My cycling keeps you going spicecake recipe...

[papaver]

I'm always looking for great recipes especially for snacks you can take with you on cycling trips. Here is one I tried yesterday and it's really yummy.

1 teabag of earl grey or lapsang souchong
175 g dried prunes (finely chopped)
125 g sultanas
225 g self raising flower
1 tea spoon speculoos spices (that's a mix of cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, nutmeg and white pepper) or use a similar mix or just plain cinnamon (works a charm).
150 g sugar (white) + 1 tablespoon extra
1 egg slightly beaten
milk (optional)
salt

Put the prunes and sultanas in a bowl. Add 250 ml of boiling water together with the teabag. After 5 minutes remove the teabag. Put the bowl aside and let it rest for about 5 hours.

Take a large bowl and sift the flower together with the spice mix. Add a pinch of salt. Then add the sugar, the fruit and the egg. When the mixture is not liquid enough, you can add some milk. The dough is good when it falls easily of the spoon.

Put some baking paper in a cake form, pour in the dough and let it bake for 45 – 60 minutes in a preheated oven (180 °C). Use a knitting needle or a knife to see when it’s ready. When it comes out clean it’s ready.

Sorry for the Dunglish here... but it makes it even more exotic.

[cylegoddess]

yum!!!

[malkin]

I've been dreaming about those fruits plumped in Earl Grey tea for weeks now!

[papaver]

I've been dreaming about those fruits plumped in Earl Grey tea for weeks now!

believe me, it's delish... next time i make it, i'll take some pics.

[cylegoddess]

I cant have earl grey, so I am trying it with dandelion chai!

[malkin]

Just came out of the oven.

I just stole the fruit in Earl Grey tea and cardamom and used a cake recipe from Pie in the Sky, because I bet that papaver lives somewhere near sea level where there is lots of nice air floating around, and I'm at 5000 ft where baked goods misbehave.