These were a first for me. My husband works for the school and they occasionally ask me to bake things, usually cookies or a dessert for the office party. This time they wanted Tea Cake cookies. I had never had them before and did not have a recipe. So one of the ladies baked a batch and sent them home with my husband along with the recipe. They were okay, but not very sweet and kind of hard. So I did a little Google research and found out they should be soft and buttery. So I compared the recipe I had to ones online and decided to add a little more butter in hopes they would come out better. And they did. They are soft and sweet, but not too sweet. And the dough is really good too. So here is the recipe that I used.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
4 Tbsp milk
3/4 tsp salt
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together.
3. Mix in the egg, vanilla, and milk.
4. Combine flour, salt, and baking powder together. Gradually add to the creamed mixture.
5. Lightly grease cookie sheet (I use parchment paper). Either drop by teaspoon and flatten for round cookie, or chill for one hour and roll out for cut-out cookies.
6. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let rest on baking sheet for one minute before transferring to cooling rack.
Makes approximately 4 dozen cookies. Store in an airtight container.
The dough will be soft. I used a drinking glass dipped in sugar to flatten the cookies. Since the dough is soft, it sticks to the bottom of the glass even with the sugar. I used an offset spatula to help remove them when they would stick. I think on the next batch I will try rolling the dough balls in sugar and then flattening.
These cookies are light and sweet. They will still be a little soft after baking, but they will firm up as they cool. They passed the kid test, and hopefully they will pass the teacher test tomorrow. (My husband is taking them to work tomorrow for a teacher workday treat.)
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