Old Fashioned Teacakes
Family recipe for old fashioned tea cakes. Made with simple ingredients and so tasty! Perfect fo teaching kids how to bake. Get messy in the kitchen!
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time10 minutes mins
Total Time30 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: rolled cookies, sugar cookies, tea cakes
Servings: 32
Calories: 167kcal
- 1 ½ cup Shortening Not oil, use solid shortening like Crisco
- 2 ½ cup Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 2 T Vanilla Flavoring
- 4 ½ -5 cup Self-Rising Flour
Cream shortening, sugar, flavoring, and eggs together until fluffy. Add 3 1/2 cups of flour a little at a time. Turn out on a floured countertop or cover the countertop with wax or parchment paper. Flour the paper and the rolling pin. Work in another 1 - 1 1/2 cups of flour. Divide dough into three balls and roll one ball at a time. Roll to a thickness of a little less than 1/4" inch. Cut out with a cookie cutter and place on a greased cookie sheet or cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. The recipe calls for baking at 375° but this is too hot for my oven, I bake at about 325° for 10 minutes and then a couple of minutes more on broil to brown the cookies lightly.Remove from pan with a spatula and cool on waxed or parchment paper.Store in a sealed container or zip-lock bag.I used about a 2.75" cutter and the recipe yielded 32 cookies.
If you are not sure how thick to roll the cookies, do a small pan first with 4-6 cookies and test the desired thickness. Rolling dough very thin will result in crispier cookies but they will also bake quicker and burn easily. Rolling the dough too thick can result in harder cookies. Doing a test batch also allows you to adjust the cooking temperature and time if needed.
These old-fashioned tea cakes are great topped with chocolate too!
Serving: 1g | Calories: 167kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 7mg | Potassium: 11mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 22IU | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.1mg