Baking With Tea: Earl Grey Chocolate Cake

I have finally tried baking with tea! Super excited to share the recipe and results here.

and chocolate!

What is it?

A variation of this recipe for a fudgy earl grey orange chocolate cake!

I made a the following substitutions from the original recipe and didn’t end up making the glaze:

• For Cake:
• 1 cups cups yogurt (instead of 1 1/4 cups unsweetened applesauce)
• ³/₄ cup strongly brewed lavender earl grey tea (instead of earl grey tea)
• ³/₄ cup vegetable oil (instead of melted refined coconut oil)
• ³/₄ cup regular sugar (instead of coconut sugar or cane sugar)

this is the tea I used!

Tasting Notes

I definitely tasted the orange and chocolate–there was a slight hint of earl grey. Overall not too sweet. It wasn’t quite the same as those lovely earl grey truffles, but I’d try making this again!

Why I made it

I’ve always enjoyed tea and tea flavored things (especially those tea chocolates I talked about last week). I was inspired by Kimberly from Tea is A Wish Your Heart Makes to try my hand at baking with tea!

I was debating between making this NYT times recipe vs. the one I made above. Both were similar in that they combined chocolate, orange, and earl grey, but I liked the fact that this one used cocoa powder. The chocolate chips I had originally purchased for the other recipe were almost done hehe 🙂

Sharing Good News

Here are two things I enjoyed:

• California Highway becomes first road made from recycled plastic | Good News Network
• NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps to become 1st Black woman to join International Space Station | Good Black News

And a few things keeping my spirits up lately:

1. We had the perfect weather this weekend in Chicago and enjoyed time with friends outside. I got to share this cake on a picnic with some friends 🙂
2. We also discovered this awesome nature walk/park south of Lincoln Park that’s not too far from our home–there are still so many places to explore!!

Ways to Help
I’ll feature a different organization on each blog post. Full list here (COVID) and here (BLM)

Today’s Organization: Good Kids Mad City :
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GKMC – Englewood is always searching for partners in the community to collaborate with, as well as community volunteers and youth to be involved in the ongoing effort to create a better community. From leadership development workshops to direct community service.  We are always searching for a better way to impact the lives of those we serve and preparing them to be the future leaders of the generation.

Thanks, and enjoy your week!
Meeka