Earl Grey Saturday
A friend bought me an earl grey cupcake once and it tasted so good that I decided to try making it myself. I took a recipe for muffins
online and tweaked it a little. Tried and tested, the earl grey muffins smell & taste like milk tea and they are SO EASY to make!
Makes 12
120g softened unsalted butter
220g fine sugar
2 eggs
220g plain flour
2tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
Pinch of nutmeg/cinnamon (or neither if you prefer)
1tsp vanilla extract
120ml warm milk
1teabag earl grey tea leaves
100g chopped walnuts
Mix flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in a bowl and set aside.
Combine milk, vanilla and the tea leaves in a separate bowl.
Cream the butter and sugar until the mixture turns pale. Add eggs in, one at a time.
Stir in 1/3 of the flour mix.
Once it has blended in properly, add in half of the milk mix. Continue this, alternating the flour and milk, ending it with the last third of the flour mix.
Stir in the walnuts.
Spoon mixture into cupcake paper and pop them into the oven at 180°C for about 15 minutes. Stick a toothpick in the middle of one muffin and take it out. If the toothpick comes out clean, the muffins are ready.
