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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

French Earl Grey - Vanilla Chiffon Cake



An exotic fruit salad of aromatic delights, blended with China black tea, bergamot oil, hibiscus, sunflowers and rose petals.



Ingredients: (for a 20cm chiffon)

(A)
5 egg yolks
20 sugar
70g oil
70g earl grey tea
70g self-raising flour
2 tbsp French Earl Grey - grind into dust
1 vanilla bean - split and scrap out the seeds (reserve the pod for other purposes)



(B)
5 egg whites
80g caster sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar

  • Preheat oven to 150 degrees C.
  • Beat egg yolks and sugar until thick and pale.  Gradually add in oil, tea, vanilla and tea dust. Beat until well combined.
  • Sift flour into a mixing bowl.  Gradually whisk in the egg yolk  mixture in a slow and steady stream.
  • In another bowl, beat egg whites until foamy, add in cream of tartar and beat until soft peaks form.  Gradually add in sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
  • Gently fold the beaten egg whites into the flour/egg yolk mixture in 3 batches. 
  • Pour batter into an ungreased tube pan.
  • Bake for about an hour or until cook.
  • Remove cake from the oven and invert the pan to cool.
  • Unmould the cake when it is completely cool.


    16 comments:

    1. Having tea and cake at the same time in the mouth.... I loves this.

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    2. I love the bergamot flavour of earl grey tea... and the aroma-filled kitchen when the cake was taken out from the oven.

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    3. Hi Veronica, such a nicely crusted chiffon and extraordinary flavour. I still like the 'little holes' that shows the cake is light and fluffy.

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    4. Veronica,
      This Earl Grey Tea Chiffon looks so soft and spongy. That is a special tea too~
      mui..^^

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    5. Your chiffon sound so fragrance with Earl grey tea.

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    6. Your chiffon cake looks perfectly baked! I love the golden crust and the spongy look! One of my favourite cake to indulge! And Earl Grey is my most favourite tea!

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    7. Cake looks awesomely delicious...loved your cake picture too.

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    8. It very special chiffon cake, love earl grey tea. Thanks for sharing.

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    9. It's good to see some chiffon cakes around as I haven't made it for a long time! This is a very special flavour of chiffon!

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    10. Lovely chiffon cake! The Earl Grey makes it outstanding.

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    11. this chiffon looks so soft and fluffy, great to eat a few slices with tea yum!

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    12. oooh yummy... earl grey is one of my fav!! Looking at hw soft yr chiffon is... feel like having a bite of it now:)

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    13. This cake looks fantastic!! What a great idea to add in the tea - I bet it added a lovely touch flavour-wise :)

      You have a lovely blog here! As fellow foodies we can't wait to read more of your delicious posts! New follower here :)

      Have a great weekend,

      Chloe & Sarah

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      1. Hi Chloe & Sarah, thanks for visiting my blog and leaving lovely comments. Hope to see you again.

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