Back in June I took a trip to the Texas Hill Country to see the Lavender Festival. Sadly due to the drought and excessive heat this year the lavender fields were dry and not blooming.Last week I was fortunate enough to travel to the Portland, Oregon area to visit a friend and got to see the most beautiful lavender fields. They were amazing. The area is so lush and I have never seen such beautiful flowers. It was a welcome escape from the horrible summer we are experiencing. The weather there was just wonderful and I enjoyed every minute. My friend is a superb cook and thought these cookies would be a good showcase for our lavender. These cookies are taken from a recipe of Penny McConnell from Penny's Pastries in Austin, Texas.
AMAZING SUGAR COOKIES
Butter Sugar Cookie Dough
1 cup butter, salted
1 cup granulated sugar (7 oz.)1 large egg
2 tablespoons whipping cream
2 tablespoons vanilla
1 teaspoon almond extract
3 cups (15 oz.) unbleached flour, unsifted
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
We added 2 teaspoons culinary lavender to these cookies.
Cookie Glaze
3 to 3-1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon flavoring (almond, orange, lemon, etc.) We used lavender syrup.
1/4 cup warm water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In mixing bowl with a wooden spoon or in a heavy-duty mixer, combine butter and sugar using low speed with mixer. Do not over mix. Add egg, whipping cream, vanilla and almond extract all at once to butter/sugar mixture. Mixture will probably look curdled. Mix just until combined.
In separate bowl, mix flour with baking powder. Add dry ingredients to liquid. Mix to form dough. Give dough a quick knead, then roll out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of about 1/4 inch. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Bake on parchment-lined sheets until set and very lightly browned around edges about 12 minutes. Cool before decorating. Mix up glaze and drizzle over cooled cookies.
This dough rolls out beautifully. A good tip is to use powdered sugar instead of flour to roll out to keep the cookies from tasting too doughy.
5 comments:
The lavender is gorgeous! Ugh, I want to visit, too!
Lavender remind me of France, so these cookies sound very French to me. They sound delicious! They use a lot of vanilla, don't they? Do they have a strong vanilla flavor?
Hey Em! No, they don't have a strong vanilla taste. I use Mexican vanilla and I don't use the almond flavoring. These roll so easily and don't stick at all.
I love lavendar and these cookies reming me of quintesenntial lavendar that is grown way up north near the Canadian border in washington state, we go and I buy soaps, and lavendar to make sachets, soaps etc..Yummee they look so yummee..will try baking them with my new stove after 33 years I am jazzed to get a new stove and sink and faucet, whoppee skoopee..mjs from the couv that is vancouver washington....
I love lavendar and these cookies reming me of quintesenntial lavendar that is grown way up north near the Canadian border in washington state, we go and I buy soaps, and lavendar to make sachets, soaps etc..Yummee they look so yummee..will try baking them with my new stove after 33 years I am jazzed to get a new stove and sink and faucet, whoppee skoopee..mjs from the couv that is vancouver washington....
I like the picture of the cookies, but what I really want to know is who took your new profile pic? It is fabulous. I love it!
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