Tea cake made from tea leaves with jam in a hurry

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a tea cake from tea leaves with jam? First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. Take the flour of the highest grade. Part of the wheat flour can be replaced with whole grain, if desired. Adjust the amount of sugar to your liking, you can take it less if your jam is already very sweet.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour 200 ml of boiling water into a bag of black tea. The welding should be strong enough. Then squeeze the bag and throw it away.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour sugar into a bowl. Add the egg and beat everything with a mixer until fluffy. At this stage, it is better to use a mixer, since the splendor of the pie depends on properly beaten eggs.

4. Step 4:

   

   Next, with constant stirring, pour in a thin stream of hot tea leaves so that the egg does not curdle. You can stir with a whisk or mixer at low speed. When using the mixer, a lush air foam will appear on the surface.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour in the vegetable oil and mix. Then add the jam and mix everything until smooth.

6. Step 6:

   

   Add the sifted flour in parts, stirring the dough until smooth. Keep in mind that you may need more or less flour. The exact amount depends on the size of the egg, the density of the jam and the quality of the flour itself.

8. Step 7:

   

   At the end, pour soda into the dough and mix well. Soda can also be sifted immediately together with flour. Depending on the selected jam and its acid, you can replace the soda with baking powder. If the jam is clearly sour, for example, from currants, cherries, oranges, then you can add soda, and when using sweet jam, such as apricot, you can replace the soda with baking powder.

9. Step 8:

   

   You should get a homogeneous semi-thick flowing dough, like a charlotte. And a few words about jam. I baked two kinds of this pie. One with cherry jam, the other with apricot jam. Both are store-bought. After adding soda, the dough with cherry has acquired such a gray shade (see step 9), while with apricot it has retained a beautiful yellow color (see step 8).

10. Step 9:

    

    Due to the high acid content, cherry, currant jam can change the color of the dough to gray. At the same time, in the oven outside and closer to the edges, this dough again changes color to golden, but inside in the center remains grayish. It is worth noting that such transformations do not affect the taste and texture of the pie. Therefore, decide for yourself which jam is better to add. I liked both pies, although the cherry color is unusual, to put it mildly.

11. Step 10:

    

    Pour the dough into a baking dish. Any heat-resistant form (18-20 cm) will do. If you use a silicone mold, then you do not need to smear it with oil. But it is better to lubricate metal, ceramic or glass dishes with butter so that the baking does not burn. Put the pie in a preheated 180 ° C oven and bake for 30-40 minutes until a dry match. If the top is browned, and the cake is not ready inside, cover the mold with foil.

12. Step 11:

    

    Cool the finished cake on the grill, sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired and serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!