Jananas

My roommate picked up some lovely lavender tea this past weekend. I’m not a fan of floral teas, but it made me start thinking about shortbread. This afternoon I decided that it was high time to make some cookies.

First up, I steeped some lavender in hot water (just under a cup). I let it sit while I got distracted by doing other household things like laundry and putting away laundry.

I used a basic shortbread recipe.

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar (I used icing, as I wanted this to be more of a melt in your mouth type treat)

I mixed the butter and icing sugar and flour together by hand. At the very end, I added the loose lavender (not the liquid, which you’ll need to keep for a later step!) from the steeping. I rolled the entire mixed out into a log, wrapped it in parchment paper and refrigerated it.

Once it had cooled, I pulled it out and just sliced it into cookies. Way easier than rolling dough out and having to deal with the sticky and flour covered mess.

I laid the cookie rounds on parchment lined cookie sheets and baked them at a 300′ oven for 25-27 minutes (until brown).

The cookies on the own have just a hint of lavender. The real gem, though, is the lavender glaze I made for the top. I mixed about 1/4 cup of the liquid saved from steeping the lavender. To this I added enough icing sugar to thicken the tea up and whisked it until it was smooth. I spooned some of the glaze over each cookie to decorate and voila, lavender shortbread cookies! At the last minute I added some of the lavender tea to the glaze – its a little added touch that makes them delightfully perfect.

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