Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, best victorian tea cakes. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have best victorian tea cakes using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
- Take 3/4 Cup shortening (Crisco Butter Flavor is great!!)
- Get 1 Cup sugar
- Take 1 large egg
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- Take 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- Make ready 2 1/4 C flour
- Make ready 1/2 C buttermilk (will describe how to make your own below, super easy)
- Get Buttermilk
- Make ready 1/2 cup milk
- Make ready 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- Make ready Optional Glaze
- Get 3 C confectioners sugar
- Take 3 tablespoons (and maybe a touch more) milk..you want a loose but not watery mixture
- Make ready 1 teaspoon lemon extract
Steps to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
- Buttermilk: For this recipe, use 1/2 C of either 2% or whole milk and add 2 teaspoons of white vinegar..stir well and let sit for 5 minutes
- Cream together the shortening and sugar until smooth, beat in the egg
- At this point it's better to add the spices so they mix well…so add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, vanilla and lemon extract and mix well
- Now add half the buttermilk, mix in, then add the remaining buttermilk
- Now mix in the flour 1 cup at a time for a smooth dough…the dough will be light and fluffy
- Using the scoop, place the cakes 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet (dough will spread)
- Bake for 10-12 minutes
- Remove from oven and cool for 3 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to a rack or plate to cool completely
- Let the cakes cool to touch before glazing -also glazing is optional, these are great without the glaze too!
- Enjoy! ❤️❤️
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