Description
This easy loaf cake combines the citrus notes of Earl Grey or Lady Grey tea with orange.
Ingredients
Scale
For the cake:
- 50 ml boiling water
- 1 Earl Grey or Lady Grey teabag
- 125 g butter
- 175 g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 175 g self-raising flour
- Zest of half an orange
- 100 g icing sugar
- Juice of 1 orange
For the icing:
- 150 g butter
- 50 g icing sugar
- 200 g cream cheese
- Zest of half an orange
Instructions
- Set your oven to 180 degrees centigrade or Gas Mark 4.
- Put the boiling water into a small jug or cup and add the Earl Grey or Lady Grey teabag. Allow the teabag to steep in the water for 5 minutes and then remove it. The tea will be stronger than you would like to drink!
- Grease a 450 g loaf tin and line the bottom with baking parchment.
- Cream the butter with the sugar. (I usually soften the butter for about 30 seconds in the microwave first as it makes it much easier!)
- Gradually add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture. If it looks as if it is going to curdle, add some of the self-raising flour.
- Once the eggs have been incorporated add the rest of the self-raising flour.
- Add the Earl Grey or Lady tea and half the grated zest of your orange.
- Spoon the cake mixture into your prepared loaf tin.
- Put the tin in the oven and bake for 45 minutes.
- While the cake is baking, combine the juice from your orange with 100 g of icing sugar to form a thick syrup.
- Remove the cake from the oven and immediately pour the syrup over the top.
- Leave the cake in the tin to cool completely before removing. If you try and take it out while it is still warm it may fall apart as it will be very moist due to the syrup.
- Make the icing by creaming together the butter and icing sugar. Then mix in the cream cheese and the other half of your orange zest and stir until smooth and combined. You can keep a little of the orange zest back to decorate the cake.
- When the cake is completely cool, spread the icing on top of it and, if you wish, decorate it with the retained grated orange zest.
Keywords: cake, loaf cake, Earl Grey, Lady Grey, orange, cream cheese icing