Shortbread Lime Cookies Laced with Floral Earl Grey Tea

Shortbread Lime Cookies Laced with Floral Earl Grey Tea

The objective of this experiment is to see if tea mixed with shortbread dough will result in a pronounced taste of some sort. Result: no. If you add loose leaf tea to your cookie dough, you will not taste a difference. Especially if you added lime juice and lime zest to it. However, if you dip your cookies in melted white chocolate and then sprinkle ground tea on top, you might feel the special “accent” along with a fun crunch.

For the cookies I used this recipe posted by The Flavor Bender, but I didn’t make the cookies spicy (the cayenne was ommitted):

http://www.giraffescanbake.com/chocolate-chili-lime-shortbread-cookies