Discover Our Easy Fruit-Filled Tea Cake Recipe For Your Bakery
If you’re a bakery or cafe owner, have you thought about adding the classic tea cake to your menu? Well, we make baking tea cakes quick and easy with our quality dough bases.
Read on to discover how we make baking a tea cake completely fool-proof. You don’t even need a tea cake recipe, as we have already made the dough from scratch. You just bake it fresh!
What is a Tea Cake?
Depending on where in the world you live, the term tea cake can mean everything from cookies to a slice of cinnamon-spiced butter cake. In Australia, a tea cake is typically a butter cake made with flour, eggs, butter and sugar. The most common variation is a cinnamon tea cake with the addition of ground cinnamon.
But today we’re placing the spotlight on a more traditional tea cake recipe and how you can make it with minimal effort. Your customers will simply love them.
The solution? Suprima’s versatile fruit-filled bun dough. It saves your bakery time and money while still allowing you to customise till your heart’s content.
Why not mix it up and bake a creative apple cinnamon tea cake?
How to Make a Tea Cake
A classic tea cake recipe includes butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, flour and milk. The topping can range from classic brown cinnamon and butter glaze to cream and jam. They typically bake for 20-30 minutes and are best served on the day they are baked.
How do you offer this classic cake en masse to your customers?
If you’re a bakery or cafe owner, you may find it a challenge to produce tea cakes at scale. We know the challenges you face, which include high labour costs, expensive ingredients, and finding quality staff.
Save time, money and energy by using Suprima’s frozen dough to easily bake fruit-filled tea cakes at scale. Here’s all you need to do:
- Prepare trays
- Thaw the dough
- Mould dough balls into a round cake tin
- Proof the tea cake dough
- Bake for 20 minutes
- Cool and finish
To finish the fruit-filled tea cake in a classic way, add a bun wash and finish with fresh cream and jam.
Creative Variations
Now that you know how to make a classic fruit-filled tea cake, why not unleash your creativity and offer your customers these delicious and unique creative variations? There are unlimited possibilities when baking with our versatile dough bases.
- Apple tea cake – add dried apple to the dough balls before baking OR drizzle with an apple sauce glaze and garnish with dried apple pieces
- Cinnamon tea cake – top with a brown sugar and cinnamon sauce
- Lemon tea cake – add lemon zest to the dough balls before baking. Garnish with candied lemon slices and a lemon glaze.
- Orange tea cake – add lemon zest to the dough balls before baking. Garnish with candied orange pieces and an orange glaze.
- Chocolate tea cake – there are a lot of ways you can customise our fruit-filled dough balls to bake up a decadent chocolate tea cake. You can add chocolate chips to the dough balls before baking. When finishing, you can prepare a chocolate ganache. Also consider a variety of different garnishes, such as a chocolate garnish, chocolate lace, chocolate shavings or flakes.
- You can also make cream buns with the same versatile dough base.
What about a hot cross bun tea cake?
Tea cakes are very similar in their composition to a hot cross bun, in that they are both sweet buns with dried fruits.
The good news is that you can easily make different products from the same versatile dough base.
Our fruit-filled bun dough is the dough used to bake fruit filled hot cross buns!
So, if you want to get creative at easter time, why not bake up a hot cross bun tea cake that your customers will love! Garnish with cute chocolate easter eggs and you’ll have taste buds tingling and customers placing orders in advance for this Easter inspiration.
A Versatile Solution
The same dough base that you use to bake cream buns is the same dough base used to make fruit filled hot cross buns.
> Discover Suprima’s original hot cross bun frozen dough here.
