Chai & Berry Orange Christmas Cake

Name: Chai & Berry Orange Christmas Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 250 g butter; 250 g muscovado sugar; 4 eggs; 300 g plain flour; 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon; 1 kg mixed dried fruit; 200 g dried cranberries; 2 oranges, zest of; 150 ml chai tea (Baby, It's Cold Outside Tea); 230 ml berry orange tea; 230 g sugar

Submitted by The_TeaShed

"Two TeaShed teas infused into a Christmas cake. Chai & Berry Orange are two quite festive flavours and what better way to use them than in a fruity pre-Christmas Christmas cake?!"

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Ready In:: 1hr 50mins
Ingredients:: 11
Serves:: 8

ingredients

250 g butter
250 g muscovado sugar
4 eggs
300 g plain flour
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 kg mixed dried fruit
200 g dried cranberries
2 oranges, zest of
150 ml chai tea (Baby, It's Cold Outside Tea)
230 ml berry orange tea
230 g sugar

directions

Soak the dried fruit in strong brewed Baby, It's Cold Outside Chai Tea for at least 2 hours.
In a mixing bowl, beat the butter, sugar, eggs and cinnamon until smooth. Mix in the fruit, cranberries and orange zest until nicely distributed. Then sift the flour and fold it into the batter.
Decant the mixture into lined round cake tin and smooth the surface with a spatula.
Bake at 150C for 1.5 - 2 hours or until a skewer comes out of the cake clean.
Cool the cake on a wire rack before glazing.
For the glaze: heat 1 cup of water and brew 2 Berry Orange tea bags for 10 minutes. Remove the tea bags, boil the tea in a pan and add 1 cup of sugar. Heat on low for 10 minutes until all the sugar has dissolved and the volume reduced by half.
Let it cool for 20 minutes before drizzling over the cake. Keep in an airtight container for up to 3 months.