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

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.