Recipe
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
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Servings: 2 dozen
- Easy
Ingredients
- 2 sticks salted butter
- 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1 tablespoon Earl Grey tea leaves
- 2 cup flour
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Step 2
Cream butter and confectioner’s sugar in a large bowl until smooth.
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Step 3
Add in flour gradually and continue to mix.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Step 7
Bake on parchment paper lined baking sheet for 18-20 minutes or until edges are a golden brown.
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Recipe adapted from Sugar and Soul.
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