Classic Cinnamon Tea Cake

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

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.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition
Sift flours and cinnamon together. Fold in alternately with milk in 2 batches.
Spoon into pan and smooth surface. Bake for 1 hour or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
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.

82 Comments

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 07 Nov 2020
    7:08 am
Yum! Anything with cinnamon- bring it on! I reckon caramel icing would be nice on it too!

- - mom101628 said
  - 05 Nov 2020
    11:30 pm
This is an old one but a good one. Thanks for bringing it back to mind. Great for the next cup of tea visitors if ever we are allowed to have them again here in Victoria.

- - mummabear said
  - 04 Nov 2020
    9:07 pm
Yum this would go so well with a cuppa each day!!

- - rovermum said
  - 04 Nov 2020
    9:19 am
I recall this from my childhood… a simple tea cake. We made one in Home Economics. It seems we don’t make anything simple like this anymore.

- - mushroom_2005 said
  - 03 Nov 2020
    11:46 am
Adding this to this week’s baking list. I LOVE cinnamon ????

- - mom103778 said
  - 03 Nov 2020
    8:48 am
I am going to make this tea cake today, it looks delicious. Hope mine comes out just as good.

- - mom467510 said
  - 03 Nov 2020
    12:32 am
Oh that is so yum!

- - Kylie said
  - 21 Oct 2020
    10:30 am
Gotta live a classic. Would this work with apple through it I wonder.

- - BellaB said
  - 08 Oct 2020
    3:01 pm
This is one of my favorite treats.

- - mom111464 said
  - 05 Oct 2020
    9:22 pm
Now this is something i am going to have to try. Looks so yummy and moist.

- - mom268263 said
  - 20 Sep 2020
    10:38 pm
I just love cinnamon, so look forward to making this as it’s a main flavour; and also love that the ingredients are essentially pantry staples.

- - am1979amanda said
  - 25 Aug 2020
    10:07 pm
Yummy will try this

- - Zmijka86 said
  - 31 Jul 2020
    6:48 pm
I love cinamon cakes .thank you for sharing

- - mom103778 said
  - 20 Jul 2020
    9:23 am
I love cinnamon. This Cinnamon Tea Cake looks nice and light, would love some with my coffee right now.

- - mom111059 said
  - 30 Jun 2020
    2:34 pm
mmmm this looks really good. Thank You.

- - ~Loui~ said
  - 25 Jun 2020
    1:53 am
I might make this for tomorrow when everyone gets home from school 🙂

- - mom418449 said
  - 10 Jun 2020
    1:28 pm
This looks delicious, just what I was looking for to make for Sunday afternoon tea 🙂

- - mom211270 said
  - 13 Mar 2020
    8:28 pm
I love a good light cake.

- - Petal53 said
  - 29 Jan 2020
    8:48 pm
I love a plain cake especially with a cup of coffee for arvo tea and this cinnamon tea cake sounds like it ‘takes the cake’ so to speak. I really enjoy a delicious cinnamon tea cake or apple and cinnamon tea cake so I’ll be making this asap.

- - mom112217 said
  - 17 Jan 2020
    9:06 am
Nice with a dollop of cream and a coffee!