This totally gorgeous tea cake is filled with golden raisins and served with berry butter. Totally high tea.
Tea , if only more cafes and restaurants had great tea. How many times have you been to a restaurant/ cafe and they bring you tea in a lovely looking tea pot with a teabag hanging out the top. Coffee has become an obsession for many. So its time for every cafe to also have good tea!.
I recently met a Singing Teacher and a Fire Fighter, two people who have made this their mission . The Rabbit Hole Tea Bar was born as an on line business and has picked up a good deal of momentum in cafes and restaurants. The business is growing with every satisfied sip of perfumed well brewed tea. On line, anyone, anywhere can buy and enjoy.
“Teabags may be marginally more convenient but what you gain in convenience, you lose in flavour. Nothing compares to tea brewed from full loose leaf, but teabags only have room for the small broken bits left over after the tasty whole leaves have been sifted out.
What’s more, the health and safety of consuming brewed petrochemical based nylon teabags (so-called “silk”) or other teabag materials is questionable and we don’t like to take those kinds of chances with our health or yours. Oh and in case you’re wondering, the carbon footprint of drinking loose leaf tea is substantially lower than drinking teabags. Another reason to un-bag your brew. ” -The Rabbit Hole.
Visit the beautifully designed website for more information on Tea and also which Cafes ( in Sydney and further afield) serve Rabbit Hole Tea…….and how anyone can buy it online……….or how your favoutrite cafe can also serve beautiful Rabbit Hole Tea.
I have brewed a Berry Bomb tea to make my Berry Tea cake.You can use any flavour tea you like for this delicious fruity loaf.
“Be the envy of your fellow commuters with freshly brewed loose leaf tea on the go. This environmentally friendly choice is BPA free and can be filled with the loose leaf tea of your choice, brewed to your exact taste and then plunged for the perfect cuppa.” – The Rabbit Hole
Cake made with Tea
The berry flavoured tea soaked into the big fat golden raisins and created the most exceptionally flavoured cake. I slathered it with unsalted butter mixed with a spoon of powdered sugar and some frozen raspberries
Berry Tea cake with golden raisins
Ingredients
- 300 ml boiling water 1 1/4 cups
- 1 Tablespoon Berry Bomb Rabbit Hole tea
- 120 gm butter chopped
- 350 gm golden raisins 3/4 pound
- 100 gm brown sugar a little under 1/2 cup
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 225 gm flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 while eggs beaten
- vanilla
- Berry butter
- 125 gm softened butter 1 stick
- 2 teaspoon powdered sugar
- 1- 2 Tablsp frozen raspberries defrosted
Instructions
- Brew the tea for 10 minutes to extract the maximum flavour
- Strain the tea into a saucepan with butter, sugar , raisins and bicarb. Melt on low, stirring until the butter and sugar has dissolved. Stand till cooled. Mix in eggs, flour and baking powder, until combined . Pour into a loaf tin or a round tube tin and bake at 180C
- Bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when tested
Butter
- Mix the ingredients together and serve
Wow, love the sound and look of your Berry Bomb Tea cake! Can’t wait to get hold of some of this delightful tea and make my own 🙂
I’m not a coffee drinker so am always looking for new teas…..wish I lived in Sydney so I could visit The Rabbit Hole rather than just visit their website.
Hi Jen thanks for your comment…….
i haven’t seen a baking dish that would yield a shape like that–how neat! i love the name, too, and frankly, everything else about it. 🙂
Thanks Grace. Yes they are fun baking tubes
That tea cake looks lovely! And what a gorgeous prize, who doesn’t love a nice cup of tea? 🙂
I do like the look of that fruit and cream jam!
Checked out the website – The teas look great! Awesome sweets btw 😉
I’m with you, it’s time more restaurants and bars paid attention to their tea offerings. As a tea drinker I’m always disappointed when a beautiful restaurant brings out a pot of tea with a tea bag dangling out of the top. Here’s hoping that more restaurants will listen.
Love the look of your panna cotta and berry bomb cake too! Now I’m going to check out The Rabbit Hole 😀
Thanks for your thoughts. I hope you like the look of it
I love tea and have never tried Rabbit Hole tea before. This is a very generous giveaway and I would love a chance to win. Thank you!
Good luck Cyndie the odds are good
The tea cake using a boring old earl grey, was simply unreal.
The thought of using a berry infused tea bring tears of joy to my eyes, and makes my stomach rumble.
Sure to quickly become a favourite of mine & score lots of points with the better half.
Big big win
Oh Jo!Thgank you . I hope that ypu do make the tea cake and enjoy …….. good luck
Specialist tea suppliers, thanks for the headsup Tania! I love your round tube cake – I’ve never used a baking tin like that before!
if anyone should have a tube tin it is you celia…….
Your photo is so lovely. The beautiful plates, the round cake slice…this is a really nice way to make a guest happy at teatime.
Thanks Karen, nice and bright and a lovely cup to drink from
Oh my that teacake looks amazing!
I am so intrigued by that travel press, what a perfect Mothers Day gift for my MIL.
Looking forward to exploring more of your kitchen stories!
Thanks Heather, give the tea cake a try your kids might like it. good Luck
Looks so delicious, very tempting pictures..
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I’m a new fan of The Rabbit Hole teas. they are super yummy.
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Thank you for your entry….. good luck Caroline
oh how good does that cake look. Lovely!
I had a free fancy tea bag recently, it was such a huge contraption with string, ‘silk’ cardboard, such a waste of resources for “convenience”. Give me loose leaf any day, (and after all that I didn’t even like it.)
I like the name of the company, very cool 🙂
Yes , tea leaf is best. I cant believe how strong the flavours at The Rabbit Hole are!
Looks good!!!! miam miam!!!! I miss you cake Tania
Thanks valerie
I thought I left a comment but then the internet dropped out so who would know.
I love the tea info and thanks for the reminder that Tea leaf is better then tea bag.
Also and the cakes where great can’t believe they were made from Rice…..
Thamks Charlie, yes this is beautiful tea. The cakes I made you were entirely gluten free and made from leftover rice….. the recipe is to follow
What pretty, pretty dishes…I so love flowery porcelain. It just looks so RIGHT for tea. As does the lovely cake.
Thanks Victoria!