35- Ealy Grey tea yoghurt cakes

I love baking and this recipe was perfect for the day in which I had no butter but pots of nearly out of date yoghurt!
If you like cake and earl grey tea, this is something you should definitely try and it's very simple to make!
The cakes ended up slightly zesty from the lemon, lightly fragrant from the earl grey tea and overall not a very sweet cake. Ideal with the company of some milky tea.

Early grey tea yoghurt cake

3 tea bags (6/7 grams, it doesn't matter too much)

60 mls milk

150g self raising flour

100g ground almonds

215g caster sugar

1 tsp salt

1tsp baking powder

1 zest and juice of a lemon (lazy lemon if you don't have the real thing)

60ml vegetable oil

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

2 eggs

Optional: Some flaked almonds and chocolate chips sprinkled on top for decoration.

Instructions

1. Empty the tea leaves from the tea bags and place the milk into a microwaveable bowl. Heat up the milk on a low heat and stir the tea leaves for the flavour to brew into the milk. Leave aside.
2. Measure out the ground almonds, flour, sugar and salt, baking powder and sift through a sieve into a bowl. 
3. In another bowl, whisk the yoghurt,  oil , lemon juice, zest and vanilla essence until combined. Stir in th earl grey tea leaves and milk and mix.
4. In a small bowl, crack the egg and give it a little whisk to aerate the eggs for a light texture.
5. Combine the whisked eggs into the other wet ingredients bowl and combine until smooth.
6. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and fold the ingredients delicately, don't over mix it.
7. Place the mixture into the desired cake tins or cupcake cups.
8. Sprinkle crushed flaked almonds and chocolate chips onto the top if desired
9. Bake for 25 mins for cupcakes and around 45 mins for a cake, skewer the middle of the cake time to time to see it is cooked. A clean skewer is ideal, if it isn't it will need to be in the oven for longer.

Lastly, enjoy eating your scrumptious cake!