Earl Grey Tea Cookies
"These are definitely fancy cookies- they'd be great for gifts or Christmas, but they're definitely nice for just at home with a cup of tea. Great for tea lovers! They're really pretty, grainy looking, slightly crunchy cookies with a wonderful taste! The flavour is very unique- almost vanilla-almondy, although neither are part of the recipe. The Earl Grey is just smashing. This is a recipe I adapted from the Martha Stewart Website."
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
30 cookies
- Serves:
- 30
ingredients
- 1⁄2 - 2⁄3 cup sugar (white or brown)
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 3⁄4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine, at room temperature
- 3 pinches salt
- 1 egg
- 1⁄2 an orange, zest of (1 1/2-2 tsp.)
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons tazo earl grey tea leaves (about 4 bags)
directions
- First, mix up the flour, tea leaves, salt, and sugar.
- Using an electric mixer, add in the butter or margarine, and then add the egg and orange zest. The mixture should be moist but clumpy.
- Now, you can either make hand-formed cookies here, or follow the next 2 steps.
- Lightly flour a clean surface, and pat the dough into a circle 1/4" thick.
- Using cookie-cutters, cups or whatever, carefully cut out the cookies and place them on a greased or covered cookie sheet.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes until edges are lightly browned at 350ºF.
- Let cool and enjoy!
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I live on the west coast of Canada and love it here. I am an avid baker and cook, nature-lover, photographer-by-hobby, reader, runner.. yes, life is good. I love cooking pizza from scratch, concocting flavored sorbets, and baking cookies and cake. I am sort-of-known for my cake-baking skills: I've made them for my friends' surprise birthday parties, and for family members. I also made an E=MC2 shaped chocolate cake for physics class once. I love baking a cake based on the person's personality- cheese cake, coconut-peach cake, fruit and chocolate cake... it's fun. Anyway, that's a bit about me.
