Lees' 12 Jam Teacakes 220g

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Mainly down to the marshmallow - quite a few own-branded ones just couldn't quite get it to be light enough.

Step 1 With a wooden spoon or mixer, mix together the butter and sugar. Add the cocoa powder, salt, vanilla and flour. Rub the ingredients together with the tips of your fingers until it comes together into a dough. Roll it into a ball, wrap in cling film and rest in the fridge for half an hour.Along with one of the tea cake recipes below, I recommend serving some savoury options with your afternoon tea. Read my article What to Serve with Afternoon Tea to learn more. 5 Star Tea Cake Recipes! Mallow (38%) (Sugar, Glucose syrup, Egg white), Dark chocolate (34%) (Sugar, Cocoa mass, Cocoa butter, Skimmed milk powder, Palm oil, Shea butter, Emulsifier [ soya lecithin], Flavouring), Biscuit (28%) (Fortified wheat flour [ wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin], Vegetable oil [palm, rapeseed], Sugar, Raising agents [sodium bicarbonate, disodium diphosphate]). Stir-up Sunday 2023: when you should make your Christmas pudding this year - and best recipes to try Last but not least, I tried out a mini chocolate and filled tea cakes from Morrisons Market Street and I have some thoughts. The recipe uses dark brown muscovado sugar, but you can substitute this for any brown sugar that you like. I prefer a 50/50 mix of light brown and dark brown soft sugar, and golden sultanas rather than a fruit mix. Don’t skip the orange syrup and orange rinds – they really make this recipe stand out. 3. Cinnamon Spiced Tea Cake Recipe Image Credit: Jessica Holmes

Unlike many other tea cake recipes, this one is dairy free. You can substitute the egg for a flax egg too if you’d like to make it vegan. Make sure you start this recipe the day before you need it. You will need to roast or stew your rhubarb, then soak it in the tea along with the sugar and dried fruits overnight before you can mix it all up. 5. Chocolate Marshmallow Tea Cake Recipe Cinnamon is the only spice used in this recipe, but you could potentially substitute the teaspoon of cinnamon for any other spice. If you have a jar of gingerbread spice or a festive spice mix, this recipe would be great for it too. 4. Unusual Tea Cake Recipe Image Credit: MandyCarefully pipe some chocolate on the marshmallow and a rim of chocolate around the biscuit base and swiftly place the biscuit on top of the marshmallow filled dome. Smooth the join with a knife.

For a dried fruit tea cake recipe, I recommend Waitrose Fruity Earl Grey Tea Loaf. It’s a dark and malty tea loaf that’s flavoured with Earl Grey tea and orange. This combination is a classic – many tea brands combine Earl Grey with orange naturally, including Twinings Lady Grey.

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The chocolate? Milky and thin. The marshmallow? Light, airy and creamy. The biscuit base? Moist but not soggy. Alex Salmond apparently offered a Caramel Wafer and a cup of tea to Rupert Murdoch while he was entertaining the boss of News International at Bute House. In Kent, the teacake is known as a "huffkin", which is often flavoured with hops, especially at the time of harvesting hops in September. In Sussex, a luxurious version of the teacake with added aromatics such as nutmeg, cinnamon and rose water is still sometimes made and called a manchet or Lady Arundel's Manchet. BBC Good Food has some bad recipes floating around their database… but where they usually shine is with traditional British foods. Their simple teacake recipe is one of the best! The recipe makes 6 tea cakes and requires yeast, fruit, spices and typical baking ingredients. You don’t need a bread maker.

Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured work surface and divide it into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a ball, then flatten slightly into a bun shape using the palms of your hands. Cover the teacakes with a tea towel, and set aside to rise for 30 to 40 minutes. They have even served as inspiration for a wedding cake, with Mathew Watt, 37, and wife Siobhan, 34, going a bit further than the average couple with their love for the Teacake. The company grew from these humble beginnings into a successful private baking company before striking it rich with their confectionery line. Melt the remaining chocolate, and place into a disposable piping bag with a sealed end. Set aside to cool and stiffen up a bit, but not harden.Place the rounds on a flat plate or board and chill in the fridge for 10 minutes. Make sure the biscuits are perfectly round and well chilled, otherwise they might spread or shrink when baked. Two Scottish takeaways feature in Deliveroo top 100 worldwide roundup - including acclaimed Thai restaurant In Australia and India, a teacake is typically a butter cake, usually ready to serve warm from the oven in less than 30 minutes. Ingredients typically consist of flour, eggs, butter, cinnamon and sugar. It is traditionally served warm as an accompaniment to tea. Australian teacakes are sprinkled with cinnamon and fine (caster) sugar, and are usually served warm from the oven with additional butter. [7] [8] See also [ edit ]