How to Use tea cake in a Sentence

tea cake

noun
  • The grand dames of the South are smart cookies—make that tea cakes.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2016
  • The one that’s really popular this month is the Earl Grey tea cake.
    — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The family includes muffins, biscuits, scones, tea cakes and many other siblings.
    — Robin Mather, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • 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
  • This cake honors the classic beverage with a sweet tea cake and tangy Lemonade Frosting.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Favorites include the traditional spritz, Russian tea cakes, peanut butter kiss and roll outs.
    — Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Even though they're called cakes, tea cakes are actually easy-to-make, easier-to-eat old-fashioned cookies with a light lemon flavor.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Get this for your foodie friend (or yourself) and sample goodies like yuzu hard candies, strawberry matcha tea cakes, and cherry blossom tea.
    — Jenifer Calle, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Rugged scenery, terrifyingly narrow roads, and a buffet of lovely Scottish burrs can be the icing on this episode’s wee tea cake!
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Select flights also include Virgin's signature afternoon tea service, featuring sandwiches, tea cakes, and warm scones with jam and clotted cream.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2025
  • 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
  • Select flights also include Virgin's signature afternoon tea service, featuring sandwiches, tea cakes, and warm scones with jam and clotted cream.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2025
  • The challenge required humanoid robots to identify and pluck tea leaves, carry loads across uneven mountain terrain, spread leaves for sun-drying, and participate in subsequent processing stages, including roasting and pressing tea cakes.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • Around 4,500 hospitality meals are served each day, along with a delightfully English 12,000 scones (half fruit, half plain) and another 12,000 tea cakes per Test.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • Located in one of Pacific Highlands Ranch’s unique shopkeeper units next to the Village shopping center, The Cakery is a modern Korean-French bakery that specializes in cheesecakes and French tea cakes.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026

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