Earl Grey Amish Friendship Bread Tea Cakes
Add flair and class to your recipe box with this fragrant Earl Grey Amish Friendship Bread Tea Cake recipe.
Servings: 1 9x9 cake
Ingredients
- 1½ cups milk divided
- 5 Earl Grey tea bags
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread starter
- 7 ounces unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest finely grated
- Earl Grey Glaze (you can skip the steps for milk and tea bags since you've done the work in this recipe)
Instructions
- Place the milk in a microwave-safe bowl or measuring cup and warm in microwave until it is hot but not boiling, about 30-45 seconds.
- Add tea bags and allow to steep for 15 minutes, squeezing the bags with a spoon once or twice.
- Remove tea bags and allow to cool. Reserve 1 cup for the recipe and the remaining ½ cup for the glaze.
- Preheat oven to 325° F (165° C).
- Grease a 9" x 9" baking pan or line with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the starter, butter, sugar and vanilla. Add 1 cup of the infused milk. Add the eggs one at a time and mix well.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk or sift baking powder, baking soda, salt, flour and lemon zest.
- Fold dry ingredients into the batter until incorporated.
- Pour mixture into baking pan, spreading the batter evenly.
- Bake for 1 hour or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
- Allow to cool and then cut the cake into even squares. Drizzle liberally with Earl Grey Glaze.
- ENJOY!
Notes
The tea-steeped milk is portioned for this recipe and the accompanying glaze recipe. If you don't want to make the glaze, steep 1½ cups milk with 3 tea bags which will yield the 1 cup needed for the recipe.
Adapted from Tastemade and Country Living.