cups sugar; 1¼ cups boiling water

Chais Namtskhvari

Preparation info

Serves
8 to 10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Georgian Feast

By Darra Goldstein

Published 1999

About

This delectable cake with a slight caramel flavor is quite literally a tea cake, since brewed black tea moistens the batter. The recipe is adapted from Tamara Sulakvelidze’s Russian-Georgian cookbook.

Ingredients

2 heaping teaspoons loose black tea
1¼ cups boiling water
1½ cups

Asia
Georgia
Russia
Dessert
Cake
Winter
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan and dust it with flour.

Steep the tea in the boiling water for 15 minutes, then strain. You should have 1 cup of strong tea.</