Your favourite small sweet treat to accompany tea or coffee

Homemade shortbread

A slice of French chocolate cake

Lightly toasted cinnamon babka or Mexican maria cookies for dipping.

Looks delicious, R2.

All depends...cookies, cake, or pie.

At Christmastime, I love a small piece of fruitcake or a small portion of plum pudding with brandy sauce.

Do not get me started!

Left over holiday rum fruitcake

No offense but brits are weird. Fruit cake, currants, plum pudding?

I'm always good with shortbread but my latest craving is a lemon pound cake.

Pasticiotti

[quote]Sometimes they were sold at my school tuck shop during recess.

Yikes. What school did you go to?

I'm partial to scones with currents in them, slathered with clotted cream and strawberry jam. Also, tea cakes (pound cake, Victoria sponge, Battenberg, etc.). During the holidays I make a fruit quick-bread with currents, candied orange, and lots and lots of brandy...

Afternoon tea is a Good Thing.

Trader Joe's Raspberry Star shortbread cookies. Very generous with the jam.

A Modjeska or two.

No-one in the UK says 'recess' - that's American. And what the hell tuck shop sells rock cakes? You'd have to be very ancient at the very least. At mine it was glorious penny sweets - you could get 100 fried eggs for £1 and I'm in my 40s.

OP is a strange troll. At least be authentic if you're going to make these things up.

Maybe OP is Canadian.

R10, I used to work with a person from Great Britain. We would have afternoon tea and McVittie's Digestives.

Biscoff cookies

R15 Now, that's authentic. Honestly, the majority of British people don't even have afternoon tea as in the whole cakes thing. But we do have tea and biscuits often.

A good edible with that stiff coffee I just made.

Cakes à la Madeleine! Lana definitely loves her green tea... *and* her dramatic contrasts. The soft, buttery texture and subtle sweetness of Les Madeleines are beautifully complemented by the earthy and slightly bitter notes of the Matcha green. Y-yyyyy... con un poquito de limón... your Madeleines are enhanced by the introduction of a surprisingly-zesty brightness that cuts right through the richness of both cakes and tea; creating a harmonious profile... where the refreshing acidity from the lemon elevates the overall experience while allowing the provocative umami characteristics of the Matcha to shine through. An enjoyable treat... appreciable during afternoon tea... or, as a light dessert after meals.

Double Stuf Oreos

I like seedcake. From the Time-Life British Cooking recipe.

My grandmother would have served Dundee cake.

A container of Crisco with a can of chocolate syrup poured on top.

just give me a spoon!

“Who used all of the Crisco?”

Mochi or banana bread (sweet and cakey with chocolate, not that gross bullshit that people butter)

Various, bit one I have in the kitchen at the moment (and often enough) is a Tarta de Santiago, a thin cake of pulverized almonds, butter, egg, and sugar that originates in Medieval Galicia, Spain.

It's at once dense and rich yet quite light, and only lightly sweet in taste, a perfect complement to coffee or tea.

I needed to educate you all on rock cakes and had to come up with an excuse to do it!

Damned Yorkshire meth.

What the hell is a "tuck shop"?

Never had mochi before. Something to try when I visit a Japanese bakery. r25

R9 an Australian school.

Tuck Shops are so called because that’s where “tucker” is sold. Tucker coming from the phrase to “tuck into” a meal.

They also sold buttered wedges of tea cake (like a big hot crossed bun, but iced with pink frosting and dried coconut) and buttered* baguette slices. Sometimes there would be Sara Lee chocolate or banana cake but they would be sold out in the first 5 minutes.

*By buttered I mean spread with margarine, like they would spend a penny on real butter.

[quote]They also sold buttered wedges of tea cake (like a big hot crossed bun, but iced with pink frosting and dried coconut)

Mmmmmmmmm... buttered and frosted cake... *drools*

[quote] No-one in the UK says 'recess' - that's American. And what the hell tuck shop sells rock cakes?

Now let us put our thinking caps on and consider whether or not there are other English-speaking places in the world other than the UK and America?

I thought a tuck shop whas where transvestites shopped.

What do they call recess in England?

Portuguese custard tarts because I baked a sleeve of them. Frozen from Costco, perfect crust, rich and eggy custard center. Eighteen for $12.99, I think. Twenty minutes in a 425f oven baking in their tiny little aluminum tart tins.

Just as they are for breakfast, or with strawberries or chocolate sauce (or both) for a fancy dessert.

My husbear’s chocolate starfish.

Monte Carlo biscuits

Ar the moment, the remaining mince pies or a piece of Christmas cake.

A slice of the Claxton fruitcake I get gifted every year.

What the hell is a “small” treat? I have no idea what everyone is talking about.

[quote]A slice of the Claxton fruitcake I get gifted every year.

How did you get anything out of that bitch Frieda?

Walker’s shortbread in any form

Rocky Mountain oysters

R34 Break time.

Well, whaddaya know. No sooner do I recommend Trader Joe's raspberry stars that they vanished from the shelves. Was there twice this week and no dice. The sign isn't there anymore.

Damn you Trader Joe’s!

I enjoyed a cookie that was an approximation of a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie snack cake.

[Quote] Well, whaddaya know. No sooner do I recommend Trader Joe's raspberry stars that they vanished from the shelves. Was there twice this week and no dice.

I bought them all because you recommended them. Then I threw them all in the trash. Ah ha ha-ha, LIBERAL!

I love a cuppa with a slice of Soreen with butter.

I hate the term "cuppa". A cup of tea is not difficult to say. I hate some of the "cute" terms for common items. Cuppa just sounds low class and trashy.

Beautiful Japanese confections.

Snickers-infused cheesecake.

Pfeffernusse - but they must be from last year so as to not disturb the new tin.

It will be hard as a fucking rock until it its scalding hot coffee.

You also need mean old pointy-headed aunties slurping up a cookie. You note the pointy heads because they all get perms. The remaining hair floats like a cloud above a pinnish dome. It’s ok, none of them will leave you anything.

UK here, . I remember when I was at school, some kids would keep their weekly lunch money and spend it on garbage from the tuck shop.

My Classical Studies teacher ran the tuck shop for years. He would buy items in bulk from a cash and carry to keep costs down.

r49 "Cuppa" is part of the Beatlemania vocabulary we picked up in early 1964.

Cranberry scones

Those are exquisite, r50. Would be hard to simply just eat them.

A Ghirardelli square. Sorry, I'm not as sophisticated as some of you.

Home made fruit scones. They take minutes and are much nicer than mass produced ones from a supermarket.