Hello, today.
This week was inspired by…dinner with a new friend on face plates. Pea pasta with lemon.
This week was inspired by… making avocado crab toast with Jill.
This week was inspired by … this mama, in a chevron skirt with two babies. I love how close her baby boy is playing next to her skirt. She totally has a little baby in her arms too. I like this mama. I have a soft spot for Mr. Potato Head. I want this to be me eventually (the mama… not the potato head).
I can’t think of one good reason not to put dried flowers and raw sugar into cookies.
Something feels so utterly refined and pleasingly natural about this combination.
A quick zip-a-zip in the spice grinder turns raw sugar into a powder, and lavender into a fragrant chop.
I think this is my favorite part of cut-out shortbread cookies. The scraps.
Perfect for sneaking dough bites.
These cookies bake up into simple, buttery, florally frangrant, sweet bites. I love the use of raw sugar.. it adds a really nice depth, but you can use granulated sugar if you don’t have raw on hand.
These cookies would be dreamy with earl grey tea, honey ice cream, or a cup of cold milk.
I like to stack them tall and eat far too many. You know…
Lavender Shortbread Cookies
adapted slightly from Party Like a Culinista
makes about 50 cookies
1 tablespoon dried lavender blossoms
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon raw turbinado sugar (you can also use granulated sugar)
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 eggs, beaten (for egg wash)
extra sugar for sprinkling on top
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and salt. Set aside.
In a small spice grinder (I use my cleaned out coffee grinder) to grind up 1 tablespoon lavender and 1 tablespoon sugar. Grind it up! You could also use a mortar and pestle to grind the sugar and lavender together.
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment add butter, ground lavender mixture, and remaining 1/2 cup sugar. Cream on medium speed until slightly more pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. There will still be raw sugar bits floating around. That’s fine. Stop the mixer, add the flour. Mix on low speed until dough comes together. The dough will be crumbly, then begin to form when it continues to mix. Dump dough mixture out onto a clean surface and form into a ball with your hands. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
Divide refrigerated dough into quarters. On a lightly floured work surface, roll dough out to a 1/4-inch thickness. Use a 1 1/2-inch round cookie cutter to cut cookies, or use a pizza cutter to slice cookies into squares. Use a fork to prick cookies. Brush very lightly with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar. Refrigerate cookies while oven preheats.
Place racks in the center and upper third of the oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. When oven is preheated, bake cookies for 8 to 11 minutes, until just browned around the edges. Remove from oven. Allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
Cookies last, in an airtight container at room temprature, for up to 4 days.
Chelsea Jamison
These look delicious! I love cooking with lavender. Thanks for the recipe, I will try it soon!
Brooke @ BittersweetBrooke
I love the idea of eating lavender cookies with a good cup of tea with a friend. I totally want to be that hip and sophisticated, and baking with lavender might just be the first step!
elisha ;)
these look oh-so-lovely. my brain wants one, but my newly preggo belly does not…what’s up with constantly being hungry yet not wanting to eat all the things you normally love? *sigh*
chulita
I love your inventive recipes,all that I have tried have the definite yum factor,and you just seem so fun.Thanks
Louise
Ooh, I’ve been looking for the perfect cookie to make for my little one’s fourth birthday next month. And I think these are it.
Trina
Am I too late? Is it already Monday on the West Coast!? Shortbread always melts the heart. Seriously :) Love the Lavenderness of it!
Daphne
We have lavender at home, but never seriously thought about eating it…until this post!
frances g.
I love the cover photo of these ladies! They look like they know how to have a damn good time.
Cristina
Joy, I think you just enabled an unhealthy obsession with lavender. I went out and bought some, for my lavender plant had apparently died/disappeared/got up and left over the summer…but I ended up getting a quart sized bag full of it. Oh goodness!
Victoria Lane (Lauryl's Mum)
Oh, I do so hope that I am not too late. I adore lavender….as well as your charming blog!
Anne
It’s still Sunday, right? Where I live, and where you live too!
Jane
I will totally invite you to my dinner party if I win the book :)
Trish
My favorite ice cream is fresh lavender, and I love lavender iced tea, and now I’m DYING to try these lavender short bread cookies! CAN.NOT. WAIT! Thank you!
tammy
those cookies sound amazing! =)
Dawn
I’ve made shortbread cookies with sage (they were yummy), so I would totally be willing to try lavender.
Hey, do you know any recipes with rose hips? I’ve got bushes full of them. I’ve always figured I’d attempt tea, but now I’m envisioning rose shortbread cookies.