Recipe: Appetizing Tea Cake Cookies

Recipe: Appetizing Tea Cake Cookies Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tea Cake Cookies. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. This recipe took me back to when I was a little girl growing up in Forrest City, Arkansas.

Stir in flour, vanilla extract, baking powder, and baking soda until dough is well mixed.

This is a simple tea cake recipe with butter, eggs, and other ingredients.

Flatten the cookies with a glass dipped in sugar or vanilla sugar if you wish.

You can have Tea Cake Cookies using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tea Cake Cookies

1. You need 3 cup of All-purpose Flour.

2. It’s 1 1/2 cup of Sugar.

3. You need 1 pinch of of Salt.

4. It’s 2 of Eggs.

5. You need 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.

6. It’s 2 tsp of Baking powder.

7. It’s 1 cup of Butter, melted.

Try this buttermilk tea cake variation.

In a bowl, cream together shortening and sugar.

Add milk and vanilla; beat well.

A Traditional Southern tea cakes recipe makes simple cookies with more of a cake like taste.

Tea Cake Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375°F..

2. Mix all dry ingredients into a large bowl..

3. Melt butter and mix into dry ingredients. Add vanilla and eggs..

4. Mix dough and kneed with hands until well combined and forms ball of dough. (Add more flour if needed).

5. Roll out onto a flour dusted surface. Cut circles out of dough with small coffee cup or any desired shape of cookie cutter..

6. Place on cookie sheet and bake in preheated oven for 8-12 minutes. Or until slightly brown..

7. Decorate if desired after cooling. Store or serve..

They have been pared-down ingredient list which results in a simple flavor.

The term "tea cake" comes from the fact that the cookie lends itself to being paired with a cup of hot tea.

Tea cakes are buttery and slightly soft, not as sweet as a sugar cookie and falling somewhere between a cookie and a cake.

They are an old-fashioned Southern favorite!

This recipe is so easy-no mixer required and no chilling dough.