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  • Makes 1
  • 1.5 hours
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 11 Ingredients

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This Classic Cinnamon Tea Cake is perfect for when you have guests popping in for afternoon tea, this simple but classic Cinnamon tea cake is light and delicious!


Ingredients (makes 1 Cake)

  • 180g Butter, cubed at room temp
  • 3/4 cup Caster sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 1/4 cups SR flour
  • 1/4 cup Plain flour
  • 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup Milk
  • 1 TBS Caster sugar extra
  • 1 tsp Ground cinnamon extra
  • 1 TBS Melted butter

Method

  1. Before you start mixing up your Cinnamon Tea Cake, preheat oven to 170°C. Grease and line a 20cm-round cake pan with baking paper. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla together until pale and creamy.
  2. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition
  3. Sift flours and cinnamon together. Fold in alternately with milk in 2 batches.
  4. Spoon into pan and smooth surface. Bake for 1 hour or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
  5. Cool your Cinnamon Tea Cake in the pan for 15 minutes. Carefully turn out onto a wire rack. Mix extra sugar, cinnamon and melted butter together. Pour over cake and set aside to cool. Serve.

If you've tried this Classic Cinnamon Tea Cake Recipe, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Otherwise, if you have a variation on this recipe (or a suggestion to make it even better), let us know that too.
  • I love old fashioned cakes like this. It looks like it would be delicious.

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  • I can taste it just thinking about it!

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  • Yum, this sounds simple and delicious! I love cinnamon too, so it’s perfect!

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  • I haven’t had a tea cake in so many years! Will have to try this recipe

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  • 100% going to give this one a try

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  • This cake looks delicious and moist

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  • Love a classic tea cake. Yummy

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  • Looks like the classic tea cake you would take to your grandmas which i love.

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  • sounds like a lovely tea cake

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  • Nice classic flavours, cinnamon is always a great ingredient.

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  • Looks and sounds delicious

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  • you can never go wrong like a light cinnamon tea cake

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  • I love cinnamon tea cake can’t wait to try this recipe.

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  • Yum, tea cakes are the best

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  • Reminds me of my mum,she always made this.So easy and delicious.

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  • An oldie but a goodie! Thanks!

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  • How lovely. Beautiful classic to make. Thanks

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  • Tea cakes always remind me of my nan

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  • Sounds like a beautiful cake recipe. Cinnamon is definitely christmassy so will have to try it.

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  • This will be perfect to put in my recipe book for that quick morning tea cake and not as rich as having cheesecake all the time. It’s simple but I bet it’s tasty

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