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

- - mom152736 said
  - 26 Aug 2019
    12:51 pm
looks sooooooooooo amazing. gorgeous cake. look at that fluff. love it.

- - Ellen said
  - 26 Aug 2019
    7:41 am
Thanks for sharing

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 26 Aug 2019
    7:11 am
It looks amazing and a very elegant cake thank you for sharing your recipe

- - mom371543 said
  - 24 Aug 2019
    8:26 am
Wow I haven’t made a teacake since school home ec 21 years wow must be time to give it a go again

- - tessie said
  - 23 Aug 2019
    1:17 pm
Oh I love this recipe. I’ve never heard of a Cinnamon Tea Cake but I’m definitely going to try it out

- - Sarah said
  - 21 Aug 2019
    7:43 pm
I adore all things cinnamon & this sounds utterly scrumptious!

- - mom265671 said
  - 20 Aug 2019
    11:08 pm
Looks like a good one with tea

- - ella12 said
  - 19 Aug 2019
    11:55 am
I love a nice piece of tea cake with a cuppa. This sounds very lovely.

- - rovermum said
  - 19 Aug 2019
    10:11 am
This takes me back to my childhood when food and treats were simpler. Mum used to make this and it was homely and yum and made me feel warm inside.
- Mum2archer replied
  
  27 Aug 2019 , 3:35 pm
  Simple is often so much better. I love the old classics!
- - mom62624 said
  - 19 Aug 2019
    9:49 am
A beautiful cake to make and share, thanks.

- - DaffyD said
  - 19 Aug 2019
    7:58 am
Love tea cake will be trying this out

- - happymum2018 said
  - 18 Aug 2019
    6:44 am
Looks great would be happy to make this

- - mom343701 said
  - 18 Aug 2019
    5:31 am
looks delicious

- - taynik46 said
  - 16 Aug 2019
    9:47 am
haven’t had this in years – thank you for the recipe – my girls would love this!

- - youngoldlady said
  - 12 Aug 2019
    10:50 pm
Love Cinnamon Tea Cake , great as a stand by for those times needed.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 11 Aug 2019
    2:09 pm
Looks great and sounds lovely thanks very much

- - rnash02 said
  - 11 Aug 2019
    10:35 am
Thanks for sharing, love trying new cake recipes

- - mom93821 said
  - 10 Aug 2019
    7:44 am
I love making cinnamon tea cake – it always gets served warm and gobbled up – a delicious cake.
- mom93821 replied
  
  11 Aug 2019 , 3:57 pm
  I like to serve it with a generous scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.
- - mom129591 said
  - 10 Aug 2019
    1:18 am
Delicious! Thank you for sharing this great recipe.

- - nadine_hill said
  - 09 Aug 2019
    7:27 pm
Looks so light and moist – definitely will be trying this recipe!