Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Tea Cake Cookies Recipe


How to make Tea Cake Cookies ?
I suggest 2 recipe.

Tea Cake Cookies Recipe 1

1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup shortening (Crisco)
2/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

Instructions:
Cream the butter, shortening and sugar until very fluffy and thoroughly creamed. Add vanilla and salt. Add one egg and beat well. Add the other egg and beat well. Stir in flour. Mix well. Drop by teaspoonsful on greased cookie sheet. Flatten each cookie and bake at 375 until edges of cookies are delicately brown (usually about 8-10 min) Remove from cookie sheet immediately.
Makes about 6 dozen

Tea Cake Cookies Recipe 2

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
2/3 cups walnuts, finely chopped
2 cups (12 oz. pkg). chocolate chips (divided 1-1/2 and 1/2 cups)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Beat butter and powdered sugar together until creamy. Add the
flour and nuts. Stir in 1-1/2 cups of chips. Roll dough into 1" balls and
place on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 - 12 minutes or until a light golden brown. Cook for 2 minutes
then remove off baking sheet.

Melt the remaining chip. I put them in a zip loc bag and either put the bag in
boiling water or in the microwave for 30 seconds. Once melted, knead the
bag and then cut a small hole in the edge. Then drizzle the chocolate over
the tops of the cookies. Chill until chocolate is set.