Earl Grey Tea Cookies

Name: Earl Grey Tea Cookies
Yield: 22 to 24 cookies
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100 g Butter *softened; 1/4 cup Caster Sugar; 1 Egg Yolk; 2 Earl Grey Tea Bags; 1 cup (250 ml) Plain Flour

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

Melbourne, Australia

You can use your favourite tea leaves, but I like to use Earl Grey. The tea leaves should be finely ground, so tea bags would be the easiest to use. I added the contents of 2 tea bags to my ‘Easiest Sweet Shortcrust Pastry’ that can be a fantastic cookie dough. Shortbread dough is also good. These cookies don’t have the strong fragrance any more, but my kitchen was filled with the lovely smell while baking. I enjoy these cookies with Earl Grey Tea. Ahhh… so good.

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

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Ingredients

30 minutes plus cooling time

22 to 24 cookies

100 gButter *softened
1/4 cupCaster Sugar
1Egg Yolk
2Earl Grey Tea Bags
1 cup (250 ml)Plain Flour

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Steps

30 minutes plus cooling time

1

Mix softened Butter and Sugar until smooth. Add Egg Yolk and mix until creamy.
2

Add Plain Flour and the contents of Tea Bags, mix as you cut the butter mixture into Flour. Use your hands to bring the mixture together into dough.
3

Place the dough on a sheet of plastic warp, shape into a log, and wrap it. Refrigerate until firm. *Note: It might be easier to make 2 logs.
4

When it is firm, preheat oven to 170ºC. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Remove and discard the plastic wrap on the dough, slice into 8mm thick rounds.
5

Place on the prepared tray. Bake for 20 minutes and cool on a wire rack.