CHAI TEA CAKE

This was the wedding cake when our friends Christelle and Stahl got married at a lodge in the Outjo district, and I knew that I had to have the recipe.

Ingredients:

375 g butter

375 ml sugar

125 ml Chai tea powder

5 eggs, room temperature

2.5 ml vanilla essence

750 ml cake flour

5 ml ground cinnamon

5 ml baking powder

2.5 ml bicarbonate of soda

2.5 ml salt

250 ml buttermilk

For the icing

125 g butter

375 ml icing sugar

5 ml vanilla essence

10 ml ground cinnamon

A little bit of milk for the right consistency

Instructions:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C.

• Beat the butter, sugar and tea powder in a big mixing bowl until light and creamy.

• Add eggs one by one while still beating.

• Stir in the vanilla essence.

• Sieve the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into a separate bowl.

• Add the buttermilk to the butter mixture.

• Gradually stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture. It should be stiff but very creamy and light.

• Pour into two round (24 cm) cake tins and bake for 30–45 minutes.

• Let cool.

• Cream butter with sieved icing sugar.

• Add the vanilla, milk and cinnamon.

• Mix until you have a creamy paste to spread over the cake.

• Cover the whole cake with icing and enjoy!

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