Lavender Cookies

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Dried lavender leaves can be added to fatty meats and vegetables and lavender sprigs are handy at the grill, thrown into the fire because smoke compartmentation gives baked dishes a pleasant aroma. I, of course, think the most intriguing use is in a lavender pastry

The sheer beauty of small flowers and lilac color decoration is perfect for desserts and pastries, and to keep their advantages for longer, the flowers can be candied, like violets.

Dried flowers, in turn, can be added to any sweetener, when you want to get a delicate aroma of lavender. I have an idea for a homemade lavender sugar As an experiment I decided to examine whether the dried flowers of lavender are able flavor sugar crystals like vanilla. You can always experiment but in the case of lavender in the kitchen is one rule - you have to use it sparingly and rather gently. Otherwise, you get the taste of soap

Lavender cookies:

3/4 cup granulated sugar,
1 teaspoon of dried lavender,
140 g butter,
1 teaspoon lemon peel grazed,
1 and 3/4 cup flour,
3 egg yolks,
a pinch of salt,
about half a cup of fine crystal sugar cookies to rounding. Mix the icing sugar with lavender. Add the butter, lemon zest and salt and mix until all the butter will become white and fluffy. Add flour and mix. Finally, add egg yolks and mix until combine the cake. Form dough into a ball and place in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Roll out the dough to about 1.5 cm thick and cut out cookies. Each cake coat both sides with sugar crystals. Bake for about 15 minutes. the browning edges.