old-fashioned Southern Recipe

Tea Cakes

recipe info

Ingredients

5

cookies

48

Minutes

28

 In a large bowl, whisk eggs and sugar together with a fork or whisk. Add vanilla. Slowly pour in butter and stir gently with fork until well mixed.

step 2

Stir in flour until well mixed and you have a stiff dough.

step 3

Knead the dough a few times, then roll out to ¼-1/2 inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. 

step 4

Cut with cookie cutters and place on baking sheet.

These cookies will not spread much so you can put them close together.

step 7

Bake 8-9 minutes until bottom is barely turning brown.