LAVENDER SHORTBREAD COOKIES
These lavender shortbread cookies are fragrant, buttery, and mildly sweet. And they’re perfect to go with an afternoon tea break.
The recipe for these delicious cookies is pretty simple and doesn’t require many ingredients, and it is lower in both sodium and sugar content in consideration of your health. Also, the cool part is that these cookies are kidney-diet friendly too! If you have been advised to watch your sodium, potassium, and phosphorus intake, you can enjoy them with peace of mind! With quantity in moderation of course!
<INGREDIENTS> make ~5 dozens (depending on cut-out size)
4 cups all purpose flour
3 tablespoons dried lavender
2/3 teaspoon sea salt
1 lb (4 sticks or 16 oz) unsalted butter, room temperature
2/3 cup granulated sugar
<DIRECTIONS>
- Use a small knife and chop up the lavender flower buds into smaller pieces. Or, use a mortar and pestle to grind them up into almost powder form.
- Sift flour and sea salt in a bowl, and set aside.
- Place the room temperature butter in a mixer bowl. Beat the butter until fluffy, about 3-5 minutes, using a handheld mixer.
- Add sugar to the mixer bowl, continue to beat for about 2 minutes or fluffy.
- Add flour mixture and the chopped lavender buds to the mixer bowl and combine on low speed. While combining, scrape sides of the bowl with silicon spatula until flour and lavender are well incorporated and dough sticks together when gathered between fingers.
- Roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness and chill in refrigerator (~30 minutes) or freezer (~15 minutes) until firm texture.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cut out chilled dough in desired shapes with cookie cutters and transfer the cut-outs onto baking sheets. Once baking sheet is full of dough cut-outs, place in refrigerator to chill until firm. Gather the scraps and repeat process of rolling, cutting out shapes, and chilling.
- Place baking sheets in oven, bake about 8-9 minutes or until firm and edges of the cookies are just starting to brown.
- Cool completely, using wire rack if you have one or just simply cool the cookies on a flat surface. After cooling, store them in airtight containers at room temperature for up to 1-2 weeks. Enjoy!
Happy Eating! 🙂
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