Black Tea With Honey Buttercream Cake
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Photo: Kristin Rosenau
Kristin Rosenau of the dessert blog Pastry Affair brings us today’s cake. In graduate school, Rosenau studied to be an astroparticle physicist and spent many years delving into complex equations and problem sets. As her creative outlet, she started a sweets blog, at one point even sampling the life of a baker at a patisserie…only to eventually realize that the dream was nothing like the reality.
Returning to her first love, she now works as a high school science teacher in North Dakota, but every weekend you’ll find her in the kitchen baking delicious, beautiful desserts.
"Black Tea Cake with Honey Buttercream is a cup of tea turned into a slice of cake" Rosenau writes on her site. For her recipe, she infused hot milk with hot tea, creamed sugar, butter and eggs together, folded in the dry ingredients, and whisked that tea-spiked milk into the batter. While the cake bakes, she makes a simple buttercream frosting laced with honey, swaddling the cake layers with it and piping beautiful rosettes on top. As Rosenau writes, "Tea Lovers, this cake is just for you.”
Doesn’t that sound like just the stuff for tea time?
Get the recipe: Black Tea Cake With Honey Buttercream
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