Teacake du Jour: Cookbook du Jour, #5

By Hannah Lewis

Tea cakes and cookies for teatime (or with coffee). Enjoy 20 sweet treats from classics flavors like Southern Tea Cakes and the Victorian Sandwich to zesty flavors like Coconut Lime Teacake and Orange Chip Teacake. Pick your teacake du jour!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hannah Lewis
• Release date: Jun 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201895150

Hannah Lewis

Hannah Lewis has been cooking and baking for over 40 years and wants to share her favorite recipes with you. She is a wife and mother living in California. When not cooking, you can find her reading a cozy mystery, watching a really bad but delightful B movie, or puttering around in the garden.

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About Teacakes

Teacakes or tea cakes mean different things. Generally, it is a loaf cake or cookies. The one thing they have in common is that they go well with tea.

In England, a teacake is a light yeast-based sweet bun containing dried fruit (usually currants, sultanas, or citrus peel). It’s typically served toasted and buttered. In some areas of England, teacake does not contain fruit.

The Southeastern United States teacake is a traditional dense, large cookie made with sugar, butter, eggs, flour, and milk. In the rest of the United States, a teacake is a single layer cake or loaf cake.

Tekaka is the Swedish word for teacake, and it refers to a sweetened wheat soda bread and served warm with butter, jam, and often cheese.

In Australia and India, a teacake is often a heavy sponge cake.

Russian tea cakes are round, light cookies rolled in powdered sugar. There connection to Russian is unknown, but they are thought to have an Eastern European origin and have been served next to Russian samovars (a special tea pot). Similar cookies are Mexican wedding cakes, Italian wedding cookies, butterballs, and snowball cookies.

Spiced Tea Cake

serves 12

2 cups cake flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2