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[Neesy]

Had to Google them

LOL Neesy,I must admitt I have no idea. Ain't I smart.

Might be a mini muffin-like cake? or maybe more like a cookie? (I've been reading the descriptions)

Your picture looks good!

I should look up the recipe - maybe I could try to make a batch

 

[Doc Creed]

LOL Neesy,I must admitt I have no idea. Ain't I smart.

Halloween would be a fine time to go all out and charge a little extra. They would get to see your complete collection and get a pic next to Pennywise. Maybe a raffle could be included. I hope you rake in the dough.

 

[king family fan]

Halloween would be a fine time to go all out and charge a little extra. They would get to see your complete collection and get a pic next to Pennywise. Maybe a raffle could be included. I hope you rake in the dough.

I am thinking January as its our anniversary and don't really want tons of people. Really don't feel right charging anything.

 

[king family fan]

Might be a mini muffin-like cake? or maybe more like a cookie? (I've been reading the descriptions)

Your picture looks good!

I should look up the recipe - maybe I could try to make a batch

if you find a recipe please post it .

 

[Doc Creed]

Might be a mini muffin-like cake? or maybe more like a cookie? (I've been reading the descriptions)

Your picture looks good!

I should look up the recipe - maybe I could try to make a batch

Teacakes are a traditional Southern favorite, usually at a ladies' luncheon or something. They are from an old-fashioned recipe and light and no sweeter than a poundcake. They are small or cookie shaped, like in your photo. Never had Tennessee Teacake.

 

[king family fan]

Teacakes are a traditional Southern favorite, usually at a ladies' luncheon or something. They are from an old-fashioned recipe and light and no sweeter than a poundcake. They are small or cookie shaped, like in your photo. Never had Tennessee Teacake.

thanks Doc, aparently Iam not very southern. LOL

 

[Doc Creed]

if you find a recipe please post it .

These are the kind I'm familiar with.

 

[Spideyman]

Abit of a story here. Doc it is funny you should say I should charge.We go King treasure hunting to several stores. Most people cashiers get to know me. I had one of one of our hot spots suggest that we have like a museum day and charge admission to walk through my home. Not sure about this yet. I have had a few remarks that make me laugh. At Wal-mart I was buying a few King things and the cashier says that is my favorite author. I said mine too. She said she was a big fan,I said me too. So I told her I had my photo books of my collection in the car. So got them,showed her and she replied,I thought I was a fan until I ran across you.
Then back to our hot spot. One of the cashiers has seen the photo books and we been going there for a couple years now. So she was telling us about another fan. That said shes a big fan. So now she tells this other fan all kinds of stories about our house.A this bookstore we are knew as the creepy king people.(Just by the ones who don"t know us.LOL Then we have a used bookstore we have gone to for years. Afew cashiers now keep an eye out for King books I may not have.

Anyway this leads me to thinking about mixing to special things in my life together. My husband and I got married by the county clerk. We took our wedding and reception money to adopt our son and never looked back. Seems we have wanted to have an anniversary party but just never had the funds. This child needed this or that child needed that.Iam thinking in January having friends and cashiers I have met over to the house for the events. No charge of course. Perhaps snacks or a meal.

. Any opinions or ideas?

Great idea-- make it casual, easy cleanup- paper goods. Simple foods--maybe a local deli to make sandwiches ( think sports event party ). Yes to donation jar---- if you do not feel you desire the collection, could be donated to a charity. Just a grand and fun idea.

 

[Neesy]

These are the kind I'm familiar with.

Thanks Doc Creed

Here is another version but this one is not as much like a cookie, as it is baked in little paper cups:


I enjoy your column very much. My family has enjoyed many of your recipes. I hope you can find one for me. 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. It is the only tea cake that I have found that is baked in a small cupcake paper and is not just a cookie. It has a certain flavor that I can’t replicate. It may be brown sugar. I have tried to find a recipe like it, but have had no success.

A: The lady who made Tennessee T-Cakes was the late Frances Ann Barkley of Nashville, who died of lung cancer in 2011. Barkley started the business in her kitchen using a hundred-year-old family recipe. After Oprah Winfrey featured them as one of her favorite things in 2006, the Tennessee Tea Cake became an international sensation, churning out 90,000 cakes a week in flavors as diverse as key lime and chocolate truffle. Alas, the company closed when Barkley died, and her daughters vowed the recipe would stay a family secret. But you can get some hints watching a video of Barkley on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9BXY5rcSk), shot in 2010 by Tennessee Crossroads TV.


Barkley says the T-Cake is “not a cake or a candy or a cookie” but a “confection” and she says the ingredients are “flour, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.”
There are many recipes for Southern tea cakes, which tend to be cookies, and there are those who make them with buttermilk, and some who insist you add nutmeg, but I created the recipe here using just the simple ingredients Barkley mentioned and leaning on my favorite blondie recipe.

These cakes turn out chewy and crisp on the outside with a softer inside. I made them in regular cupcake pans.

Tennessee tea cakes

1 stick butter
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt

Confectioners’ sugar
Measure butter and sugars into a heavy saucepan and set over medium heat. As the butter melts, whisk in the sugars. Cook, whisking constantly, until sugar is completely dissolved; do not allow to burn. Remove from heat and let cool about 10 minutes.
Beat in eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour and salt until just combined. Do not overbeat. Line tin with cupcake liners. Spoon in the batter to fill cups by about ¾.
Bake in a 350-degree oven for about 15 to 18 minutes; the cakes should be like brownies, glossy and crisped on outer edges but not completely dry in the center. While still warm, sift confectioners’ sugar on top. Makes 10 to 12, depending upon size.


Both versions look really good!

king family fan - sorry to hijack or derail this thread



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Per serving: 218 calories (35 percent from fat), 8.6 g fat (5.1 g saturated, 2.3 g monounsaturated), 51 mg cholesterol, 2.7 g protein, 33 g carbohydrates, .4 g

 

[Charms7]

In the words of Darth Vader: “Impressive. Most impressive.”

 

[kingricefan]

Wow, Linda, your collection is so awesome. It puts mine to shame!! I wish we lived closer so we could come to each others homes and look through our King-ly things.

 

[king family fan]

Wow, Linda, your collection is so awesome. It puts mine to shame!! I wish we lived closer so we could come to each others homes and look through our King-ly things.

Oh me too. We would be bad company. Cause we would have so much to talk about and check out. That we would bore everyone else. They probably couldn't get a word in edgewise.

 

[Neesy]

Oh me too. We would be bad company. Cause we would have so much to talk about and check out. That we would bore everyone else. They probably couldn't get a word in edgewise.

It would be like when Lennon met McCartney

 

[HollyGolightly]

The KFF and KRF Show!! That would be big fun! Neesy needs some tea cakes! They are really good - kind of dense, gooey stick to the wrapper sticky sweet. The ones I've had have a very distinct pecan flavor. I do think they are an East Tennessee thing - that's why king family fan you might not know about them. But now you must!

Hey- you could even host a weekly SK trivia night and have an SK reading group!

 

[misery chastain loves co.]

OMG Linda. Love, Love, LOVE it!!!! And IT of course! Using the display to hold your IT Funkos is fantastic. Amazing collection and thank you for sharing! I thought I had a decent IT display but yours is gorgeous! The towels! I love that!

 

[GNTLGNT]

...well Lin, I feel bad you have such a sparse and patchy collection.....so, I'll be more than happy to send you a couple of extras out of my hoarding so you won't feel so ashamed.....

 

[Alexandra M]

These are the kind I'm familiar with.

Doc Creed
I have never heard of these before Doc, they look good. Going to have a look through the link you posted.

 

[misery chastain loves co.]

Maybe we should have the next Kon at Linda's!

 

[Alexandra M]

Teacakes are a traditional Southern favorite, usually at a ladies' luncheon or something. They are from an old-fashioned recipe and light and no sweeter than a poundcake. They are small or cookie shaped, like in your photo. Never had Tennessee Teacake.

Maybe ghost19 will make us some teacakes
Seriously though I would be interested in the recipe that matches the picture of the little cakes.
What do you think Ghost, wanna whip up a batch?
Sorry, just had a mental image of you in an apron making these cakes ....

 

[Cowboy]

Very cool and impressive collection!