Talking about lavender a few weeks back made me want to try something new. I buy dried lavender by the pound and just got my order in a few weeks ago as well. Something I’ve always wanted to try but hadn’t yet was cooking with dried lavender flowers.
The one thing that I’ve seen regularly when looking for lavender recipes, is cookies.
I had to give it a try. I read over many different recipes (a lot of which I had saved already, I’ve wanted to make these for a long time).
And, this is what I finally came up with.
Then place the log in the freezer for about 30 minutes or in the refrigerator for more than an hour until good and stiff.
Now if you want to dip them in coffee, this might not be a perfect idea.
Lavender Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1.5 Tablespoons raw local honey
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- small pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon dried lavender flowers
Instructions
- Cream together the butter, sugar, honey and vanilla.
- Combine the flour, salt and lavender flowers and mix well.
- Pour the flour mixture into the creamed mixture until well combined.
- Roll out onto a sheet of wax paper and roll into an approximately 1″ to 1.5″ log.
- If you want, flatten into a more square or rectangle shape.
- Put in the freezer for about 20-30 min or in the refrigerator for an hour or more. You want the dough to be firm.
- Cut the dough in about 1/4″ slices. You could probably roll it out and cut it into shapes if you wanted to.
- Put on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet at about 1-2″ apart.
- Cook in a preheated oven at 325 deg. for 15-20 min. Then cook until they turn a light golden brown.
- Makes 2 dozen cookies.
I actually made a small amount of lavender tea and then used that to make a glaze.
Glaze
Mix together 3 – 4 Tablespoons of powdered sugar with 3 teaspoons of lavender tea. You can adjust that as necessary for the thickness you prefer.
You could use a mixer to cream the butter-sugar mixture and then to mix in the flour. This recipe is really small enough, it was easy enough to use a short wooden spoon.
These things were really awesome. An amazing test for anything like this that I make is if my husband likes them. He’s a chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies and milk kind of guy.
And…he really liked them!!! For me that makes this a recipe card recipe that will stay on the side of my fridge for later use.
I hope you’ll give this a try or make your own version of it. If you do, please come back and let me know how it turned out.
I plan on making some different versions of this one in the future. One with lemon and one with slivered or chopped almonds. If you get there first, I hope you’ll come back and let me know what you did and how it turned out. I really want to hear how it worked.
Until next time — Health, Wealth & Blessings!!! ~Tracey
Never made these but have eaten them. Very good
It’s really an easy recipe, you should give it a try. Add a little bit of lemon juice. I found that tasted awesome too.