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Cinnamon Tea Cake
 
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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 5 Minutes
Ready In: 20 Minutes
Servings: 8
Another recipe from ''Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons: Australian Family''. Original Source: Miss Elsie Burrows, Orange - The Orange Recipe Gift Book, compiled by the ladies of Orange District Hospital Auxiliary and their friends. (1930s) Another old time favourite than my Nan used to bake.
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 dash vanilla essence
1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon coconut
butter
Directions:
1. Beat 1 tablespoon of butter with the cup sugar, add well-beaten egg, cup milk, and a little vanilla essence. Stir in plain flour with the baking powder. Bake in a well-buttered sandwich tin, about 20 minutes, in a moderate oven. See Note *
2. Topping Directions: Mix the cinnamon, sugar and desiccated cocoanut.
3. When cake is cooked, turn out, and while hot spread with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon mixture on top.
4. Note: *Moderate oven: 180°C or 170°C fan-forced.
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