How to make Irish Tea Cake | Vanilla Cake | Serves 10

This classic Irish cake is flavored with vanilla for a light snack cake ideal for any time of the year and best served alongside a hot cup of tea.
Adapted from Irish Family Vacations
Serves 10
Ingredients:
120 grams / 4.23 ounces butter softened
200 grams / 1 cup superfine/caster sugar
110 grams / 2 large eggs room temperature
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
282 grams / 1 ¾ cups plain flour
8 grams / 2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon sea salt
130 grams / ½ cup milk
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and line the base of a baking tin with parchment paper.
- Place the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat until pale and fluffy, approximately 3 minutes.
- Add in one egg and whip until combined.
- Repeat with the remaining egg.
- Add in the vanilla extract and whip to combine.
- In a separate bowl, toss the flour, baking powder and salt and stir together.
- Add ¼ of the flour mixture into the butter egg mixture and combine on low speed until no portions remain on the edge of your bowl.
- Pour in ¼ of the milk and combine on low until just incorporated.
- Repeat by adding in the flour and milk in portions and mixing on low speed until your batter has been formed.
- Spoon the cake batter into your cake pan and spread out evenly.
- Bake in the oven until the exterior is golden brown and a cake tester comes out clean from the center of the cake, approximately 35 minutes.
- Remove and allow to cool in the cake tin for 5 minutes before removing and setting onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Sprinkle over powdered sugar.
- Slice, serve and dig in.
- Enjoy!
Recipe can be found at roamingtaste.com/irish-tea-cake/
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