The perfect desert is a Southern Tea Cake.
What is a Southern Tea Cake? So glad you asked!! It is a soft vanilla like cookie/cake that has a very light flavor of vanilla. It looks like a sugar cookie, rises like a whoopie pie and is amazingly light and easy to make.
I used Paula Deen's recipe from http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/southern-tea-cakes-recipe/index.html and only changed a few things such sugar amount and used buttermilk powder and water in place of buttermilk. I also changed the order to mix it in and the way to incorporate the last cup of flour. I enjoy a more hands on way of making dough!!!!
Southern Tea Cakes
Ingredients
4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk (I use 2 tablespoons buttermilk powder and 1/2 water)
2 sticks of butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat the oven to 350.
In a bowl mix butter, sugar, eggs, buttermilk mixture, and vanilla. Add baking soda and baking powder. Add 1 cup of flour at a time until the 3rd cup. Then turn your dough onto a floured surface and mix in the rest of the flour 1/4 cup at a time with hands. Dough should be soft but not stick to you. Mine took 3 3/4 of flour all together.
Divide dough into two sections. Flatten by hand and use a round cookie cutter to cut out your tea cakes. I have a set of plastic cutters that the dough went right to the top, about 1/4 of an inch thick. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 12 minutes.
Cool on cooking rack. They will rise up and look like little cakes.
Optional: I took 1 tablespoon of water, a few drops of vanilla and 1/3 cup of powdered sugar and mixed a quick glaze. I drizzled this over 12 cookies and then topped with some pretty pink sugar sprinkles.
I do not have step by step pictures but I do have the end result!! Any questions let me know!!
Enjoy!!!!!!!!
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