May is the month of flowers. So I thought I'd share with you this cookie recipe whose ingredients include dried lavender flowers! No need to tell you how delicate they are. They are also perfect as a last-minute gift now that Mother's Day is here: Give them to your mom and abuelita, your friends, and even your children's teachers—I promise everybody will adore you!
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If you don't have a cookie press, go and get one. They are very easy to use, and you can make cookies like a pro. If not, you can make dough cylinders and slice the cookies with a knife. You can also roll out the dough and cut it with your favorite cookie cutters.
Lavender Cookies (Yields 6 dozen cookies)
Ingredients:
1¼ tablespoons dried lavender flowers
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
2½ cups unbleached flower
1¼ tablespoons lemon zest finely grated
Preparation:
- Place the lavender and ¼ cup sugar in the small bowl of a food processor and pulse six times. Reserve.
- In the big bowl of the food processor, place the butter with the remaining sugar, and process into dough using the dough blade.
- Add the eggs one at a time and keep processing.
- Add the flour and lavendar-sugar mix and process.
- Add the lemon zest and process.
- Make a ball with the dough, wrap with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Put the dough in a cookie press and press on a baking mat (or baking sheet), leaving 1 inch between cookies.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Let the cookies completely cool on a cooling rack. Store in an air-tight container.
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