Christmas Tea Cakes

Advent Series: PEACE

Luke 3: 4-6

Follow me for all four weeks of Advent and great Christmas cookie recipes! This is old-fashioned tea cake recipe is a family favorite. My great-grandmother was known for her tea cakes. As a First Lady of the church, she often served tea cakes when hosting family, friends, or baking for church events.

Tea Cakes

“Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking” by Toni Tipton-Martin

5 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

¼ tsp baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon ground or freshly grated nutmeg

1 stick (4 oz) butter at room temp

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

¼ cup buttermilk

1 tsp vanilla extract

Demerara sugar or raw sugar for sprinkling

Mix and refrigerate batter for at least an hour.

Roll out and cut dough into cookies with a biscuit cutter

Or cut into squares while still warm after baking.

Bake on 350 for 8 minutes.

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Devotional:

Luke 2:1-7

“In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.”

Maybe you have been holding a secret prayer in your heart that would be answered by Christmas. As Christmas looms near, you wonder if it will ever be answered. But God’s timing is not our own. I invited you to turn over those worries and unanswered prayers to Jesus and accept the gift of Peace at Christmas. The Lord will make a way.

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