When morning tea calls for something old-fashioned and delicious, this condensed milk teacake is just the thing. Filled with caramel flavours from the brown sugar and condensed milk, and topped with a rich caramel icing, it’s the perfect accompaniment to your mid-morning cuppa.
How to make a condensed milk teacake: key tips
To cream the butter and sugar, make sure that your butter has been softened to room temperature before you start so that the mixture creams easily and evenly until smooth and pale.
Beating in the eggs one at a time ensures the water in the eggs is thoroughly dispersed in the fat from the butter. This helps to create a stable mixture, which is crucial for the texture and rise of the teacake.
Sift the flour into the bowl and add your milk and lemon mixture in 2 batches, gently folding each batch into the mixture until just combined – you don’t want to stir out any of the air bubbles captured in the batter, otherwise your cake won’t rise as nicely.
Cool the cake before topping it with slightly cooled icing so that the icing won’t completely melt and run off in all directions!
Key ingredients in this condensed milk teacake recipe
Sweetened condensed milk adds a wonderful richness, sweetness and moisture to this teacake. It also brings a caramel-like flavour to the cake as well as the delectable icing on top. Using brown sugar and golden syrup enhances that rich caramel flavour in the cake and icing.
Mixing the milk with lemon juice makes a quick buttermilk for extra tang. You can omit this step, if you like, and just add milk to the batter.
Also try these teacake recipes: apple teacake, cinnamon teacake and lemon teacake.
This recipe was originally submitted by Greer Worsley, a member of the Australia’s Best Recipe community. Introduction and additional recipe notes by Natasha Shaw.