Love a good Chai Latte? How about a delicious baked version? This moist, soft crumb Chai Latte Yogurt Tea Cake is the perfect answer.
I love tea cakes. So moist, so soft and perfect with tea… or in my case… coffee. I love a good basic recipe, and then I love to give it some flavor or change it up a bit. I did that with this one.
It’s Secret Recipe Club time yet… again. Yes, so soon. We’ve had an orphan in group A and I’m back again with another quick recipe. This time I am creating from An Italian in the Midwest. I love Pola’s blog, we met on Triberr and she has such great recipes on her blog. She also just got her PhD…so really she’s Dr. Pola 😉 Congratulations Dr!
Since this was supposed to be a quick recipe, I wasn’t anticipating any changes being made. And I only made a few minor tweaks. I was determined to make whatever recipe I chose from her blog, with what I had on hand.
I was out of the milk called for in the original recipe, so I substituted with some homemade chai tea latte I had whipped up last night. (pretty much just chai tea mixed with coconut milk). I also took her advice and went for vegetable oil instead of olive oil.
I did not have regular yogurt on hand, which I imagined is what the recipe wanted, but I always have greek yogurt on hand, so I substituted that instead.
This was wonderful with a cup of coffee.
Recipe for Chai Latte Yogurt Cake
Chai Latte Yogurt Tea Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cups greek yogurt
- 3 cups flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cups chai latte or milk
- 1 cups vegetable oil
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 eggs
- powdered sugar if desired
Instructions
- Using a mixer, blend together the flour, sugar, baking powder, yogurt, chai latte (or milk), vegetable oil and salt.
- While mixing, add the eggs, one by one and blend until incorporated.
- I greased a loaf pan (but for the future I will make this in a smaller cake pan because it took a lot longer to cook the center) and baked at 390 degrees for 1 hour. With a smaller cake pan, I would think about 45 minutes.
- Dust with powdered sugar, if desired.
Yum! I love yogurt cake. And the chai sounds like a wonderful addition to it.
Me too! Thank you! The chai was definitely an added bonus to an already delicious cake!
Thanks for adopting me!! Love how you switched out milk with chai latte! Must give it a great taste!
You are definitely welcome Pola… I wasn’t leaving you unattended 😉 You have a fabulous recipe index, it was hard to choose. The chai was definitely wonderful – but I have a feeling the cake itself is so awesome the flavor just added a little something 😉 Thank you!
Love the chai swap – delish!
Thanks so much Aly!
That was nice of you to take the orphan and I think you make a great pick. This is the kind of cake I like to eat with a cup of tea or milk.
The cake was perfect with coffee and tea (both I had), and my kids loved it with tall glasses of milk – a couple had honey on the cake. So good! Thank you!
It looks delicious Nicole, thank you for being such an awesome member and adopting our orphan. 🙂
Well, you’re certainly welcome sweet friend. And thank you! For ALL you do!
What a wonderful cake you made, and to adopt an orphan blog on such short notice!
I am saying hello from Group D, hope you had fun making TWO recipes in a single event! 😉
I love adopting orphans, often my teens get a surprise snack when they get home and they love it. 🙂 Thank you so much and I did!
I love the taste of chai spices. That cake must have been delish.
It turned out fabulous… I was happy with the result with the chai latte in it… wasn’t sure. It worked! Thank you!
yogurt cake is so good!! love this version 🙂
Chai- what a fun twist! Have you ever tried the mix from Trader Joe’s… SO GOOD! I might have to try this for mother’s day…
Wow, pretty smart to use the chai latte instead of milk. I bet that gave it a lovely flavor. Great job on short notice, Nicole!
I love tea cakes too – they’re so underrated but always perfect to have lying around for when the mood for cake strikes (which is often!). I love that you used chai latte to flavour these. Your cake looks fabulous, Nicole!
You’ve left me drooling. How I love Chai. Until seeing this it has never occurred to me one could use it as a cake flavoring. This is excellent!
Oooo! I love the addition of chai latte here!! How creative and I bet it tasted amazing. I want to make this for sure. I adore chai lattes and tea cakes so this is just perfect.
i made this this past weekend. it tastes nice. a bit heavy but i had to sub my baking powder for baking soda and 1/2 cup of left over yougurt. and i only used 2/3 cup of sugar. and 1/2 cup of oil and 1/2 cup of milk because I used at least 1 1/2 cup of chai tea yougurt.. The amount was 4 small mini loaves baked at 350*f for an hour