Recipe: Delicious Tea Cake Cookies

Tea Cake Cookies. 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.

There's no feeling quite as blissful as your first bite of one of these cookies. Whether you call them Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies or snowballs, there's no denying that they're essential to bake during the Christmas season. A shortbread-like dough, studded with chopped nuts, bakes up to a texture that's beautifully sandy and tender, never dry or crumbling to bits. You can cook Tea Cake Cookies using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tea Cake Cookies

1. Prepare 3 cup of All-purpose Flour.
2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of Sugar.
3. Prepare 1 pinch of of Salt.
4. Prepare 2 of Eggs.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of Baking powder.
7. Prepare 1 cup of Butter, melted.

A Traditional Southern tea cakes recipe makes simple cookies with more of a cake like taste. They have been pared-down ingredient list which results in a simple flavor. The term "tea cake" comes from the fact that the cookie lends itself to being paired with a cup of hot tea. Even though they're called cakes, tea cakes are old-fashioned cookies made with with butter, sugar, eggs, flour and vanilla.

Tea Cake Cookies instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F..
2. Mix all dry ingredients into a large bowl..
3. Melt butter and mix into dry ingredients. Add vanilla and eggs..
4. Mix dough and kneed with hands until well combined and forms ball of dough. (Add more flour if needed).
5. Roll out onto a flour dusted surface. Cut circles out of dough with small coffee cup or any desired shape of cookie cutter..
6. Place on cookie sheet and bake in preheated oven for 8-12 minutes. Or until slightly brown..
7. Decorate if desired after cooling. Store or serve..

They're perfect for afternoon tea or to enjoy with a glass of lemonade. In a bowl, cream together shortening and sugar. Add milk and vanilla; beat well. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in the egg and vanilla.