Day 6 - Sweets / Dwarven realms Hobbits part... 3!!!
look as the local Hobbits Enjoyer at this point i'm just continuing the bit 😆 no actual headcanons, just tea and baked goods and vague associations ❤️
as your local Tea Georg and also as your local cookie dough technique opinion haver, today we are going to be baking a recipe of my own invention!!
London Fog Sugar Cookies
- preheat oven to 375°F
- cream 1 cup butter, softened at room temp
- into butter, beat 1 tsp vanilla extract and 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- into butter, beat about 6 tbsp (equivalent of 6 bags) of earl grey tea leaves. ideally, you should use an equal combination of blends: one blend should have stronger citrus notes, while the other should have stronger vanilla notes. this recipe was based around a 1:1 ratio of bigelow decaf earl grey and republic of tea vanilla earl greyer. other blends are fine and encouraged, especially fancy loose leaves!! a nice cream earl grey (ETS makes a lovely loose leaf cream earl grey that i have used in this!) makes for a good vanilla-forward blend to use in this! just smell your teas both separately AND together to be sure that they've got the right flavors and pair nicely.
- add 1 cup white sugar and 1/2 cup light brown sugar, beat until smooth and nicely combined
- add 2 eggs, one at a time
- optional: cut in ~1 tsp orange blossom honey. MUST be orange blossom honey!! the flavor profile you want is citrus, not sweet.
- add 2 1/4 cup flour, adjust up ~2 tbsp to correct for texture if necessary
- add 1 tsp baking soda
- add 1 tsp salt
- beat until smooth and homogenized
- scoop out into little balls onto a baking tray. into the oven with them!! for about 9 - 10 minutes.
- immediately upon removal from oven, drizzle with orange blossom honey (MUST BE ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY!!!), to taste.
- enjoy!!!!!!