Texas tea cakes

Southern Tea Cakes - easy and addictive Southern baked treats slightly sweetened with faint notes of nutmeg, vanilla and lemon zest.

Big Mama's Tea Cakes recipe is from Harry's Favorite Recipes Cookbook Project, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. Family cookbooks are an important way to preserve our mealtime traditions for future generations with individual printed recipes or your own professionally printed cookbook.

Today’s rescued recipe comes from east Texas, from a gray metal filing box I bought on Ebay. The seller was a woman in Texas, who’d acquired this recipe box at an estate sale. Early thi…

These classic tea cakes pair perfectly with iced tea on a hot summer day!

There's nothing quite like the sweet flavors and warm memories that a simple Southern cookie can conjure up.

These tasty old fashioned tea cakes will bring you right back to your southern roots!!!

These are soft, warm, tender pieces of your past. They aren’t sweet like a sugar cookie. They are the perfect amount of sweetness to encourage you to eat three or four in one sitting. The middle is always soft and the edges never brown.

My Nanny's southern old fashioned tea cakes are part of every food memory from my childhood. Like sweet biscuits, they are part cake, part cookie!

Tea cakes are buttery and slightly soft, not as sweet as a sugar cookie and falling somewhere between a cookie and a cake.

This simple and nostalgic recipe for Old Fashioned Tea Cakes brings a touch of Southern charm to your kitchen.