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Easy Spice Cake (Chai Cake)
Easy spice cake recipe (chai cake), homemade with simple ingredients. Soft, moist layer cake that is paired with cream cheese frosting, caramel sauce and pistachios.
👥 8 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 10m⏳ Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 40 min👤 Abeer Rizvi📖 cakewhiz
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- bowl
- mixing bowl
- whisk
- pan
- knife
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Pour warm milk in a deep bowl and add all the tea bags. Let them sit for about ⏱️ 10 minutes. Then, squeeze out all the milk from the tea bags and discard them. Keep this chai milk aside for now and move on to the next step.
Milk (Warm)1 cupTea bags (Vanilla spiced chai tea flavor)8
2
In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Butter (Unsalted)1 cup
3
Add eggs, one at a time, while continuing to mix.
Eggs (Large)4
4
Add vanilla extract and ground ginger and mix again.
Vanilla extract1 tsp
5
In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and all the spices.
Baking powder2 tspBaking soda1 tsp
6
Dump this dry mixture into the wet mixture. Mix everything together while adding the chai milk until just combined. The batter will be thick and there might be some lumps but don't over mix!
Milk (Warm)1 cup
7
Pour this batter into two 8x2 greased/floured round cake pans.
8
Bake at 350 degrees F for about ⏱️ 40 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
9
Allow the cakes to cool down completely.
10
Then, trim the edges and tops of each cake with a sharp knife.
11
Place one cake on a cake stand and frost the top with frosting. I used a piping bag with Tip #1M.
12
Spread some chopped pistachios and drizzle some caramel sauce.
13
Then, place the other cake on top of this frosting layer.
14
Pour some caramel sauce around the edges of the cake only.
15
Finally, frost the top of this cake with frosting and toss some more pistachios. Slice and enjoy!
Nutrition Facts
calories
867 kcal
fat Content
39 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
2 g
sugar Content
75 g
sodium Content
409 mg
protein Content
9 g
cholesterol Content
146 mg
carbohydrate Content
123 g
saturated Fat Content
18 g
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