Like sweet little biscuits, tea cakes are highly valued in the South as the perfect complement to high tea. Pinkies up and teabags down! Tea cakes are typically served with hot tea at events like ...

Southern. Meet sweet tea cake, an iced loaf cake infused with the bold flavor of black tea. The cake actually tastes like sweet tea. Six bags of black tea give this cake its signature earthy ...

In "Bibi's Gulf Coast Kitchen," columnist Bibi Hutchings takes you on a culinary journey across the coastal south. Come for the ... conversations about what made a tea cake a tea cake arose.

A lumpy batter is okay; do not overmix or the tea cakes will be tough and dense. For the topping, mix the cane sugar, turbinado sugar and if using, cornflower petals in a small bowl. Evenly ...

You can imagine my delight when I spotted this Earl Grey Tea Cake in Polina Chesnakova’s book “Everyday Cake,” a motto for my life if I ever heard one. But unlike another recipe I’ve ...

Bake 8-10 minutes. Do not over bake. Makes approximately 3 dozen tea cakes. You can fancy these up by frosting them, but they are good just plain also. This butter cream frosting is really good on ...

Endlessly adaptable, tea cakes have long offered bakers across the country a moment of restoration. By Korsha Wilson The tea cake rarely gets its flowers. It’s not flashy or trendy. It doesn’t ...