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!
I have been drinking Earl grey tea forever, I’m 55 years old and now I’m going to eat Earl grey cake thank you for the new addition .
Oh that is fantastic! I hope you enjoy it!
It’s a great cake…thankyou
Thank you! I’m happy you enjoyed it!
Greetings from Oman.
Hello! I was wondering if I can use a 9×9 cake pan if I don’t have a bundt cake pan
Thank you!
Hi! Yes, absolutely. The baking time might be a little different though…check at 45 minutes, but you may need to bake it longer (up to 1 hour or so).
So excited to have come across this recipe! I have to go to a royal wedding tea party celebration today and thought it’d be perfect. I’m short on time though. Would I be able to use box mix as a base? In particular yellow cake mix? The only liquid is oil so wasn’t sure if that would work. Thank you!
I forgot – there’s water too, so hopefully it should work?
I’m amazed how easy this recipe is and the result was an aromatically delicious Earl Grey cake. I used Marks and Spencer’s earl grey teabags and they turned out great!
I honestly can’t bake to save my life (took me 3 hours to make a 2 ingredient chocolate cake once ahh) but this recipe was SO easy to do! I didn’t have Earl Grey so I used Assam tea (also ended up using 3 tea bags instead of 2 because the tea bags were really small) and I really had to stop myself from eating the batter because it smelt so good.
Cake came out really tasty, soft, and moist. Was a little dense, but I think I just didn’t whisk for long enough.
Am really wanted to try this again!
Hi Rajvinder! I’m so glad you made this cake…it really is SO delicious! I might have to try it with Assam tea next time…sounds so good!
Hi. I want to try recipe. But let me ask you . can I throw leaves in recipe as well? Thanks. Judy
Hi Judy! I would only use the leaves to steep in the milk, then I would strain them out…I’m not sure the texture of the leaves in the cake would be good.
Hi Jo-anna! What size is your bundt pan? And would it make a difference whether or not the pan is non-stick?
Hi Char! I typically use a 12 cup Bundt pan for my cakes. And non-stick pans are the best to use because getting the cakes out of the pan can be tricky. If you don’t have a non-stick pan, just make sure you prep your pan by greasing and flouring it really well first. Happy baking!
My husband has recently fallen in love with Earl Grey tea (decaf). So, when I say your post, I thought, “Gotta make this for him”. I only had Earl Grey in the house-so I threw in some dried lavender just to try to keep to the recipe. Oh my goodness. This is my new ‘take and wow people’ cake. I live in Beirut, where overly sweet cakes are not popular…so, this one is perfect! Just the right sweetness with new and exciting flavors people haven’t tried together before. Thank you sooooo much for the recipe! And, keep posting bundt cake recipes…and buying new shapes/designs! Life is too short for boring square cakes 🙂