Cinnamon Tea Cake
Description: Another recipe from ''Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons: Australian Family''. Original Source: Miss Elsie Burrows, Orange - The Orange Recipe Gift Book, compiled by the ladies of Orange District Hospital Auxiliary and their friends. (1930s) Another old time favourite than my Nan used to bake.
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 dash vanilla essence
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon coconut
- butter
Steps:
- Beat 1 tablespoon of butter with the cup sugar, add well-beaten egg, cup milk, and a little vanilla essence. Stir in plain flour with the baking powder. Bake in a well-buttered sandwich tin, about 20 minutes, in a moderate oven. See Note *
- Topping Directions: Mix the cinnamon, sugar and desiccated cocoanut.
- When cake is cooked, turn out, and while hot spread with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon mixture on top.
- Note: *Moderate oven: 180°C or 170°C fan-forced.
