Victorian Lavender Cookies with Rose Water Icing

Hello there! Welcome back. So, I decided to try this recipe I found online from The Spice House. This was inspired by a cookie contest we had at work. I didn't want to bring one of forty varietites of chocolate chip or sugar cookies, so I searched online to find something truly unique. So, if you are brave enough to attempt this one, you are going to need some special ingredients, including dried lavender and rose water. I got these also from the Spice House's website, and their shipping is extremely quick. I highly recommend them. This recipe makes about 4 dozen. I made mine a little bigger, so I came out with about 3 dozen. You also will need 2 bowls: One for the cookie batter, and one for the frosting.

Prep time: 15 minutes
Makes: 4 dozen

Ingredients:
*Cookie mixture:
-1/2 cup of butter
-1 cup of sugar
-2 eggs
-1 tsp. of lavender, crushed
-1 1/2 cups of flour
-2 tsp. of baking powder
-1/4 tsp. salt
*Icing:
-2 cups of powdered sugar
-5 1/2 tsp. of water
-6 1/2 tsp. of rose water

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Mix the butter and sugar together.

3. Crush the dried lavender with the back of a spoon.

4. Mix the eggs, lavender, flour, baking powder, and salt into the butter/sugar mixture.

5. Roll dough into round shape (a little bigger than teaspoon size).

6. Bake for 10 minutes.

7. While the cookies bake, prepare the icing by mixing the powdered sugar with water and rose water.

8. After the cookies have cooled for about 10 minutes, drizzle the icing over them.

This recipe is interesting, to say the least! It's sweet, but it has a very different, distinct taste. Josh was kind enough to be my guinea pig for the recipe, and he remarked, "It tastes like a doughy flower." I remember a girl in my World History class in high school making rose cookies, and they were delicious--they weren't like these. We had done a unit on Egypt, and rose water is a pretty common ingredient in Egyptian bakery. I think my next batch will be more rose-ish and less lavenderesque. I will have a go at my own recipe sometime, and let you know how it turns out!