Earl Grey Tea Cake
Earl Grey Tea Cake
This Earl Grey Tea Cake has hints of lavender and bergamot orange mixed into a delicious vanilla cake.
It’s Friday…I do declare it’s time for tea and cake. Yes? I made you an Earl Grey Tea cake. Yes, a cake with tea baked right into it, and it’s as good as it sounds!
I have been dreaming of this cake for quite a while now. Something about baking with tea is very intriguing to me. I mean sipping tea with desserts is a perfect after dinner past time isn’t it, so why not add tea to the dessert itself? YES. I’m not sure all teas are cut out for baking, but Earl Grey tea certainly is. It’s flavour lends itself perfectly to a simple vanilla cake.
I have a love affair with Earl Grey tea…on a side note, have you ever tried the Earl Grey Tea Latte from Second Cup? If not, you should, it’s delicious.
I used a Lady Grey Earl Grey tea for this cake, which has hints of lavender and bergamot orange…so good. (Lady Grey tea is Earl Grey tea with the addition of lavender)
Steeped in whole milk, and added to my basic vanilla pound cake recipe, this cake is divine. Oh my.
The flavour is light and sweet and perfect for breakfast, or lunch or really any time. Because cake needs no excuse does it? 😉
Earl Grey Tea Cake
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 Earl Grey Tea bags
- icing sugar for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare a Bundt pan by buttering the pan and lightly dusting with flour. Set aside.
- Heat up the 1 cup of milk (I just microwaved mine until hot), then add the 2 tea bags to the hot milk and let steep at least 10 minutes. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs, one at a time.
- Then add vanilla, and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, and baking powder.
- To the butter mix, add 1/3 of the flour mix, then 1/2 of the tea milk. Repeat until all combined.
- Pour into the prepared Bundt pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Once the cake has baked, let it cool for about 10 minutes in the pan, then turn the cake out onto a plate, and sprinkle with icing sugar.
More Delicious Bundt Cake Recipes:
- Coconut Pound Cake
- German Chocolate Bundt Cake
- Caramel Harvest Apple Bundt Cake
- Apple Coffee Cake
- Peach Bundt Cake
- Eggnog Bundt Cake
Have a delicious day!
Hi Deb! Thank you for pointing that out – I had no idea! So I looked into it, and the only option now with this program is a site called Big Oven (Epicurious unfortunately isn’t an option provided to me). I’ve enabled Big Oven, so I hope that helps?
Can we bake this in a loaf pan or muffin tin if we don’t have a Bundt pan?
Hi Jessica! If you have 9×9 or 9×13 inch baking pan, I would recommend those instead. Loaf pans are too small and I’m not sure how they would be as muffins…
This sounds great! I love tea… and cake… so it’s perfect! Pinning!
Thank you!
This is a beautiful cake, perfect for having people over.
Thank you Ayngelina!
Such a pretty cake. Love the breakfast suggestion!
Thank you so much Shauna! Have a fantastic week!
Oh my, this sounds heavenly! I must go buy a bundt pan! 🙂
Thank you Katia! Yes, go buy a bundt pan – bundt cakes are so easy to make!
Hi! This cake looks so good and easy to make. Will be putting this on the list of this weeks baking. Cheers from Bangkok!
I hope you enjoy it Ping! And I’m so excited to have a reader from Bangkok! Welcome! 🙂
That looks wonderful! My favourite is Earl Grey madeleines. The lavender in the Lady Grey would add such a delicate, fragrant touch to your cake!
such a lovely cake, and I’m sure just as delicious
Thank you Heather!
Yum! I never knew that about Lady Grey, I will have to look for it!
It’s a perfect flavour for this cake – I love it!
Hello again. In your post you mention you used a Lady Grey tea (which should have lavender added), and in your photo it looks like a Tazo teabag. However I can’t find any Lady Grey tea by Tazo — only Earl Grey. I think Lady Grey is only made by Twinings, but they don’t use lavender in it — just orange and lemon flavours. Can you specify what brand of tea you used? I can always just use regular Earl Grey but the lavender sounds so yummy! 🙂
Hi Katia! I did use the Tazo Earl Grey tea for this recipe, and their Earl Grey tea actually has the lavender in it so it’s perfect! Enjoy!