Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf

Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf. This fragrant bake contains rosewater, cardamon and pistachios for a Middle Eastern twist on a classic tea loaf. Transfer cooled loaf to a board; remove parchment. Chai spice tastes great in your tea mug and even better in these moist and tender loaf cakes that make great do-ahead gifts.

A wide variety of flavored tea leaf options are available to you, such as processing type, certification, and style. Drizzle or spread the icing over the top of the tea loaf. Cut into slices and eat with lashings of butter. You can cook Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf

1. You need 220 g of luxury dried mixed fruit.
2. Prepare 40 g of butter.
3. You need 145 ml of water.
4. Prepare 175 g of self raising flour.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda.
6. It's 5 of cardamom pods, de-seeded and crushed.
7. It's 1 tsp of Mixed Spice.
8. You need 1 pinch of salt.
9. You need 1 of egg.
10. It's 110 g of dark muscavado sugar.
11. You need Half of a cooking apple, cored and sliced.

Welcome to The Fragrant Leaf - specializing in fine, handcrafted green, oolong, white and black loose-leaf teas and artisan teaware from Asia. The tea plant is an evergreen of the Camellia family that is native to China, Tibet and northern India. This delicious tea loaf is adapted from Julie Duff's wonderful Cakes from Around the World. Ras-el-hanout is a complex Moroccan spice blend that includes coriander, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and rose petals and is now available in most delicatessens and supermarkets.

Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 160C fan. Grease and line with parchment paper a 1lb loaf tin..
2. Put the mixed dried fruit, butter and water into a pan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5-10 minutes.Remove from the heat and set aside to cool a little..
3. Cream together the egg and sugar for 10 minutes until paler in colour using a beater. Add the cardamom and mixed spice.
4. Sift the flour, bicarb of soda and salt into a separate bowl..
5. Add half of the flour mixture into the egg/sugar mixture and mix gently, followed by half of the warm fruit mixture. Add the remaining half of the flour mixture followed by the remaining half of the fruit mixture until all incorporated. Mix gently as you go..
6. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin. Pop the apple slices on top and push down into the batter slightly so they are nestled nicely. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave in the tin for 20 minutes, then turn out not a wire rack to cool..

This spiced fruited tea loaf is divine, enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea. It's moist, light & full of flavor. Fragrant Tea Olive is a Chinese native shrub that gets wonderfully scented flowers in the fall and spring. It is an evergreen shrub that gets very tall and is best used as a screening plant. My Spiced Banana Nut Loaf is redolent of these fragrant spices, and is a real treat with a cup of coffee or tea.