A Delicious Healthy Tea Cake Recipe
A tea cake recipe for tea time can be full of fat and calories. How about trying this delicious recipe? This is a sweet, fruity loaf you can bake with little or no fat, and eat without guilt, knowing it´s good for you. This bran loaf is as tasty as any fat laden cake. Tea Cake Recipe Ingredients- 1 cup of All Bran or similar cereal
- 2 tablespoons of runny honey
- 1 cup of mixed dried fruit
- 1 cup of cold tea
- 1 and 1/4 cups of self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
Method- Mix all the ingredients, except the flour and baking powder, in a large bowl.
- Cover and leave it in a cool place for at least two hours, or you could put it in the fridge overnight, then let it come back to room temperature for an hour before continuing in the morning.
- Preheat the oven.
- Mix in the flour and baking powder, adding more liquid if needed to make a stiff dropping consistency. Make sure you capture all the flour from the sides of the bowl into the mixture.
- Grease and flour two 1lb loaf tins, placing some greaseproof paper in the bottom. To make it easier to turn them out, this can come up the sides and above the side edges. Turn half the mixture into each tin and spread it evenly throughout.Cook them side by side in the middle of the oven for one hour.
- Make sure they are cooked through by pushing a pointed knife in through one of the cracks on the top. When you pull it out, it should be clean with no mixture smeared on it.
- Allow the loaves to cool for about five minutes in the tins, then turn the loaves out onto a cooling tray.
- When they are cold, store them in an airtight tin. They will keep well for up to a week.
- Cut them into slices to serve.
Have some butter or low fat spread on the side when you serve the slices. They’ll be just as good with spread or without. Everyone will eat and love this cake recipe and you should be surprised if you have even a crumb left over.
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