Raspberry Cake with Earl Grey Frosting is a cake packed with fresh raspberries and covered in a delicious Earl grey tea infused buttercream frosting.
This Raspberry Cake is dreamy. Not only is it so flavorful it will melt in your mouth, it’s also gorgeous, especially when paired with Earl Grey Buttercream Frosting. If frosting infused with tea isn’t your thing, you might prefer our Raspberry Cake with Chocolate Frosting, which is every bit as delicious!
Perfect for Valentine’s Day or a birthday, everyone will be surprised by the vivid color when you cut into this cake.
Can I add fruit to a cake mix?
That’s precisely what we’ve done with both this raspberry cake and our Simply Delicious Strawberry cake. Adding fruit makes for a moister cake, and really packs in the flavor!
Both of these cakes use a white cake mix, but a yellow cake mix can be substituted in a pinch.
What’s the purpose of adding Jello to a cake recipe?
Adding in a flavored gelatin, such as Jello, to a cake recipe serves several purposes. First off, it will add flavor– however, it does also add sugar, so you will get a bit sweeter cake. Second, the cake will be slightly more dense because of the addition of gelatin.
Raspberry Cake with Earl Grey Frosting
Raspberry Cake with Earl Grey Frosting is a cake packed with fresh raspberries and covered in a delicious Earl grey tea infused buttercream frosting.
Ingredients
- 12 oz fresh or frozen raspberries, thawed
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 white cake mix
- 3 oz box of raspberry gelatin
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 round 9" cake pans and line with greased parchment paper (or flour them). Set aside.
- Puree raspberries with water in a blender.
- In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, combine cake mix and gelatin. Stir in raspberries, eggs, water, and oil. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.
- Pour into pans and bake in the center of oven for 20-23 minutes, or until edges are set and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pans for 15 minutes, then cool completely on wire rack before frosting.
Notes
If you are using frozen raspberries, I recommend allowing the raspberries to come to room temperature, in order to end up with best results.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1 sliceAmount Per Serving: Calories: 346Total Fat: 20gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 83mgSodium: 110mgCarbohydrates: 38gFiber: 3gSugar: 31gProtein: 5g
Earl Grey Buttercream Frosting
A flavorful buttercream frosting with the addition of Earl Grey. This frosting will be your new favorite!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup half & half
- 1-2 Earl grey tea bags**
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Heat half & half in a microwave safe mug for 30 seconds - 1 minutes. It will boil, so use a deep mug and watch it closely.
- Place tea bag in half & half to steep, and set aside.
- Cream butter in a stand mixer or a large bowl using a hand mixer.
- Slowly add powdered sugar mixture to butter. Scrape sides as needed.
- Remove tea bag from half & half, and squeeze as much of the liquid out of the tea bag into the half & half.
- Add half & half to butter & powdered sugar mixture. Add vanilla. Stir to combine.
- If buttercream is too thin, add more powdered sugar until desired consistency is reached.
Notes
When steeping the tea bag in the half & half, you may notice some curdling. This is normal, and will not be noticeable in the finished frosting.
**For a mild-flavored cake, 1 tea bag will do. For a more intensely flavored cake (such as the Raspberry Cake), you'll want to use 2 tea bags.
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Oh, you had me at Earl grey frosting. This cake looks amazing!!!! Like so good! I wanna make now! 🙂 And pretty!!
That’s a beautiful cake! It looks moist and tasty! I want to try it out!
I love the idea of bergamot infused frosting. I’ll bet it’s a great flavor combined with the raspberry. I’m intrigued by the idea of adding gelatin to a cake recipe.
Hmmm Earl Grey frosting. That sounds quite unique – especially paired with the raspberry cake.
Raspberry is my favorite fruit. I would love to bake this cake for the family!
I’ve never heard of or tasted Earl grey tea infused buttercream frosting. I am so eager to try this especially with it being a raspberry cake. Yum!
This cake looks beautiful and delicious! I would love to make this for us to enjoy this Valentines.
That cake sure does look good. I have not tried a raspberry cake before. I do love raspberries though. I’m looking forward to trying this.
That cake looks absolutely amazing. My SIL made a raspberry cake last Christmas but with a different frosting. I will have to try yours. It’s making me drool!
This Raspberry Cake with Earl Grey Frosting is making me drool! I really love raspberry and having this on a cake is heaven!
I haven’t tried a raspberry cake before, what an excellent idea! I will be trying your raspberry cake with earl grey frosting since both are very new ideas to me. I can’t wait to see if we love it
It looks so elegant! I haven’t tried tea-infused frosting before, but my mom loves it. I might try and make this for her birthday.
This sounds like a pretty amazing combination. I can’t wait to give this recipe a try. I know my family is going to love it.
Oh how fun! I haven’t made a cake with these flavors before. It’s so pretty and I love the Jello trick!
Ooo I know I’d love this cake! It looks amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever had earl grey frosting, so I’m intrigued.
My family would love this. I love finding ways to spruce up a cake mix. It just makes things so easy and yet still special.
i love raspberry in cake but never thought of making such a unique frosting before- ill have to give this a try this weekend
The cake looks amazing but the frosting even better. It would be great to make this frosting for any cake so i will try to save this for all my cakes.