Baking Tea Cakes Recipe
Stir in flour vanilla extract baking powder and baking soda until dough is well mixed.
Baking tea cakes recipe. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. If your dough is too sticky to handle then roll it in between parchment paper. Bake at 375 for 7 8 minutes or until. In a large bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
These teacakes fill our kitchens with the most delicious smell and taste just as good. They re perfect for afternoon tea or to enjoy with a glass of lemonade. A great recipe for beginners we like ours toasted and smothered in butter and jam. Lucy a grandma figure used to baby sit me and she made tea cakes that looked and tasted just like these.
Gradually add to the creamed mixture the dough will be soft. Apart onto greased baking sheets. Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 1 2 in. Warm the milk with the butter in a pan until the butter has melted then add 100ml water to cool the mixture to room temp.
Tips on making the best old fashioned tea cakes. In a bowl cream together shortening and sugar. I ve tried baking with tea before but i couldn t get the tea flavor to come through strongly enough. This recipe took me back to when i was a little girl growing up in forrest city arkansas.
Drop spoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheet. I ve never had to add any extra flour to this recipe. I am almost 50 years old and i ve tried many tea cake recipes trying to recapture the taste and texture of ms. For fans of savoury bakes try our wholemeal bagels made with allinson s wholemeal dough perfect for breakfast.
This doesn t release the tea flavor and people don t like finding leaf bits in their cupcakes. Made in just six steps with allinson s sweet dough. Rose is making old fashion tea cakes a recipe we have had in the family since she was a lit. Welcome grubbers tonight is friday night with ms.
Tip the flour yeast sugar spice and 1 tsp salt into a bowl making sure the yeast is on the other side of the bowl to the salt. Even though they re called cakes tea cakes are old fashioned cookies made with with butter sugar eggs flour and vanilla. Apart onto greased baking sheets bake at 350 for 15 20 minutes. Combine the flour baking powder and salt.
Add milk and vanilla. Adding extra flour for rolling can result in a drier cracked tea cake and we want a smooth pretty tender fluffy picture perfect tea. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 in.