Percy's Tea Loaf

A fruit loaf infused with Percy's alcoholic ice tea and drizzled with lemon icing

Posted by Cat Morley

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Perfectly halfway in between a drizzle cake and a tea bread, this fruity loaf is soaked with alcoholic ice tea from Percy's Tea and drizzled with a sticky lemon icing.

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You Will Need (11 things)

  • 250 g Dried Fruit
  • 50 g Sugar
  • Percy's Tea Black Alcoholic Ice Tea
  • 1 Egg
  • 250 g Plain Flour
  • 3 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 Lemon

  • For the drizzle

  • 100 g Icing Sugar
  • 1 Lemon
  • Water

Steps (11 steps, 45 minutes)

  1. 1

    Place the dried fruit in a bowl with the sugar, grate in the zest from an lemon and then squeeze in the juice from the lemon.

  2. 2

    Pour in a bottle of Percy's Tea and leave to soak overnight.

  3. 3

    Whisk in the egg.

  4. 4

    Add the plain flour and baking powder.

  5. 5

    Mix to form a thick dough.

  6. 6

    Place the dough in a greased bread tin.

  7. 7

    Bake at 180'C for 50 minutes until golden.

  8. 8

    Leave to cool before turning out of the tin.

  9. 9

    Place the icing sugar in a bowl and grate in the zest from a lemon.

  10. 10

    Squeeze in the juice and stir to combine. Add a little water if the icing isn't running enough.

  11. 11

    Drizzle the icing over the loaf and serve.