These are addicting for sure, just going to warn you now. I had bought some massive supply of lavender from amazon and have just been trying to figure out how best to sure it. Cookies were obvious.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 vanilla bean, halved lengthwise and seeds scraped or 1 tsp vanilla paste
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tablespoon dried lavender, crushed w/ your fingers
Vanilla Glaze (optional)
2 cups powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons corn syrup
remaining vanilla seeds from fresh pod or 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
6-8 teaspoons milk
Coarse sugar + lavender for dusting
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
In a large bowl beat butter. Add granulated sugar, salt and 1/2 the vanilla seeds from the bean, or the 1 tsp vanilla paste if using. Mix until combined. Add flour and mix. Will be super crumbly. Stir in the crushed lavender. Form into a ball. It’s going to not feel like it will ever turn into a ball, but keep kneading. It really will form together.
Lightly flour your surface, roll the dough out. You can play with the thickness on these - to your own taste. Since these are cooked pretty quick, they don’t really change shape, so picture your final cookie as you roll out the dough and get to that thickness.
Using a cookie cutter of your choice. I use a 2” round cookie cutter. Cut into desired shapes. Place 1” apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Keep forming the scraps into a ball and repeat the roll and cookie cut.
Bake 8 minutes. Rotate pan. Bake 5 more minutes, until edges are firm. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
Optional Glazing - I do this for the holidays to dress them up.
In a bowl stir the powdered sugar, corn syrup, vanilla bean seeds or paste. Stir and then add milk 1 teaspoon at time to get to glazing consistency.
Dip cookies in glaze and sprinkle with coarse sugar and some crushed lavender. Let firm up.
