Old Timey Tea Cakes
"This is like a soft, delicious sugar cookie I'm sure you'll enjoy!"
- Ready In:
- 22mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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5 dozen teacakes
ingredients
- 1 cup margarine
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
directions
- Cream margarine and sugar together well.
- Add eggs; cream well.
- Sift all dry ingredients together.
- Stir in dry ingredients and vanilla extract.
- Mix well.
- Drop by teaspoons.
- onto a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 375 degrees until done.
- Remove from cookie sheet.
- Cool then store in a tin or airtight container.
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Reviews
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I agree with one of the reviewer's critiques about the directions needing to be swapped in order, BUT the cookies are just so dang tasty that I can't take away a star. I'm super picky about my sugar cookies and usually get disappointed, but the first time I made these (over 10 years ago for bribery during a high school English presentation) they set a standard that has been difficult to match since. I just made them again for the first time in too long and was delighted with the results - soft, fluffy, and sweet. Add to that easy and fairly quick? Yes please! -
These are so good. My boys loved them! -
I haven't made this yet, but I plan to. Sugar is treated as a liquid. I learned that watching Alton Brown! -
I think the directions in this recipe could be a bit clearer. For example, first you are directed to mix all dry ingredients (which I thought included sugar), then you are instructed to cream together margarine and sugar - not possible if you followed first direction. I also think a general cooking time should be included. Mine took 6-8 minutes per batch. I have been trying to eat healthier these days, so I tried substituting whole wheat flour for the regular. Well, this was great for me. But thinking I'd pull one over on the kids I decided to add orange and black sprinkles and give these out as Halloween treats. My thinking was that after a night of collecting all of the sugar our town has to offer, a little whole wheat may do the kids some good. Well, as I said, the end result was great for me, I can't wait to have a cup of coffee with them in the morning. But I think the kids will smell the healthier change a mile away - it is quite obvious unfortunately. But overall, a nice recipe. -
Just like my mama used to make!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Nancy Sneed
United States
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