Best Victorian Tea Cakes
Best Victorian Tea Cakes

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, best victorian tea cakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Best Victorian Tea Cakes is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Best Victorian Tea Cakes is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have best victorian tea cakes using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
  1. Get 3/4 Cup shortening (Crisco Butter Flavor is great!!)
  2. Take 1 Cup sugar
  3. Make ready 1 large egg
  4. Get 1 teaspoon baking powder
  5. Get 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  6. Get 1/4 teaspoon salt
  7. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  8. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
  9. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  10. Make ready 2 1/4 C flour
  11. Make ready 1/2 C buttermilk (will describe how to make your own below, super easy)
  12. Take Buttermilk
  13. Get 1/2 cup milk
  14. Take 2 teaspoons white vinegar
  15. Take Optional Glaze
  16. Get 3 C confectioners sugar
  17. Get 3 tablespoons (and maybe a touch more) milk..you want a loose but not watery mixture
  18. Prepare 1 teaspoon lemon extract
Instructions to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:
  1. 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
  2. Cream together the shortening and sugar until smooth, beat in the egg
  3. 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
  4. Now add half the buttermilk, mix in, then add the remaining buttermilk
  5. Now mix in the flour 1 cup at a time for a smooth dough…the dough will be light and fluffy
  6. Using the scoop, place the cakes 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet (dough will spread)
  7. Bake for 10-12 minutes
  8. Remove from oven and cool for 3 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to a rack or plate to cool completely
  9. Let the cakes cool to touch before glazing -also glazing is optional, these are great without the glaze too!
  10. Enjoy! ❤️❤️

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