In India, a Tea Cake is actually a butter cake, usually ready to serve warm from the oven in less than 30 minutes. Its Ingredients mainly consist of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar. However, there are several different types of tea cake recipes out there.
While making all of them are not “a piece of cake”, you can definitely whisk the following 10 tea cake recipes at home. Make them yourself and make tea, drinking the highlight of your day as it should be.
1. Masala Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 All-Purpose Flour
🍵 Condensed Milk
🍵 Unsalted Butter
🍵 Masala Chai Without Sugar
🍵 Powdered Sugar
🍵 Masala Chai Essence
🍵 Baking Powder
🍵 Baking Soda
🍵 Salt
Instructions
In a bowl, take soft butter, add powdered sugar, condensed milk and mix everything until combined. Mix dry and wet ingredients and start adding masala chai to the mixture. Prepare a batter of pouring consistency. Add a few drops of Masala chai essence and mix it. Pour the prepared batter into the tin and tap it on the counter. Bake it in preheated oven at 180 C for 35 min. After 35 minutes, take the cake out from the oven. Unmould it and serve one of the most popular Indian tea cake recipes.
2. Chocolate Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 Dark chocolate melted
🍵 Dark chocolate chopped
🍵 Refined flour
🍵 Sugar
🍵 Butter
🍵 Baking powder
🍵 Cocoa powder
🍵 Eggs
🍵 Vanilla essence
🍵 Milk
🍵 Walnuts chopped
🍵 Icing sugar
Instructions
Mix sugar and butter on low flame. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and cocoa powder in a bowl. Add eggs one by one into the sugar-butter mixture and cream further. Then mix vanilla essence, cream and flour mixture, and milk in batches of three. Add melted chocolate and walnuts. Add chopped chocolate and mix well. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool. Slice and dust some icing sugar on it. And serve.
3. Lemon Tea Cake Recipes
Ingredients
🍵 Lemon
🍵 Brown sugar
🍵 Baking powder
🍵 Milk
🍵 All-purpose flour
🍵 Egg
🍵 Butter
Instructions
Add butter along with brown sugar in a bowl and beat them together to make a cream. Once done, add eggs, mix them, and then lemon zest, baking powder, and all-purpose flour. Mix all the ingredients. Finally, add milk to it. Once the cake batter is ready, take a loaf tin, apply a little butter all over it. Bake the cake. The Lemon tea cake is ready.
4. Indian Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 Dried Fruit
🍵 Indian tea cooled
🍵 Self Raising Flour
🍵 Eggs lightly beaten
🍵 Light Brown Sugar
Instructions
Soak fruit in tea overnight. Mix fruit, flour, eggs, and sugar together and pour into a greased 20cm loose-bottomed round tin. Add 1.5 cups of water to it and place a trivet into it. Place the cake tin on top. Lock-on lid and close Pressure Valve. Cook at High Pressure for 1 hour. When it beeps, allow a 10-minute Natural Pressure Release.
5. Pumpkin Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 Pumpkin puree
🍵 Brown sugar
🍵 Allspice
🍵 Baking powder
🍵 Flour
🍵 Butter
🍵 Eggs
🍵 Sugar
Instructions
This is one of the easy tea cake recipes where all you need to do is mix all the ingredients together, whisk this mixture and bake for 30mins. Once the cake is ready, you can add a creamy coating of aromatic whipped cream, nuts, or berries. Serve with some White gold tea to make it taste even better.
6. Coffee Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 All-purpose flour
🍵 Baking powder
🍵 Salt
🍵 Baking soda
🍵 Light brown sugar
🍵 Finely ground coffee beans
🍵 Cold butter
🍵 Cream
🍵 Vanilla extract
🍵 Cold-brewed espresso or double-strength coffee
🍵 Brown sugar
🍵 Sugar
Instructions
Start with Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, brown sugar, and the ground coffee beans. Add the butter, cream, vanilla, and cold espresso and continue mixing until the dough just comes together. Mix the brown sugar with the white sugar. Sprinkle the round lightly with the sugar and cut it into eight triangles. Bake for 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool. Cut into wedges along the lines.
7. Vanilla Sponge Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 Maida
🍵 Eggs
🍵 Sugar
🍵 Oil
🍵 Baking powder
🍵 Milk
🍵 Vanilla extract
🍵 Nuts
Instructions
In a bowl, add the flour and baking powder. In a separate bowl, add sugar and oil. To the sugar-oil mixture, add eggs one at a time and beat them well with the electric mixer until well combined. Add vanilla, half of the dry ingredients, and milk to the batter and mix in gently. Now add the leftover dry ingredients and combine until the batter has no large flour pockets. Gently fold the nuts into the batter. Transfer the batter to a cake pan lined with parchment. Bake until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
8. Honey Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 Unsalted butter
🍵 All-purpose flour
🍵 Sugar
🍵 Finely grated orange zest
🍵 Baking powder
🍵 Baking soda
🍵 Anise seeds
🍵 Ground ginger
🍵 Cinnamon
🍵 Kosher salt
🍵 Freshly ground pepper
🍵 Honey
🍵 Hot water
🍵 Cognac
Instructions
Whisk the flour with sugar, orange zest, baking powder, baking soda, anise seeds, ginger, cinnamon, salt, and pepper in a bowl. In the bowl, combine 3/4 cup of the honey with the water, Cognac, and melted butter; mix until blended. Add the flour mixture and mix at medium-low speed until incorporated. Microwave the remaining 2 tablespoons of honey for 20 seconds. Brush the top and sides with the honey. Let the cake cool for about 30 minutes before serving.
9. Orange Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 Eggs
🍵 All-purpose flour
🍵 Almond powder
🍵 Sugar
🍵 Orange juice
🍵 Grated orange zest
🍵 Confectioners & sugar
🍵 Vanilla essence
🍵 Butter
Instructions
Sift all-purpose flour with baking powder and almond powder, and then keep it aside. Beat unsalted butter and caster sugar until fluffy, then add the egg one at a time. Add Vanilla essence, orange zest, and juice & mix well. Add flour mixture and fold it nicely. Pour into the prepared tin. Bake at 180°C for about 25 to 30 minutes. Serve with Halmari tea to bring out its taste.
10. Green Tea Cake
Ingredients
🍵 Fat-free softened cream cheese
🍵 Eggs, beaten
🍵 White sugar
🍵 Green tea powder
🍵 Vanilla extract
🍵 Prepared graham cracker pie crust
Instructions
In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Mix in the green tea powder, eggs, and vanilla extract until the mixture gets light and creamy; pour into the prepared crust. Bake it in a preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until the center jiggles evenly when the cake is shaken lightly. Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.
Try all of these tea cake recipes at home, and don’t forget to pair them with a hot cup of Halmari tea. Serve them to your friends and family and enjoy 2022 to its fullest.
