Melody Teh

Food & Wine

Lavender biscuits

Lavender biscuits

Great for relaxing, the sweet scent of these lavender biscuits will also delight your nose as well as your tummy.

Ingredients:

  • 1 tablespoon of lavender flowers, without stalks
  • 175g of self-raising flour
  • 50g of caster sugar
  • Salt
  • 130g of butter
  • 25g of semolina

Method:

  1. In a food processor, process lavender flowers and flour.
  2. Add a pinch of salt, semolina, sugar, and butter and process, forming dough.
  3. Flatten into a disk shape, wrap, and cover with cling wrap to chill for half an hour.
  4. After preheating your oven to 180°C, line two baking trays.
  5. Put the dough between two sheets of cling wrap and roll until a thickness of four-mm.
  6. Using a cookie cutter, stamp dough into biscuit shapes.
  7. Combine and reroll any excess dough to use it all.
  8. Put biscuit shapes on trays leaving space in between.
  9. Bake for 15 to 30 minutes or until lightly golden. Let cool. Serve.

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