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Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake Recipe

Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake Recipe

Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake Recipe

This cake is ideal to serve as tea cake for your guests during Chinese New Year, but of course also on Valentine’s Day.
By Ann Low

Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake Recipe

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Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake Recipe


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  • Author: Ann Low
  • Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 cake 1x

Description

This cake is ideal to serve as tea cake for your guests during Chinese New Year, but of course also on Valentine’s Day.


Ingredients

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Ingredients

  • 55g Plain flour
  • 2 tbsp Almond ground/meal
  • 3 Egg yolks (large size egg – 70g each)
  • 20g Sugar
  • 50g Canola oil
  • 80ml Fresh milk
  • 2 Earl Grey tea bags

Meringue

  • 75g Sugar
  • 3/4 tbsp Corn flour (7g)
  • 3 Egg whites

Instructions

  1. Heat up fresh milk (not boiled and off heat), add Earl Grey tea leaves in it. Cover and leave to cool then strain tea leaves through a fine sieve and set aside (keep tea leaves).
  2. Sift flour twice and mix well with almond meal. Combine egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and mix well. Add Earl Grey tea and canola oil and blend together. Add flour mixture and mix well with a hand whisk and lastly add in the tea leaves. Mix well again and set aside.
  3. Make meringue – Combine sugar and corn flour. Beat egg whites until foamy. Add half the sugar and flour mixture and continue beating for a few minutes, then add remaining sugar and flour mixture and beat until egg whites are glossy, with stiff peaks.
  4. Gradually pour all the egg mixture into the meringue at low speed then stop machine. Using a rubber spatula and fold the mixture well.
  5. Pour batter evenly into the ungreased chiffon cake pan. Gently bang the pan on the table top to release air bubbles.
  6. Place cake pan in the oven and bake for about 30-40 minutes then switch oven to lower grill for 5 minutes.
  7. When cake is done, remove from oven and turn the pan over. Leave cake to cool in pan.
  8. Once cake has cooled completely, carefully run a knife around the sides of the cake to loosen it.
  • Prep Time: 30 mins
  • Cook Time: 40 mins
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