Russian Tea Cakes

Whenever I go in to a bakery, I always see these sweet little cookies that are coated with confectioners’ sugar. I just passed them buy thinking they couldn’t amount to very much. I always thought, the bigger the pastry, the better. Boy was I wrong.

It wasn’t until about 4 years ago when our family went to Victoria, B.C. that I was introduced to this delicate cookie. We had “High Tea” at the Empress for my birthday. This is when I became totally addicted to this cookie. I have always had a pipe dream that one day I would open up my own Tea Room so this was the prefect birthday gift. I shopped in their gift shop and bought this beautiful little cookbook named, “If Teapots Could Talk”. I love this book and every recipe in it.

I am going over to one of my best friends house this morning for “teatime” and thought I would make these little cookies this morning. What’s so wonderful about these little desserts, is that you can make them months in advance. I have frozen the batter up to a month and have also frozen the baked cookie. But that’s so dangerous. You just want to eat them directly from the freezer without waiting for them to thaw.

These Russian tea cakes melt in your mouth. I dare you to eat just one.
This recipe is on page 65.