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Tea cake cookie recipe

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My Nanny's southern old fashioned tea cakes are part of every food memory from my childhood. Like sweet biscuits, they are part cake, part cookie!

The Best Old Fashioned Tea Cakes Recipe

With some basic ingredients that you have in your pantry, you can make a batch of Old Fashioned Southern Tea Cakes. I bet you can't eat just one.

Tea Cakes

5 · 20 minutes · I’ve baked many batches of cookies through the years, but family and friends tell me these southern treats are the best. The simple buttery flavor appeals to all.—Doris McGough, Dothan, AL

Ingredients

Refrigerated
  • 3 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
  • 3 cups All-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 1/2 cups Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
  • 1 cup Butter
Black Folks Southern Tea Cake Recipe - The Soul Food Pot

32 · 22 minutes · What are Black folks tea cakes?An African American Southern dessert, Black folks tea cake is a sweet little biscuit. Light, airy, and sometimes compared to soda bread or pound cake. Tea cakes are a traditional African American treat that dates back to the 1600s.

Ingredients

Produce
  • 1 tsp Lemon, zest
Refrigerated
  • 1 Egg
Canned Goods
  • 1/2 cup Evaporated milk
Condiments
  • 4 tbsp Lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp Mayonnaise
Baking & Spices
  • 4 cups All-purpose flour
  • 4 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 cup Brown sugar, light
  • 1/4 tsp Nutmeg, ground
  • 2 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Sugar, granulated
  • 1/2 tbsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
  • 1/2 cup Butter, unsalted & softened
  • 1/4 cup Sour cream
Old Fashioned Tea Cake Cookies are a favorite here in the south. They are made with just a few simple ingredients you probably have in your pantry–sugar, butter, eggs, oil, vanilla, flour and some odds and ends So easy! #desserts #teacakes #teacakecookies #homemadecookies #cookies #homeatcedarspringsfarm

14 · 30 minutes · Old Fashioned Tea Cake Cookies are a favorite here in the south. They are made with just a few simple ingredients you probably have in your pantry–sugar, butter, eggs, oil, vanilla, flour and some odds and ends So easy! #desserts #teacakes #teacakecookies #homemadecookies #cookies #homeatcedarspringsfarm

Ingredients

Refrigerated
  • 2 Eggs
Baking & Spices
  • 4 1/2 cups All purpose flour
  • 2 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 tsp Baking soda
  • 2 tsp Cream of tartar
  • 1 cup Powdered sugar
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
Oils & Vinegars
  • 1 cup Oil
Dairy
  • 2 sticks Butter
Southern Tea Cakes are perfect for afternoon coffee or tea. This old-fashioned recipe is similar to a sugar cookie and makes an easy snack.

25 · 27 minutes · Southern Tea Cakes are perfect for afternoon coffee or tea. This old-fashioned recipe is similar to a sugar cookie and makes an easy snack.

Ingredients

Refrigerated
  • 2 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
  • 3 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking soda
  • 1 1/4 cups Granulated sugar
  • 1 Granulated sugar
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
  • 1 cup Butter
  • 3 tbsp Buttermilk
Grandma's Old Fashioned Tea Cakes

138 · 55 minutes · These cut-out tea cakes are made with rich sugar cookie dough that's flavored with vanilla and nutmeg. Everyone will love their buttery flavor!

Ingredients

Refrigerated
  • 2 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
  • 3 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp Nutmeg, ground
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 1 3/4 cups White sugar
Dairy
  • 1 cup Butter
Vanilla Tea Cake Cookies are a simple buttery, soft vanilla tea cookie perfect for afternoon tea. Much like Scottish Shortbread, the ingredients are simple, but the texture and vanilla flavors are unforgettable. #cookies #afternoontea #tea #christmascookies #31Daily

30 · 20 minutes · Vanilla Tea Cake Cookies are a simple buttery, soft vanilla tea cookie perfect for afternoon tea. Much like Scottish Shortbread, the ingredients are simple, but the texture and vanilla flavors are deliciously unforgettable.

Ingredients

Refrigerated
  • 1 Egg
Baking & Spices
  • 2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking soda
  • 1 1/2 tsp Cream of tartar
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 1/2 cups Sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
  • 1 cup Butter
You won't need Paula Deen after you dry my delicious and butter filled Southern Tea Cakes: the classic cakey cookie recipe of the South.

The best (and easiest) Southern Tea Cakes Recipe (or tea cake cookies recipe) is here! You will feel like you are right in the South after making and serving these, not to mention eating them.

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Perfectly buttery, rich, soft and flavorful with the perfect texture, this Southern Tea Cakes Recipe (or tea cake cookies recipe) is the BEST one online!! #oldfashionedteacakes #southerncooking #grandbabycakes