Earl Grey & Raspberry Loaves

Raspberry & Earl Grey Loaves

We’re well into British Summer Time and every now and then, between the heavy rainstorms, the sun has been showing itself. This means I want fresher, less rich bakes. With more fruity and floral flavours. Last year I made an Earl Grey and Poppy Seed loaf for the people across at Realm & Empire, and I wanted to do something similar this year. Raspberry & Earl Grey aren’t necessarily the first things you’d match together, but they complement each other perfectly and with a little lemon rind mixed through you get that fresh but floral taste I’d been craving.

Raspberry & Earl Grey Loaves

To be honest, the craving to bake with raspberries came after a recent trip to Leeds, where I got to eat a Cardamom & Raspberry cake from one of the local coffee shops (which I’m fairly certain was supplied by Noisette’s Bakehouse). I really want to make them, which got me looking at new circular cake tins with straight sides, but as I can’t afford to buy them at the moment and I only wanted to make those particular cakes if I could do them like that, I decided to match things up a little differently.

Raspberry & Earl Grey Loaves

Raspberry & Earl Grey Loaves

The original recipe for this cake called for more yoghurt, but I felt that while it did create a wonderfully moist cake, it wasn’t quite cake-y enough for what I wanted, so I took a little of it out. The earl grey flavour can greatly depend on the tea leaves you are using. This one used Marks & Spencer teabags and started as 2, increasing to 3 when I felt it didn’t come through strongly enough.

Raspberry & Earl Grey Loaves

Earl Grey & Raspberry Loaves
 
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Serves: 1 Loaf or 6 Mini Loaves
Ingredients
  • 60ml vegetable oil
  • 200g sugar
  • 150ml greek yogurt
  • 3 medium eggs
  • Zest of ½ lemon (save the other half for decoration)
  • ½ tbsp lemon juice
  • 200g all purpose flour
  • 3 teabags earl grey, torn open
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • **For the Drizzle**
  • 50g White chocolate, melted
  • 1 Earl Grey Tea Bag
  • 150g fresh raspberries, chopped to varying sizes
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C(160°C fan assisted) and grease/line a loaf tin.
  2. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat together the oil and sugar. Add the yoghurt, eggs and lemon zest/juice. Beat well after the addition of each.
  3. In a separate bowl mix together the flour, earl grey, baking powder and salt.
  4. With the mixer set to a medium low speed add in the flour mixture until just combined.
  5. Stir through the raspberries, keeping a few to the side to scatter over the top just before baking.
  6. Transfer to the prepared tin, scatter the leftover raspberries over and place in your pre-heated oven .
  7. Bake for 50-55minutes, until a tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  8. Allow to cool for 20 minutes in the tin and transfer to a wire rack.
  9. While cooling on the rack, melt the white chocolate, stir through the earl grey and drizzle over the cake.
 

4 thoughts on “Earl Grey & Raspberry Loaves

    1. Thanks Claire!

      I use EasyRecipe, the free version. I should probably get around to doing the paid one at some point. It’s the one I’ve used since I started blogging like 3-4 years ago so there may well be better out there.

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