Tea Cakes

Name: How to cook Tea Cakes - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: ALOT!
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Sonya Bankester

Tea Cakes

I was given this recipe for Old Fashions Tea Cakes some 33+ years ago, from my neighbors mom. She had MANY children, and this recipe makes MANY cookies. I usually roll out the dough for cut-out cookies to bake and frost. But for Valentines Day, I wanted something different.

Ingredient

Food ration :

ALOT!

eggs

2-1/2 cups

sugar

1-1/4 cups

Crisco shortening (I use Butter flavor)

1/4 cup

milk

2 tsp.

vanilla or your fav

2 cups

self-rising flour (up to 6 cups after kneading & rolling combined)

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Beat eggs, sugar & crisco well.

* Step 2

Add milk & vanilla.

* Step 3

Stir in flour. I found it easier to add 4 cups, so the dough won’t be so sticky.

* Step 4

Turn dough out on floured surface, knead until smooth. Cut into favorite cookie shapes.

* Step 5

Place on greased cookie sheets.

* Step 6

Bake at 350*, until golden brown around edges.

* Step 7

Cool 3 minutes on cookie sheet before transferring to cooling rack. Let cool completely before frosting/icing.

* Step 8

For the large cookie cakes. Grease and flour cake pan of choice. Smooth cookie dough into pan(s). Just enough dough to cover bottom of pan. Bake at 350* for 18-22 minutes or until cookie is a golden brown. Let cool 5 minutes in pan. Turn out on cooling rack to cool completely. Treat cookie gently while still warm because it will fall apart.

* Step 9

I melted some chocolate chips to decorate it. I prefer, decorators frosting, but my Valentine, does not. I baked a total of 1 large, 4 (8”), 2 (6”) cookies

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