Earl Grey Tea Cookies

these cookies were delicious!!! i got about 20 cookies per 'log' i added 1 teaspoon of water to help create the dough and found it came together nicely. i topped 1/2 the batch with a homemade apricot jam in the middle (and jam would do) and because its easter i added a cadbury Mini Egg to the middle of that.... fun festive and melt in your mouth! I used an fresh organic loose leaf...what beautiful purple flowers within. enjoy! You cant eat just one

I substituted the teaspoon of vanilla extract for a teaspoon of bergamot extract (the essence of earl gray tea) and the cookies came out tasting like earl gray shortbread cookies. Definitely an adult cookie to eat while drinking a nice cup of tea.

I have made these as part of my Christmas cookie assortment for the past several years. I have never had any trouble with the dough being crumbly, though I pulverize the tea leaves by themselves in my food processor and combine the dough in my KitchenAid mixer. I recommend using a high quality, fresh earl grey tea (not the dusty old bags of Lipton in the back of the cupboard). I always buy loose leaf tea from the organic herb supplier in my home town, but Teavana might be more reliable for most. I have also used Stash bagged tea. The flavor is more subtle than, say, a lemon shortbread, but I think that's what makes it good.

dear soundsdelicious, you really shouldn't spew accusations without checking your facts first. it makes you look bad. CrystalDanae, thank you for setting the record straight. i don't think it's plagiarism since the author cited where the recipe came from.

For some reason ... My dough was very crumbly. I added exactly what the recipes says + a few more teaspoons of water. It was still very crumbly and i couldn't even roll it into a log o-o. Am i doing something wrong?

Actually, the author that the food.com recipe recognized that it is from Real Simple. In the note from the author at the top of the recipe, it says, "From Real Simple (May 2005)" So, really, food.com plagiarized from Real Simple.

I created a profile just to call attention to the fact that this recipe is blatantly plagiarized from food.com. BOO Real Simple, you should know better: http://www.food.com/recipe/earl-grey-tea-cookies-119032

For those of you who felt that the recipe was lacking flavor, try a different brand of tea bag. Bigelow makes an Earl Grey tea that is considerably stronger and more flavorful than most. Also, I made a lemon glaze to lightly frost the cookies with, and they tasted incredible. The recipe for the glaze is as follows: * 1/4 cup butter melted * 2 tbs lemon juice * Enough confectioner's sugar to make a thick glaze I urge you to try the recipe again using these. It's well worth it.

I suggest pulverizing tea leaves in coffee grinder. As for me, I used Earl Grey Cream loose leave tea from Teavana, and that added very good flavor. I guess it depends on tea.

I like the cookie, but agree with GinnaP-no flavor, really. I'm thinking of trying again, but maybe using moistened tea leaves. It seems like that may bring out the flavor, but not change the dough texture too much.

I was disappointed. The recipe makes a perfectly fine shortbread cookie, crisp and buttery, but there was no flavor at all from the Earl Grey tea. I love the tea and used good tea in the recipe but it imparted no flavor at all. Actually, aside from the texture and visual effect all it added was something to get stuck in between my teeth!

I made these cookies and they didn't turn out at all! I followed all of the directions including chilling them in frig for a day but when I cooked them,they were really thin and greasy so had to just throw them out. I I will try to find a recipe that has an egg and some kind of leavening agent next time.

Very easy and very good if you like crispy cookies!

One pound of butter is two cups (4 sticks, one half cup each), so the recipe must need 1/2 pound of butter.

We buy butter in blocks. So, what is the equivalent in weight for 1 cup?

I made this recipe using spiced chi tea, also very good!

Thanks for the quick reply. Fat: 1 gram = 9 calories 27/44= sixty-one percent

Elena1: the serving size is 1 cookie, and the calories from fat should be 51% (the % sign isn't displaying -- we're working on it!)

Yeah, and no measurement for the sugar content, either. Tsk, tsk, Real Simple. Not good.

My mom made these cookies last Christmas and they were a huge hit. Delicious!

I'm guessing the calorie count is off on this?