tea cakes
Toasted buttered rounds
Tea cakes are small, lightly sweetened cakes or cookies served with tea.
The term varies by region: in the American South, tea cakes are simple, round sugar cookies with a tender crumb; in Britain, they're often small iced buns with dried fruit.
Grandmother's tea cakes were a holiday tradition.
- sconesSmall quick breads
- biscuitsSmall, leavened quick breads
- shortbreadButtery, crumbly biscuit
- petits foursTiny decorated confections
- crumpetsSpongy griddle cakes
madeleines · afternoon · china · bone china · tiered · dainty · icing · sponge · finger sandwiches · doilies · buttercream · royal icing · porcelain · clotted cream · lemon curd · jam · sugar · delicate
- Southern Dessertspecan pie, peach cobbler, banana pudding, sweet potato pie, pralines
- Victorian sweetsVictoria sponge, plum pudding, Christmas pudding, figgy pudding, trifle
- snackschips, crackers, cookies, granola bars, chocolate
- cafe treatsespresso, latte, cappuccino, croissant, muffin
- holiday sweetsgingerbread cookies, sugar cookies, gingerbread house, gingerbread men, gingerbread man
- French pastriesmacarons, eclairs, profiteroles, madeleines, palmiers
tea cakesmain course
Primary dish served
meat pies · pot roast · stew · casserole · shepherd's pie
tea cakessausage rolls
Meat wrapped in pastry
cheese straws · meat pies · pork rinds · garlic bread · beef jerky
tea cakeshardtack
Imperishable unleavened wafer
dense bread · fruitcake · bread pudding · pumpernickel · bagels