Southern Tea Cakes

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Show: Paula's Home CookingEpisode: Afternoon Tea Party

Rated: 5 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (29)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(29)

Cook Time:
10 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
6 to 8 dozen

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 10 min
Total:: 30 min

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Ingredients

4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large bowl sift flour, baking soda, and baking powder together. Add remaining ingredients and blend well. Dough should be soft. Roll dough out onto a floured surface until approximately 1/4-inch thick. Cut dough into desired shapes and bake on a slightly greased sheet for 10 to 12 minutes.

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recipe Southern Tea Cakes
Marianne Houston, TX 11-08-2009
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Nostalic
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Haven't had tea cakes since I was a child. When I tried these, it was a nostalic experience. SO Good!
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FAYE McKinney, TX 11-29-2007
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Finally! The tea cake recipe I have been craving.
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Yes, I crave true Southern tea cakes. My aunt made them for me when I was young, and I never got her recipe. The closest I... have ever come is a bakery and cafe in Franklin, TN. My son and his family lived there for 8 years, and I always had to go to that wonderful bakery and cafe, just off the downtown area, and fill up a bag to bring back to Texas with me. Truth be told, very few made it to the Texas border. Now, Paula has given me the recipe that is the closest to my aunt's and brings back wonderful memories. Not too sweet, thick and yummy. Maybe this is a Southern thing, don't know, but it shouldn't be. Everyone should try them and start making memories of your own. Thank you, Paula, and please keep the great Southern traditions of good food, family and fun so we can all keep enjoying our own comfort foods. Love ya!Read more
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Anonymous 04-18-2007
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Mom's Teacakes
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Great reminder of my mom's teacakes. Yum!
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Connie Keno, OR 04-14-2007
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Afternoon Tea
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All the receipes you make are wonderful and these are no eception, but the reason I am writing is to thank-you for featuring... The Savannah Tearoom on this show. It brought back memmories for me of my mother and I when I was in my teens and we lived in Clolrado and there was a tea room in the Mall and we would go and have tea and sandwiches, just her and I. We live far apart now but those were good times and I hope we can make some new ones again, Thank you again. You are a very special person, God Bless You.Read more
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Ebony Plaquemine, LA 03-26-2007
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great pie crust
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This recipe is sooo easy to make. I use this dough for pie crusts and it is so good.
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Alicia Spring, TX 01-13-2007
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BRINGS BACK MEMORIES!!!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

We used to get these cookies after church in a big zip loc bag usually from one of the older ladies in the church and WE JUST... LOVED THEM.....this recipe is easy and is very close if not the same in taste with the ones i remember.....SPRINKLE NUTMEG ON THEM AFTER BAKING like one of the memebers suggested...that brings the taste out even more!!!!!!!! THANKS PAULA U ROCK!Read more