Black folk tea cakes are a delightful Southern dessert. These little round cakes are light, airy, and sometimes compared to soda bread or pound cake. Like sweet little biscuits, tea cakes are ...

While it's generally very easy to distinguish between sponge and tea cakes, in terms of texture, the latter straddles multiple sweet treats, which can sometimes make things confusing. It can be ...

Buttermilk adds tenderness and tang to these soft, cake-like cookies, a great blank canvas for your favorite extracts or spices.

I was inspired to bake and opted for the local honey from Barre, MA – and I knew just how I was going to use it. Pound cake! Since I'm not about that complicated all-day-to-make-a-cake life, I knew ...

My children like the old-fashioned tea cakes. However, their favorite is the recipe that a lady baked and called Tennessee Tea Cakes. She has retired and her children closed the business.

For example, these fig, honey and lemon tea cakes go from bowl to plate in about 30 minutes (and they’re even dairy-free optional).

This light, fluffy, sponge is delicate and delicious. Don’t be put off by the piping; it’s incredibly forgiving and very easy to get a striking effect. This floral tea cake recipe is featured ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 1, 2024, Page 20 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Ginger Up: Transforming a knockout tea into a knockout tea cake..