Steps to Make Perfect Best Victorian Tea Cakes

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, best victorian tea cakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Best Victorian Tea Cakes is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Best Victorian Tea Cakes is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Best Victorian Tea Cakes:

1. Get 3/4 Cup shortening (Crisco Butter Flavor is great!!)
2. Prepare 1 Cup sugar
3. Take 1 large egg
4. Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
5. Take 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
6. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt
7. Take 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
8. Get 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
9. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
10. Make ready 2 1/4 C flour
11. Prepare 1/2 C buttermilk (will describe how to make your own below, super easy)
12. Make ready Buttermilk
13. Get 1/2 cup milk
14. Make ready 2 teaspoons white vinegar
15. Take Optional Glaze
16. Take 3 C confectioners sugar
17. Make ready 3 tablespoons (and maybe a touch more) milk..you want a loose but not watery mixture
18. Make ready 1 teaspoon lemon extract

Steps 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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