Mom’s Russian Tea Cakes
This was the first thing my Mom let me make as a kid. I remember standing on a chair at the counter beside her when I was four or five years old as she showed me how to mix these little tea cakes up and bake them. I loved rolling them in the powdered sugar almost as much as I enjoyed eating them.
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Servings: 15 cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tbs. honey
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup plus 2 Tbs. flour
- more powdered sugar for rolling the tea cakes in, before and after baking
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the margarine and powdered sugar with the honey, salt, and vanilla. Stir in the flour, working until the ingredients come together to make a soft dough.
- Portion the dough into 1” balls, rolling each one in powdered sugar and placing them onto a greased cookie sheet, about 2” apart.
- Bake tea cakes, uncovered, on the center oven rack for 12-14 minutes, until the bottom of each tea cake is nicely browned.
- Remove the tea cakes from the oven, letting them rest on the baking sheet for a few minutes; roll each tea cake in powdered sugar once more while still warm, then place them onto a cooling rack until fully cooked.
- Store tea cakes in an airtight container for up to a week, or freeze for up to 6 months. Dough freezes well, too.
- Makes 12-15 tea cakes, depending on the size of the balls....and how much of the dough you “sample”.
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