Laurielee
10-20-2003, 02:20 PM
I posted this under the review but decided to give it its own thread to find out the people who made this did
I made this last night for my supper club and ran into a few problems, but it still turned out real good.
okay, the cake called for 6TBSP tea and 2/3 cu water. I used 23 tea bags to get the 6 TBSP of tea. And then 2/3 cup wasnt even close to getting the tea wet to stee. Ended up putting 2 C of water to make the steep the tea. My thought was the liquid should be a lille less than 2/3 cup since the tea itself retains some of the moisture. Well my batter was like water! So I had about an extra 1/3 C cake flour left and added this along with a pinch of baking soda. It was still pretty runny. I cooked ityway, and only cooked it for 20 minutes.
Then When I was making the frosting, it said to steep the 5 TBSP of tea with 2/3 C of water and use 2-3 TSBP of theliquid.
Here is what i think is a mistake in the recipe. In the frosting, they tell you how much liquid tea to use, but dont in the cake. That is why I guessed on how much liquid to use. But why would you need to you 5 Tbsp of tea for only 2 TBSP of liquid tea.
As for the frosting, it was way to runny and I added about 1/2 more powdered sugar, it was still thin but I used it anyway
Laurie
I made this last night for my supper club and ran into a few problems, but it still turned out real good.
okay, the cake called for 6TBSP tea and 2/3 cu water. I used 23 tea bags to get the 6 TBSP of tea. And then 2/3 cup wasnt even close to getting the tea wet to stee. Ended up putting 2 C of water to make the steep the tea. My thought was the liquid should be a lille less than 2/3 cup since the tea itself retains some of the moisture. Well my batter was like water! So I had about an extra 1/3 C cake flour left and added this along with a pinch of baking soda. It was still pretty runny. I cooked ityway, and only cooked it for 20 minutes.
Then When I was making the frosting, it said to steep the 5 TBSP of tea with 2/3 C of water and use 2-3 TSBP of theliquid.
Here is what i think is a mistake in the recipe. In the frosting, they tell you how much liquid tea to use, but dont in the cake. That is why I guessed on how much liquid to use. But why would you need to you 5 Tbsp of tea for only 2 TBSP of liquid tea.
As for the frosting, it was way to runny and I added about 1/2 more powdered sugar, it was still thin but I used it anyway
Laurie