I made these on January 31st. I went the whole month without cooking and realized I better get on it. Now I'm a quarter of the way through February and still have some cooking to do!
Anyway, here are my Tea Biscuits (and amazing crab plate):
Tea Biscuits
2/3 c unsalted butter
2/3 c sugar
1 egg, beaten
1/2 tsp choice of flavoring (vanilla, almond, etc)
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease cookie sheet. (You can also use parchment paper, that's what I do. It allows you to not clean cookie sheets when you're done!)
- In a large bowl, cream butter. Mixing constantly, gradually add sugar, then egg, then flavoring.
- Sift together dry ingredients (I'm lazy and just whisk them together.) and add to first mixture to make a firm dough.
- Roll dough out 1/2 inch thick. (I think mine ended up being a little thinner than this.) Shape biscuits with a cookie cutter and transfer to cookie sheet. Prick with a fork; sprinkle with sugar, if desired. (I wish I did do the sugar sprinkling, because it would have been pretty.) Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on wire racks.
These are super simple cookies. They ended up like a combination of shortbread and a sugar cookie. They were indeed good with tea! Steven unknowingly inspired me to use almond extract, which I really enjoyed. I love that you can use all kind of flavorings, because I have several that I don't get to use often. It will also change the cookie completely! A lemon flavoring would be really tasty with this recipe. The shape can be anything at all, large or small. With my heart cutter, I got about 15-18 cookies. You could easily use a small cutter to give you much more.
Let me know if you give them a try and how they turn out!
Tea quiero my friends! ;)
