Southern Buttermilk Tea Cakes inspired by Kim Prince of Hotville Chicken. (Portrait by Christina House / Los Angeles Times; cookie photo by Silvia Razgova / For The Times; food and prop styling by ...

TerryRaleigh was looking for an old-fashioned tea cake made with shortening or butter. Several readers responded, including Helen Foster with this recipe for a delicious, simple sugar-type cookie.

If you’re looking for a new, fun and absolutely adorable holiday dessert, forget baking a cake in the shape of a candy cane and whip up these snowmen tea cookies instead. Cute and delicious, what else ...

You should know something before we head into the kitchen: I don’t cook without a recipe, and I don’t bake, period (not unless you count tiny, soggy cakes from my 1960s Suzy Homemaker Oven or ...

Looking at these powdered sugar confections you're thinking, what a nice little buttery tea cake. Then your tongue gets smacked by a two-by-four of maple flavor. Well done J. Loraine Barbeaux of ...

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 ...