Earl Grey Loaf Cake

This is a very simple loaf cake for occasions when you want something sweet but nothing too decadent. This recipe is adapted from one that a colleague gave me.

Earl Grey Loaf Cake

Preheat oven 175c.

Recipe

3 bags of earl grey tea ( leaves removed from bag )

60 ml boiling water

80ml milk

150g butter

160g sugar

2 eggs

200g Self Raising flour

Icing ( optional )

230g icing sugar

1.5 tbsp marmalade

3 tbsp orange juice - ( u can use water if you don't have any oranges )\

Beat butter and sugar til soft and fluffy. Seep tea leaves in boiling water for about 5 minutes. Add cold milk to tea. Add eggs to butter mixture. Fold in 1/2 the flour , then 1/2 the milk into the butter mixture. Repeat. Spoon mixture into a 900lb loaf tin and bake for 25-30 minutes.

To make icing-

Stir in orange juice and marmalade into icing sugar to make a slight sticky but runny icing and pour onto cake when its cooled down. The icing will help seal in the flavour of the cake.

Done!