These are buttery, whole-wheat shortbread cookies – aromatic with rosewater, flecked with toasted nuts and dried rose petals. They’ve a crunchy dusting of sugar on high that gives a satisfying, candy tongue scratch, and are punctuated with black sesame. I am not going to lie – it took a couple of makes an attempt to nail them down, as a lot of you recognize, coping with floral flavors is usually a bit tough. However now, as written, they’re great!
Rose Shortbread Cookies: Inspiration
These buttery gems happened after I was tasked with bringing dessert to a good friend’s home. She was cooking a formidable Ottolenghi-inspired feast, and I assumed these could be a reasonably end, with the rose petals and all. Within the years since that dinner they’ve change into a part of my common shortbread repertoire, and I make them typically for particular events and holidays. I imply, they’re so pretty and engaging!
Baking with Flowers
The trick with cooking or baking with florals is determining how a lot is an excessive amount of, and the way little is just too little. For instance, with this shortbread recipe, the primary couple of makes an attempt I used dried rose petals solely, and quantity. However the taste received pushed round a bit, bullied and overpowered by the browning butter.
Second try? I gave the rose notes a lift by layering the petals within the dough with a splash of rose water. The dough instantly grew to become extra aromatic, balanced, and helped nail what I meant (and hoped for) from the beginning. I counsel utilizing a little bit of warning when baking with rose water, as a result of every bottle appears to fluctuate in energy, high quality, and scent. Strictly for reference, I am going to point out that I’ve been utilizing Nielsen-Massey Rose Water. For those who’re not sure in regards to the high quality or energy of your rose water, begin with half, and style the dough. You’ll be able to at all times alter with extra from there. Belief your senses :)!
These little shortbread cookies are good alongside different bite-sized treats on a post-dinner sweets board. I like to interrupt up bar of chocolate, embrace some salted caramels, possibly a couple of dates, and so on. Or you would do a cookie-only sampler, with a variety of tiny cookies. They’re nice for events and showers and boxed up as a present as effectively. Get pleasure from!
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