Cold tea will work fine, i have made a rosemary Conley fruit cake called 'Kims cake' a no fat cake mixed fruit, soaked in cold tea overnight if poss, sugar and flour and eggs. Is YUM. Havent made it since being on SW so not sure what the syns would be.
KIMS CAKE
Per serving 150 kcal/0.6g fat
1 SERVING = ½ INCH SLICE/2.5 CM SLICE
400g (1lb) dried mixed fruit
1 mug hot black tea
75g (3oz) sugar
1 mug self raising flour
1 mug wholemeal flour
1 egg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Soak the dried fruit overnight in the tea. The next day mix all the ingredients including the tea together and place in a 2lb loaf tin.
Bake for 2 hours at 160C, 325F, Gas Mark 3.
To make into a birthday type fruit cake, add some cherries to the dried fruit.
This cake can be frozen