Pots de crème à la lavande (Lavender Cream)

[mnfaure]

I'm always saying that I'm going to post recipes and then don't get around to it. Not this time, I decided.

The problem is that I usually want to do a fancy photo post, and I don't always feel like getting the camera out while I'm cooking. First, food stylist I am not. Second, baby underfoot. Third, lighting and tidy kitchen issues. Julien believes

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[asakiyume]

Such beautiful photos, and I *know* the finished result is delicious.

I make lavender shortbread using our lavender :-)

I do believe, also, in the deep friendship between lavender and chocolate!

[mnfaure]

Oh, lavender shortbread. Yum. Care to share your recipe?

Last year I made apricot jam with lavender. It was yummy. I don't know how it holds up to time, though, because we ate it rather quickly. :P

I love that icon, btw. I always think there is something magical going on in that bead of water.

[asakiyume]

Sure, I'd be glad to share it! I got it with a packet of lavender seeds, as I recall.

ingredients are:

1 1/2 cups (3/4 lb) butter (!)
2/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons chopped lavender florets
1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
2 1/3 cups flour
1/2 cup corn starch
1/4 tsp salt

for garnish, put a few lavender florets into a small jar of powdered sugar overnight, and sprinkle this on the cookies.

directions:

--preheat oven to 325 F
--cover baking sheet with brown paper
--cream butter, sugar, lavender, mint,
add flour, cornstarch, salt

... now, the directions say that next you chill it, then roll it out, then cut into squares and put it on the baking sheet. However, what *I* do, which, for me, works better, is to squash the dough right onto the baking sheet at this point and to not cut it until you take it out of the oven.

--bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the cookies are golden but not brown.
--take out of the oven, cool (and, if you've followed my way of doing it, at this point you cut the cookies.

I shall use my teapot icon to serve you another cup when you've finished yours

[mnfaure]

That sounds so yummy--lavender and mint!

Do you bake directly after pressing the dough onto the cookie sheet or do you still chill it a bit first? If I had enough butter I would bake them tonight!

Re: I shall use my teapot icon to serve you another cup when you've finished yours

[asakiyume]

I do, but you could try chilling them--that might not be a bad idea.