How to Autumn To Try At Home Earl Grey Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

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Earl Grey Chocolate Sour Cream Cake. Here is how you achieve it. Ingredients of Earl Grey Chocolate Sour Cream Cake. Steep the lavender flowers in the earl grey tea while you prepare the rest of the cake.

Pour simmering cream over chocolate-sugar mixture.

Turn out of pan and cool.

This London fog cake consists of three-layers of chocolate cake (the batter uses both freshly brewed coffee and oil, which keeps it extra moist!).

You can have Earl Grey Chocolate Sour Cream Cake using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Earl Grey Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

  1. Prepare of tea bags Earl Grey (or 2 tablespoons loose tea).

  2. It’s of water , hot.

  3. It’s of flour.

  4. Prepare of baking soda.

  5. You need of baking powder.

  6. You need of salt.

  7. Prepare of butter , unsalted , at room temperature.

  8. Prepare of eggs.

  9. You need of sugar granulated.

  10. It’s of chocolate semi-sweet , melted and cooled.

  11. Prepare of sour cream.

  12. You need of sugar Powdered.

It is then filled with an earl grey infused swiss meringue buttercream (YES), and finally topped with a generous layer of homemade salted caramel.

See those little specks in the frosting below?

How to bring out Earl Grey flavour.

I used my vanilla cake recipe as a base and went from there.

Earl Grey Chocolate Sour Cream Cake instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F and grease an 8-cup (or more) bundt pan..

  2. Brew the tea in the hot water for 5 minutes. Remove tea bags (or strain the leaves) and set aside to cool. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt..

  3. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition..

  4. Blend in the melted chocolate. Beat in the dry ingredients on low speed until almost combined, then alternately add the tea and sour cream until combined. Pour into prepared pan..

  5. Bake for 40-50 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out with just a few crumbs attached. Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes. Turn out of the pan and onto a cooling rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners sugar before serving..

I was thinking of ways to bring out the earl grey flavour and infused milk seemed like the best option.

Tips for this Earl Grey Cake: If you don't like Earl Grey tea, you can experiment with other tea flavours.

I used Cream of Earl Grey for this cake.

The Earl Grey syrup is optional (I forgot to add it even though I had it made), but it will enhance the flavour of the cake even more, and will add moisture.

In another heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine sugar & flour and whisk together.