London Fog Pound Cake

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What you’ll need…

1 cup butter (softened)

1 1/2 cups white sugar

5 eggs

2 TSP vanilla extract

1/3 cup milk

1 lemon (zest and juice)

1 TBSP earl grey tea (finely crushed)

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 TSP salt

Well, leave it to me to try putting tea into just about everything…I’ve put it in soup and on fish before, so why not try it in a cake, right? On a mildly unrelated note, my iPhone (4!) took this photo. How crazy is that? Oh technology, you’ll never be as delicious as this pound cake, but you’re pretty damn cool.

I baked several batches of mini pound cakes for the Calgary Food Blogger Bake Sale that just happened this past weekend at Casel Marché. Due to my forceful salesperson technics, I sold them all! Score!

*Note: Since I am not much of a baker, I used this recipe from Canadian Living as a guideline.

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