Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, best victorian tea cakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cream together the shortening and sugar until smooth, beat in the egg. These tea cakes are similar to something that I used to make at a country club that I used to work for before our girls came along. The cake is a light airy sponge cake filled with your filling of choice like your favorite jam, pastry cream, pastry cream topped with fresh fruit, or even chocolate ganache.
Best Victorian Tea Cakes is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Best Victorian Tea Cakes is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook best victorian tea cakes using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
- Get 3/4 Cup shortening (Crisco Butter Flavor is great!!)
- Get 1 Cup sugar
- Take 1 large egg
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Get 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- Get 2 1/4 C flour
- Prepare 1/2 C buttermilk (will describe how to make your own below, super easy)
- Take Buttermilk
- Take 1/2 cup milk
- Take 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- Get Optional Glaze
- Get 3 C confectioners sugar
- Prepare 3 tablespoons (and maybe a touch more) milk..you want a loose but not watery mixture
- Take 1 teaspoon lemon extract
If your dough is too sticky to handle then roll it in between parchment paper. I've never had to add any extra flour to this recipe. Adding extra flour for rolling can result in a drier, cracked tea cake and we want a smooth, pretty, tender, fluffy, picture-perfect tea. Tips for the best Southern Tea Cakes.
Instructions to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
- Buttermilk: For this recipe, use 1/2 C of either 2% or whole milk and add 2 teaspoons of white vinegar..stir well and let sit for 5 minutes
- Cream together the shortening and sugar until smooth, beat in the egg
- At this point it's better to add the spices so they mix well…so add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, vanilla and lemon extract and mix well
- Now add half the buttermilk, mix in, then add the remaining buttermilk
- Now mix in the flour 1 cup at a time for a smooth dough…the dough will be light and fluffy
- Using the scoop, place the cakes 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet (dough will spread)
- Bake for 10-12 minutes
- Remove from oven and cool for 3 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to a rack or plate to cool completely
- Let the cakes cool to touch before glazing -also glazing is optional, these are great without the glaze too!
- Enjoy! ❤️❤️
Don't add extra flour when you start rolling out the cookies. Just have a lightly floured surface and sprinkle a little flour on top so you can roll them out. S. tea cakes can be cookies or small cakes. And in Sweden it is a sweetened wheat soda bread served with butter, jam and often cheese. In India and Australia, a teacake is more like a sponge cake.
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