Loose tea looks fancy, but the finer shreds in a cheap tea bag would work just as well.
Take 1 tablespoon of tea, then crush it up with a spoon or something like a crazy person. Dump in flour, sugar, powdered sugar, and salt....
....then butter, water, and vanilla until you get a nice little ball of dough. I may or may not have added yellow food coloring to make it look more chamomile-y. I'm not tellin.
Roll it out to 1/4 or 1/3 of an inch...
It stuck to the table way too much. Arrrhghh
Now you may ask me, why the maple leaf? What do tea cookies have to do with Canada? Well...
TFC hate cookies! (TFC= Toronto fc, MLS) I couldn't think of too much creative stuff to put on them, but hey. I'm excited for Columbus to win this Saturday. :D
OK! The recipe:
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon Chamomile Tea
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon water
1/2 cup butter(8 tbsp)
Preheat oven to 375. Crush up your tea leaves and mix it in with your dry ingredients. Add everything else until it makes a dough ball, then roll it out into about a 1/4 inch sheet. Use your cookie cutters, or just make your dough into a log you can keep in your fridge and slice off chunks when you want to bake just a few cookies. Bake on a pan (greased or parchment-lined) for 12 min, then decorate with whatever Toronto-hating slurs you can come up with.
Yeild: about 12 TFC hate cookies.
Oh, and garden update.........
All but one plant is dying or is already dead. Go blackeyed susan, go!
It stuck to the table way too much. ArrrhghhNow you may ask me, why the maple leaf? What do tea cookies have to do with Canada? Well...
TFC hate cookies! (TFC= Toronto fc, MLS) I couldn't think of too much creative stuff to put on them, but hey. I'm excited for Columbus to win this Saturday. :D
OK! The recipe:
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon Chamomile Tea
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon water
1/2 cup butter(8 tbsp)
Preheat oven to 375. Crush up your tea leaves and mix it in with your dry ingredients. Add everything else until it makes a dough ball, then roll it out into about a 1/4 inch sheet. Use your cookie cutters, or just make your dough into a log you can keep in your fridge and slice off chunks when you want to bake just a few cookies. Bake on a pan (greased or parchment-lined) for 12 min, then decorate with whatever Toronto-hating slurs you can come up with.
Yeild: about 12 TFC hate cookies.
Oh, and garden update.........
All but one plant is dying or is already dead. Go blackeyed susan, go!
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