Every Southern cook I know has a different way of making tea cakes. Even my grandmother and her sister, Earnestine, had different recipes for the delicately flavored sweet treats. Aunt Earnestine’s ...

Endlessly adaptable, tea cakes have long offered bakers across the country a moment of restoration. By Korsha Wilson The tea cake rarely gets its flowers. It’s not flashy or trendy. It doesn’t stand ...

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. 2. With an electric mixer, beat 2 whole eggs, 3 egg yolks and 7 tablespoons sugar together until thick and tripled in volume, about 5 minutes. 3. Sift together flour, ...

I was primed to be a tea drinker from a young age. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a screened-in porch with a tiny porcelain cup — pinkie up — mimicking my parents while they chatted ...

We asked several L.A.-area pastry chefs and cooks to contribute their favorite holiday cookies. Each is a simple, homestyle cookie that reflects each contributor’s memories of holidays past. While ...