The cookies are a variation on a Mexican wedding cookie and Russian tea cakes recipe. They’re basically barely sweet nut balls rolled in powdered sugar. When I was a kid, we knew them as ...

If you touch the cookies, you'll leave a big fingerprint so, you know, don't. Allow the cookies to cool completely, they taste much better at room temp than warm.

Maple Pecan Tea Cakes 1 cup butter, softened ½ cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla ¼ teaspoon maple flavoring 2¼ cups flour ¼ teaspoon salt ¾ cup pecans, finely chopped Powdered sugar and ...

This is the recipe that became the tea cake recipe. It originated from a supposed "friend of my mother's," whom she said was born and raised "just outside of London." As though it had been handed ...

A recipe for tea cakes shows up in “ The Brooklyn Cookbook,” published in 1991, an overview of the history of the borough’s foods, linking the cakes to Weeksville, a haven for many formerly ...