4-Ingredient Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies

The only thing that I love more than snuggling up with a hot cup of tea is adding a plateful of cookies to that combination.

These tea-laced shortbread cookies are surprisingly easy to make and subtle in sweetness, but balanced in flavor. They get that satisfying, melt-in-your-mouth texture when dunked into a hot cup of tea or coffee, and also look pretty photogenic in a holiday tin (if you don’t eat them all yourself, that is).

4-Ingredient Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies

• Step 1

  Preheat oven to 350°F.

• Step 2

  Cream butter and confectioner’s sugar in a large bowl until smooth.

  

• Step 3

  Add in flour gradually and continue to mix. 

  

• Step 4

  Add in tea leaves and mix until soft dough forms. The mix will be crumbly and dry at first — be patient and wait for it to come together.

  

• Step 5

  Form balls of dough about the size of a quarter. Place on baking sheet and flatten into circles about ¼ inch in thickness.

  #SpoonTip: Using a cookie cutter about 2 cm in diameter will give cleaner edges.

  

• Step 6

  Garnish cookies with extra tea leaves or other toppings of your choosing. Here we’ve topped each cookie with some lavender bulbs.

  #SpoonTip: Experiment and pair different toppings with different tea flavors, like chocolate chips or caramel chips with chai tea leaves.

  

• Step 7

  Bake on parchment paper lined baking sheet for 18-20 minutes or until edges are a golden brown.