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Home > Recipes > Orange, almond and earl grey cake

Orange, almond and earl grey cake
( SERVES 8 )

Delaney Mes

Publication: Herald on Sunday

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Orange, almond and earl grey cake

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Ingredients

150 g Butter, softened
150 g Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract, good quality
3 Eggs
150 g Plain flour
2 tsp Baking powder
70 g Ground almonds
½ cup Natural yoghurt
1 Tbsp Orange zest
2 Tbsp Orange juice
2 Tbsp Earl grey tea, ground until fine, I used Fine and Dandy Earl Grey loose leaf tea

Cream cheese icing

225 g Cream cheese
3 Tbsp Icing sugar, sifted
½ Lemon, juiced
1 Tbsp Freshly squeezed orange juice
1 Tbsp Orange zest, plus more to garnish

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C fan bake. Grease and line 2 x 20-22cm cake tins with butter and baking paper.
  2. Cream butter and sugar until very pale and fluffy. This takes a good 10-15 minutes. Add the eggs and the vanilla and continue to beat until combined.
  3. Sift over the flour and baking powder, and then add the almonds, yogurt, orange juice and zest, and the tea. Mix gently to combine — the mixture will be quite thick.
  4. Divide mixture evenly into the two tins. Bake for 30-35 minutes until golden and a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean. Leave cakes in their tins for about five minutes, before cooling on a wire rack. Once cool, ice and decorate.
  5. For the icing, beat all ingredients in a mixer (I take my cream cheese out of the fridge about an hour before using) until smooth and creamy. Spread some icing between the two cakes as you layer them, and spread the remaining icing on top. Decorate with orange zest and tea leaves. Serve with your favourite tea.

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  • sallyhoare100
    sallyhoare100
    added 1263 days ago

    The Earl Grey tea flavour didn't really come through. Use the whole 250g cream cheese package for the icing or you'll find it on the stingy side. A small cake so use the 20cm cake tins.

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