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Tea Cakes

A tender cross between pound cake and shortbread, as Heidi Haughy Cusick described them in her 1995 cookbook, Soul and Spice, tea cakes are not as sweet as sugar cookies and less fluffy than madeleines . They show up in black cookbooks—a lot. Through the history of this recipe, I found the combinat...
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Tea Cakes
Ingredients
11 INGREDIENTS
2 SERVINGS
Vanilla Extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
Demerara Sugar
demerara sugar
for sprinkling
Eggs
2 large eggs
Ground Nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
Baking Powder
1 tsp baking powder
Sugar
1 cup sugar
Baking Soda
1/4 tsp baking soda
All Purpose Flour
3 cups all purpose flour
plus more for the work surface
Buttermilk
1/4 cup buttermilk
Butter
1 stick butter
at room temperature
Salt
1/2 tsp salt
Directions
23 STEPS
View Directions on Epicurious
Health Info
Macros
267g
CARBS
54g
FAT
28g
PROTEIN
Allowed on these diets
GLUTEN FREE
LACTOSE FREE
VEGETARIAN
Contains these allergens
MILK
EGGS
WHEAT
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