Tea cake cookies
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My Nanny's southern old fashioned tea cakes are part of every food memory from my childhood. Like sweet biscuits, they are part cake, part cookie!

Christi Williams saved to Sweet Tooth
5 · 50 minutes · Russian Tea Cakes are tender, buttery cookies with a light nutty flavor all covered in powdered sugar! Also called "Snowballs," these cookies are delicious and a wonderful holiday classic!
6 ingredients
Baking & Spices
- • 2 1/4 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
- • 1/2 tsp Salt
- • 2 tsp Vanilla extract
Nuts & Seeds
- • 3/4 cup Nuts
Dairy
- • 1 cup Butter, unsalted

Kim Illarde saved to cookies
With some basic ingredients that you have in your pantry, you can make a batch of Old Fashioned Southern Tea Cakes. I bet you can't eat just one.
kendra brown saved to Old fashioned tea cakes
4 · 20 minutes · I’ve baked many batches of cookies through the years, but family and friends tell me these southern treats are the best. The simple buttery flavor appeals to all.—Doris McGough, Dothan, AL
7 ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 3 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
- • 3 cups All-purpose flour
- • 2 tsp Baking powder
- • 1/4 tsp Salt
- • 1 1/2 cups Sugar
- • 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
- • 1 cup Butter
Ava Hilliard saved to food
The best (and easiest) Southern Tea Cakes Recipe (or tea cake cookies recipe) is here! You will feel like you are right in the South after making and serving these, not to mention eating them.

Linda Graves saved to Cookies
Tea cakes are buttery and slightly soft, not as sweet as a sugar cookie and falling somewhere between a cookie and a cake.

Amanda Silvers saved to Tea cakes
64 · 35 minutes · This is my Mom's famous Russian Teacake recipe! This classic recipe is a family favorite, wether you call them snowballs or teacakes or wedding cookies!
7 ingredients
Baking & Spices
- • 2 1/4 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
- • 1 Powdered sugar
- • 1/4 tsp Salt
- • 1 tsp Vanilla
Nuts & Seeds
- • 3/4 cup Nuts
Dairy
- • 1 cup Butter, unsalted

Ruby Wells saved to Cookies
21 · 27 minutes · Southern Tea Cakes are perfect for afternoon coffee or tea. This old-fashioned recipe is similar to a sugar cookie and makes an easy snack.
21 · 27 minutes · Southern Tea Cakes are perfect for afternoon coffee or tea. This old-fashioned recipe is similar to a sugar cookie and makes an easy snack.
9 ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
- • 3 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 tsp Baking soda
- • 1 1/4 cups Granulated sugar
- • 1 Granulated sugar
- • 1/4 tsp Salt
- • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
- • 1 cup Butter
- • 3 tbsp Buttermilk
This Russian Tea Cakes Recipe creates melt in your mouth buttery cookies that have pecans and are rolled in powdered sugar. A classic holiday cookie to share with everyone you love!

Robert Martin saved to Christmas recipes
14 · 30 minutes · Old Fashioned Tea Cake Cookies are a favorite here in the south. They are made with just a few simple ingredients you probably have in your pantry–sugar, butter, eggs, oil, vanilla, flour and some odds and ends So easy! #desserts #teacakes #teacakecookies #homemadecookies #cookies #homeatcedarspringsfarm
10 ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs
Baking & Spices
- • 4 1/2 cups All purpose flour
- • 2 tsp Baking powder
- • 1 tsp Baking soda
- • 2 tsp Cream of tartar
- • 1 cup Powdered sugar
- • 1 cup Sugar
- • 1 tsp Vanilla
Oils & Vinegars
- • 1 cup Oil
Dairy
- • 2 sticks Butter