How to Use tea cake in a Sentence

tea cake

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Definition of tea cakenext
  • The grand dames of the South are smart cookies—make that tea cakes.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2016
  • His greatest success has been with a financier, the French tea cake made with browned butter.
    — Betsy Andrews, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The menu is very classic—think smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwiches, tea cakes, and scones made with Welsh butter.
    — Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 21 June 2023
  • Filipino mango float to British tea cake to that nostalgic banana pudding on the back of the Nilla wafer box.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The menu is very traditional—think smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwiches, tea cakes, and scones made with Welsh butter.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2019
  • Squirrel-skinning and tea cakes have made way for pizza and hummus, and this time around, there is tempeh, chana masala and Beef Rendang.
    — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The sweet orange glaze is optional; leave it off for a perfect breakfast or tea cake, or add the glaze for a more festive, special treat.
    — Jill O'Connor, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In my family, the tea cake was perfected by my grandmother, and that torch has been passed to my mother, Georgia.
    — Dallas News, 14 June 2022
  • Fans of the bakery’s straightforward tea cakes, currant scones and fruit galettes won’t be disappointed.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The family includes muffins, biscuits, scones, tea cakes and many other siblings.
    — Robin Mather, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • Romanian sarmale were soon ready on Saturday, and desserts, from nut and poppy seed rolls to Russian tortes and tea cakes, were to be made in the next couple weeks.
    — Katie Jones, baltimoresun.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Favorites include the traditional spritz, Russian tea cakes, peanut butter kiss and roll outs.
    — Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
  • According to Colorland, women traditionally get the day off and get together for tea cakes while the men do the housework and the cooking.
    — Annie O’Sullivan, Woman's Day, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The spread features a darjeeling tea cake shaped like crown atop a crimson cushion, while the hotel bar serves a coronation cocktail: a martini with a splash of darjeeling tea, trimmed with gold leaf.
    — Kelvin Chan, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The afternoon tea features a wide variety of teas and a menu of royal Kensington biscuits, majestic apricot crumb bar, along with a chocolate tea cake.
    — Roger Sands, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • Stella Jean’s is known for its unique ice cream flavors, including recent specials s’mores, ube & pandesal toffee, milk & cookies and Earl Gray & citrus tea cake.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
  • This simple recipe for chamomile tea cake uses every opportunity to imbue the final crumb with its flowery flavor.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • My favorite dessert on the current menu follows the seasonal thread: Stovall rethinks ciambellone, an Italian tea cake often scented with lemon zest, into a flourless olive oil and almond cloud.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • In the United States, yearly classics include sugar cookies, gingerbread people with raisin eyes and lopsided smiles, molasses thumbprint cookies, and powdered Russian tea cakes (also known as Mexican wedding cakes), among many others.
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2017

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