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In the U.S. teacakes can be cookies or small cakes. In Sweden, they are soft, round, flat wheat breads made with milk and a little sugar, and used to make buttered ham or cheese sandwiches. In India and Australia, a teacake is more like a butter cake. Tea refers to the popular beverage to which these baked goods are an accompaniment.
A teacake is a dessert item served with tea. Teacake or Tea Cake may also refer to: Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats (chocolate teacakes) Tunnock's Teacakes, a brand of chocolate-coated teacakes; Compressed tea (tea cakes), tea leaves compressed into blocks; Russian tea cake, butter cookies with powdered sugar; Fictional characters
The average krembo weighs 25 grams (0.88 ounces) and has 115 calories. [71] According to the fine print on packing foil, per 100 g of krembo there are 419 calories, 3.2 g protein, 64 g carbohydrates (of which 54 g are sugars); 16.7% Fats (of which 13.9% are poly-saturated fatty acids, less than 0.5% are trans fatty acids) and 67 mg sodium. [68]
Half-Moon cookie: United States (New York City; Utica, New York) Iced on one half with vanilla and on the other with chocolate as to resemble a half moon. Boortsog boorsoq, or bawyrsak: Central Asia: Made by deep-frying small pieces of a flattened dough. Often eaten as a dessert, with sugar, butter, or honey. Mongolians sometimes dip boortsog ...
The earliest evidence of commercial production is an 1819 advertisement for the Sally Lunn "cakes" sold by W. Needes of Bath, bread and biscuit maker to the Prince Regent. [ 5 ] Sally Lunns were mentioned together with muffins and crumpets by Charles Dickens in 1844 [ 13 ] in his novel The Chimes . [ 14 ]
However, it is more likely it was first manufactured by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans in 1861 following the recruitment of Jonathan Carr, one of the great biscuit makers of Carlisle. [7] In the United States, the Sunshine Biscuit Company for many years made a popular version of the Garibaldi with raisins which it called "Golden Fruit".
According to the American English dictionary Merriam-Webster, a cookie is a "small flat or slightly raised cake". [13] A biscuit is "any of various hard or crisp dry baked product" similar to the American English terms cracker or cookie , [ 12 ] or "a small quick bread made from dough that has been rolled out and cut or dropped from a spoon".
Leah Ettman from Nutrition Action has criticized the high-calorie count and fat content of supersized cookies, which are extra large cookies; she cites the Panera Kitchen Sink Cookie, a supersized chocolate chip cookie, which measures 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches in diameter and has 800 calories. [22]