Recipe for Tea Cakes, Tea Cookie Recipes or Sour Cream Cookies

This simple recipe for tea cakes is probably one of the most popular shortbread cookie recipe know all over the world but by different names. You might hear them called the Mexican wedding cakes, the Russian tea cakes or the Italian butter nut. Here in the US you might say you are making a snowball cookie recipe, southern pecan butterball, melting moments or just simply sugar cookies or pecan balls. Whatever you like to call them, they are a necessity for your list of Christmas cookie recipes. This cookie is light and very tasty. You can roll them in powdered sugar or decorate them with colored sugar to liven up a cookie tray of your best holiday recipes. This is one recipe that has always been on my list.

TEA CAKES RECIPE

• 1 Cup soft butter


• ½ Cup sifted powdered sugar


• 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract


• 2 ¼ Cups flour


• 1/8 Teaspoon salt


• ¾ Cup finely chopped pecans

Cream together the butter and sugar; Add vanilla. Sift the flour and salt together and then add to the creamed mixture. Blend well and then blend in the chopped nuts. Refrigerate dough for a couple of hours.

Preheat oven to 400F degrees.

Roll dough in 1 inch balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake about 10 minutes or until cookies are set. While warm roll in powdered sugar.

NOTE FOR OPTIONS:

You could omit the nuts in this recipe and replace with mini chocolate chips or miniature peppermint chips.

Instead of vanilla you might like to flavor with a little lemon extract or grated orange zest.

Instead of coating with sugar after baking, while warm drizzle a little glaze over each cookie (maybe flavored with lemon)

RECIPE FOR TEA CAKES WITH RAISINS AND NUTS

• 1 Cup melted butter


• 2 Cups brown sugar


• 2 Beaten eggs


• 1 Teaspoon vanilla


• 3 Cups flour


• 1 Teaspoon baking soda


• ½ Teaspoons salt


• 1 Cup raisins


• ½ Cup flour


• ½ Cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 400F degrees.

Cream butter and sugar; beat in eggs and vanilla.

Combine and sift 3 cups flour, baking soda and salt; blend into creamed mixture.

Add ½ cup flour to raisins and nuts; blend well into other mixture.

Shape dough into balls and place on cookie sheets; flatten with bottom of glass.

Bake for 10 minutes and remove from sheets to cool.

RECIPE FOR TEA CAKES

This is actually one of the tea cookie recipes. It is a very old recipe for sour cream cookies and instructs you to roll the dough out and cut into small desired shapes before baking. They are nice for tea parties.

• 2 Cups sugar


• 2/3 Cup softened butter


• 1 Cup sour cream


• 1 Egg


• 1 Teaspoon baking soda


• 1 Teaspoon nutmeg


• Add enough flour to form a soft dough.

Preheat oven to 400F degrees.

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.

Stir baking soda into sour cream; add sour cream mixture and egg into butter and sugar mixture.

Add nutmeg and enough flour to form a soft dough; do not chill.

Roll dough about ¼ inch thickness and cut with small cutters; bake on greased cookie sheets until edges begin to brown.

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