These cookies are an adaption of the drink. Its basically a Earl Gray latte! I actually made it as I was making the cookies and it was so good and it made me so excited to make the cookies. So in the festive spirit for making these cookies I decided to add the recipe for London Fog Tea! Sorry no picture of my tea!
For the tea,
Ingredients:
1 tea bag of earl gray tea
1/2 cup milk (any kind or soy milk. I used soy milk)
1 TBSP sugar. (I used German rock sugar... about 5 pieces)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract.
Directions:
Brew the tea in a small amount of water. Once the tea has steeped for about 3- 5 minutes depending on how strong you like it add the water. You can also heat the milk or make it a cold drink. I made mine with warmed soy milk! Mix in the sugar and vanilla extract and enjoy! See, easy as pie!!!!
For the short bread cookies,
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
2/3 cup powdered sugar
1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 vanilla bean split and scraped
2 tbsp. Earl Grey Tea (about 3 tea bags)
Directions:
Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Add the vanilla, vanilla bean, and the tea. Add the flour and mix until the dough comes together. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least 30 mins. Pre-heat the oven to 350F. Roll out the dough to a little less then 1/4" on a well floured surface. Cut out desired shapes. Place on parchment lined baking sheets. Chill the cut cookies for at least 20 mins. before baking. Bake the cookies for about 12 mins. or until the edges are just barely brown. Cool on wire racks.
These cookies freeze well in an air tight container.
Side note: It was hard to find vanilla beans. I think I went to a couple of grocery stores but couldn't find them. If you live around a Lunds I would go there or you can go to the baking isle in a craft store... I didn't know about that until a few days ago but you can bye vanilla bean paste. If you go that rough then you'll need to know that it is roughly a TBSP of bean paste for on bean! This will come in handy later on if you like to bake a lot!
Well you guys already know how much I love this recipe!!! I couldn't help but include the drink recipe. I loved it so much that I had to include it. I tried this drink for the first time at a starbucks... Now normally I'm not one for starbucks but that was all I could get into... there was a huge line and I ventured in. The girl behind the counter said that I should try this because I wanted something that had Earl Gray tea in it. She was actually from Canada, so she made it for me and I couldn't get enough of it! I looked up the recipe when I got home and found the cookie recipe and the drink recipe! It was a wonderful thing! Now that its fall here in the crazy state of Minnesota, I can enjoy it warm! Before I was enjoying it cold and believe me that it is just as good then! The cookies have this butter taste mixed with the tea and its amazing! I loved that they weren't overly sweet and not super earl gray- ish! It just goes well with a nice cup of tea or any meal as your sweet treat! I hope you guys stay around for the next cookie I make! As I said before they are called Matcha green tea cookies! Yep, I'm in the mood for tea cookies and I hope you guys are too!
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