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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have best victorian tea cakes using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
- Take 3/4 Cup shortening (Crisco Butter Flavor is great!!)
- Prepare 1 Cup sugar
- Take 1 large egg
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- Get 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
- Prepare 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- Get Optional Glaze
- Prepare 3 C confectioners sugar
- Make ready 3 tablespoons (and maybe a touch more) milk..you want a loose but not watery mixture
- Make ready 1 teaspoon lemon extract
An afternoon tea or Victorian tea party may be one of the most delightful and informal affairs in the whole social round or it may be an unmitigated bore. Little cakes may be made in small baking-dishes, the smaller the better, and rolled in boiled icing colored and flavored with orange, rose, lemon. Mary Berry's easy Victoria sponge cake recipe is a baking classic and a tasty tea-time treat. The nice thing about these blends is you can resteep this tea two more times and still.
Steps 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! ❤️❤️
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