Bara Brith - Welsh Tea Loaf

This tea loaf tastes seriously amazing and is most probably the easiest, cheapest cake recipe you will ever find. It is made without eggs, butter or milk so that means no expensive dairy products.

Every time I make this Bara Brith it reminds me of holidays to Wales where you can find it everywhere.

The other great thing about this recipe is that it is done in cups, we don't have scales so it makes baking much easier. If you don't have cup measures - you should get some - you can just use a normal sized mug as they are only a tiny bit bigger but it doesn't matter because you'll just end up with a bit more mixture. You could even use pint glasses if you really wanted.

The best part of this recipe is making a cup of tea and then adding it to the cake. How many other recipes can you say ask you to do this. It feels strange but this is the part that means you don't need butter or milk.

You will need:

• 2 cups of self-raising flour
• 1 cup of caster
• 1 cup of sultanas, you can use raisins if you want but sultanas are the best!
• 1 cup of strong tea, use any tea you want, experiment!

Method:

• Make a cup of tea and leave to cool down for a bit whilst you mix the other ingredients.
• Mix the rest of the ingredients together then pour in the cup of tea - it doesn't matter if it isn't completely cool - and stir it in.
• Bake in a loaf tin - or a cake tin if you don't have one - for an hour at 180.

Serve in slices with lashings of butter. Like most things its loveliest warm from the oven.