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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Lemon-myrtle, lavender-Earl Grey, hazelnut-orange -- the selection of tea cakes from Valerie Confections screams spring. Assistant Food editor Betty Hallock is a fan: “They’re moist, dense and not too ...

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 ...

There’s something about certain letters that reaches out and plucks at our heartstrings. For whatever reason, Snohomish cook Dorothy Trethewy’s recent request, dare I say, is one of those ...

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 ...