Steps to Make Ultimate Earl Grey Tea Pound Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, earl grey tea pound cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Earl Grey Tea Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Earl Grey Tea Pound Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

These tea cakes resemble the texture and flavor of a traditional pound cake, but I like to kick up the flavor a notch by adding some Earl Grey tea, stepped in warm milk. It's such a lovely flavor for a buttery pound cake and when combined with a little orange zest it definitely makes this cake otherworldly. This Earl Grey Tea Cake Loaf is a fragrant pound cake loaf infused with tea in two ways and then brushed with lemon and honey while still hot. This will be the tea cake to have on the table for an afternoon snack with a cup of Earl Grey!

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have earl grey tea pound cake using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Earl Grey Tea Pound Cake:

1. Make ready 1/2 cup (120 g) butter, softened
2. Take 70 g sugar(original :200g)
3. Prepare 3 eggs, room temperature
4. Take 1 tbsp (15 ml) orange zest
5. Prepare 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla
6. Make ready 1 1/3 cups (160 g) sifted flour
7. Take 1/2 tsp (2.5 ml) salt
8. Prepare 1 tsp (5 ml) baking powder
9. Prepare 1/2 cup (120 ml) whole milk
10. Get 3 Earl Gray tea bags

Just a little bit different and the taste is surprising!! This cake is a winner on account of its lightly sweet flavor AND its delectable aroma. It made the Test Kitchen smell absolutely WONDERFUL while baking. This Earl Grey Tea Cake pairs three moist and tender earl grey cake layers with refreshing and tangy orange cream cheese buttercream.

Steps to make Earl Grey Tea Pound Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350F (175C) degrees. - - Spray Bundt pan with baking spray and distribute well with a pastry brush. (If using Nordicware). I use the mini silicone bundt so that it’s not necessary to spray. This recipe is made for 1 mini bundt pan and 2 small pans like I did. You can use normal bundt pan (10 cups capacity or loaf pan by double the recipe)
2. Mix orange zest with sugar to kick up the flavor for 10 minutes.
3. Warm ½ cup of milk in a sauce pan. Add 3 Earl Gray tea bags. Allow it to steep for 5-7 minutes. Discard bags and allow milk to cool.
4. Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder and set aside.
5. Cream together butter and sugar until very light and fluffy. - Add the eggs to the butter mixture, 1 by 1. Then add the flour mixture to the batter in thirds, alternating with the Earl Gray mixture. just until combined, being careful not to over mix! (or your cake will be tough).
6. Using small ice scoop to pour in molds. Tap the molds to release air bubbles.
7. Bake 20 mins until a toothpick comes out clean. Once cooled, reverse molds and cakes onto a cooling rack. Dust with powdered sugar.
8. Served with Earl Grey Tea!

It made the Test Kitchen smell absolutely WONDERFUL while baking. This Earl Grey Tea Cake pairs three moist and tender earl grey cake layers with refreshing and tangy orange cream cheese buttercream. Yes, I think this batter would work just fine as a pound cake, I think it's enough to fill a loaf pan. If you love tea, this Earl Grey layer cake recipe is for you, made with three layers of Earl Grey cake and a creamy Earl Grey frosting. I don't think it happened overnight.

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