Recipe: Orange Blossom Scented Cookies
This may be a bit strange, but I’m obsessed with flower
waters and floral foods in general. I already have rose water, rose tea, lavender
earl grey, dried violets for tea and candied violets for decoration and,
recently during my stay in London, I picked up Laduree’s Matilde tea which is orange blossom water
flavored. This, of course made me buy
orange blossom water (found at my local endian grocer) which is an ingredient
in some recipes from my laduree cook book. I wanted to start with a simple
recipe first so I made Orange Blossom Scented Butter Cookies.
The recipe I followed is from this website: www.yummly.com/recipe/Orange-scented-Butter-Cookies-626896
I used a half form of this recipe as followed (aka the
transcribed recipe below is half of the recipe shown on the original site); it
makes about 20 cookies:
·
125 grams butter (room
temperature) <- this is an
absolute must!
·
125 grams powdered
sugar
·
1/2 eggs (room
temperature) (about 2 Tablespoons of
beaten egg)
·
325 grams flour (sifted)
·
milk (splash) or, enough to bring the dough together
·
1/2 tsp orange
flower water
Preparation
1.
Mix all ingredients
together, form the dough into a ball, cover, and refrigerate 1 hour. (I found
it easiest to mix all the dry together, then mix in butter with my hands and
then add the flower water and then enough milk to make a dough form)
2.
Preheat the oven to
180 degrees Celsius. (which is about 355 Fahrenheit)
3.
Line a baking sheet
with parchment paper.
4.
Roll the ball out into
1/2 centimeter thickness and cut out shapes with your favorite cookie cutter.
Lay each cookie on the baking sheet.
5.
Bake 10 minutes until
golden. Let cool on a wire rack before enjoying.
At this point I tasted the cookies and found that they were too
plain; so I added a glaze. It includes:
About ½ c. powdered sugar, ½ tsp orange flower water and about 2
tsp water. You want to add just enough water to form a thick, but drizzable
paste. If it is too thin add more sugar because otherwise it will not dry. I
mixed this with a fork.
I find these cookies to have a very feint orange flower taste;
to make them to my liking I might add a full teaspoon of the water to the
cookies next time. They really are more “scented”! The glaze I also find is
really necessary because the cookies are also a bit dry. I find they taste good
but are improved to quite lovely with the addition of a nice cup of tea or a
chai latte.
Overall, I find this recipe to have been very successful! This
is a great way to introduce others to orange blossom flower water (my dad has
been converted; my mom still thinks it tastes like perfume) and are quite
tasty.
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