EARL GREY TEACUPCAKES Recipe ==========

2 Earl Grey tea bags
1/4 cup boiling water
1/3 cup milk
100g of sunflower oil (or melted butter)
2 eggs
160g white sugar
190g self-raising flour, sifted
1 teaspoon of baking powder, sifted with the flour

Preheat oven to 180C (my oven was a bit hot--try 170C next time?). Oil-spray a 6-fer muffin pan.

Empty the tea leaves from the tea bags into a cup and add the boiling water. Set aside for 3 minutes. Stir in the milk and then transfer to a large bowl. Combine and wisk the wet ingredients, eggs, and sugar together well, making sure any sugar isn't missed.

Add about 25% of the flour and whisk in until smooth. Repeat until all the flour is done. Then beat until the mixture is pale and creamy and looks slightly aerated and bubbly from the baking powder starting to activate.

Spoon the batter into the muffin tray. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until the knife-test comes out clean. Would be best to rotate 180 degrees at the 10 minute point, but be careful not to shock the batter causing it to collapse.

Turn off the oven, open the oven door, leave for 10 minutes, then bring it out to cool further on a wire rack or the like.