Best Victorian Tea Cakes
Best Victorian Tea Cakes

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, best victorian tea cakes. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Best Victorian Tea Cakes is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Best Victorian Tea Cakes is something that I have loved my whole life.

Cream together the shortening and sugar until smooth, beat in the egg. So much work and detail in this cake. There's wedding cakes, then there's WEDDING cakes.

To begin with this recipe, we have to 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:
  1. Take 3/4 Cup shortening (Crisco Butter Flavor is great!!)
  2. Get 1 Cup sugar
  3. Make ready 1 large egg
  4. Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
  5. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  6. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt
  7. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  8. Take 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
  9. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  10. Take 2 1/4 C flour
  11. Prepare 1/2 C buttermilk (will describe how to make your own below, super easy)
  12. Get Buttermilk
  13. Prepare 1/2 cup milk
  14. Get 2 teaspoons white vinegar
  15. Make ready Optional Glaze
  16. Take 3 C confectioners sugar
  17. Prepare 3 tablespoons (and maybe a touch more) milk..you want a loose but not watery mixture
  18. Prepare 1 teaspoon lemon extract

In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; stir into the creamed mixture. Tips On Making The Best Old Fashioned Tea Cakes.

Steps to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
  1. 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
  2. Cream together the shortening and sugar until smooth, beat in the egg
  3. 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
  4. Now add half the buttermilk, mix in, then add the remaining buttermilk
  5. Now mix in the flour 1 cup at a time for a smooth dough…the dough will be light and fluffy
  6. Using the scoop, place the cakes 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet (dough will spread)
  7. Bake for 10-12 minutes
  8. Remove from oven and cool for 3 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to a rack or plate to cool completely
  9. Let the cakes cool to touch before glazing -also glazing is optional, these are great without the glaze too!
  10. Enjoy! ❤️❤️

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. 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.

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