Lavender shortbread
By: Gioconda Scott From: Gioconda Scott's Paradise Kitchen
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Lavender shortbread
- Prep time:
- 20 mins, plus softening and cooling
- Cook time:
- 30 mins
- Serves:
- 12
Home-made lavender sugar adds a delicious and subtle fragrance to shortbread biscuits in Gioconda Scott's appealing recipe
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Ingredients
- 115g Butter, softened
- 55g lavender sugar
- 150g plain flour, sifted
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 150°C/gas 2.2. In a mixing bowl, using a wooden spoon, cream together the butter and sugar until thoroughly blended.
3. Add the flour and mix in with your fingers into a soft dough.
4. Place the dough on a floured working surface and flatten down to 3mm thickness.
5. Using a biscuit cutter cut into shapes.
6. Place the shortbread shapes on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.
7. Bake for 20-30 minutes until pale golden and set. Remove, cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight tin until serving.
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View all comments (6)I made Lavender sugar by putting six lavender flower heads (pick them on a dry day) in a jam jar with 100g of caster sugar and leaving it for a few days to allow the sugar to take up the aroma. If you want to have flowers in the shortbread, just strip a few of the heads. Looks pretty. A very good reason to have lavender in your garden or just buy a small plant for the window sill.
i bought some lavender suger yesterday and i got it from waitrose hope this helps it cost 2.99 for a fairly big jar
Found a French lavender sirop in Conran's Bluebird supermarket Kings Road London cost about £4. Hope this helps
Bought some in South Africa! Haven't seen it in the uk. Looks like ordinary sugar with lavendar flowers only added to it
have a look at Lotte Duncan's recipe for Lavender almond hearts
How do you make or where do you buy lavendar sugar. For years I have been trying to get lavender essence to use in a chocolate fondant recipe I have without sucess. When I spotted the lavender shortbread I thought I might have cracked it! However, no instruction included in recipe to obtain the lavender sugar. Please Help!!!!