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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook best victorian tea cakes using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
- Prepare 3/4 Cup shortening (Crisco Butter Flavor is great!!)
- Take 1 Cup sugar
- Get 1 large egg
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Take 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- Get 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- Make ready 2 1/4 C flour
- Prepare 1/2 C buttermilk (will describe how to make your own below, super easy)
- Prepare Buttermilk
- Make ready 1/2 cup milk
- Take 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- Prepare Optional Glaze
- Prepare 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
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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