The tea gets pulverized first, with a mortar and pestle, or a rolling pin between sheets of parchment, or the flat side of a cheese mallet, until it is a fine powder that distributes evenly through the dough rather than sitting in clumps. The dough itself is straightforward: butter, flour, sugar, salt, and the tea, mixed and formed into a log, wrapped, and chilled for a few hours so it slices cleanly into rounds. A roll through turbinado sugar before slicing is optional and worth doing, it adds a crunch at the edges that bakes into the cookie and lingers.
Fifteen minutes in the oven, golden at the edges and pale in the center, cooled on a rack. About fifteen cookies, which is the right amount to have on hand for a few days alongside coffee, tea, or a glass of wine. The Earl Grey is subtle enough that non-tea drinkers will not identify it but will notice that something in the cookie is especially good.
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Key Ingredients in This Recipe
You’ll find the complete list of ingredients and exact quantities in the recipe below.
- Butter
- All-purpose flour
- Granulated sugar
- Earl grey tea
- Salt
- Turbinado sugar – optional
How To Make Earl Grey Sablés
Step 1 – Pulverize the earl grey tea into powder. If you don’t have a mortar and pestle, like me, place the tea between parchment paper and use your rolling pin until the tea turns to powder. Or use the flat side of a cheese mallet.
Step 2 – Prepare the dough by mixing the butter (room temperature, not soft or melted), flour, sugar, salt, tea.
Step 3 – When the dough is mixed, form a log with saran wrap and place this in the fridge for a few hours. I made a log of about 7 inches long for about 15 cookies. Shorter logs will obviously generate bigger cookies, but lower count.
Step 4 – Sprinkle some turbinado sugar (optional) on your counter and roll the log through the sugar, pressing down slightly. Cut cookies of about 1/4 inch thickness and place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake the cookies in a preheated oven of 350°F.
Step 5 – Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes until they are golden brown at the edges (center will be paler). Allow them to cool on a wire rack.
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Earl Grey Sablés
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- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 cup flour, + 1 tablespoon
- 1 teaspoon earl grey tea
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- turbinado sugar, optional
Instructions
- Preheated the oven of 350°F.
- Pulverize the earl grey tea into powder. (NOTE 1)
- Prepare the dough by mixing the butter (room temperature, not soft or melted), flour, sugar, salt, tea.
- When the dough is mixed, form a log with saran wrap and place this in the fridge for a few hours. (NOTE 2)
- Sprinkle some turbinado sugar (optional) on your counter and roll the log through the sugar, pressing down slightly. Cut cookies of about 1/4 inch thickness and place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes until they are golden brown at the edges (center will be paler). Allow them to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
- If you don’t have a mortar and pestle, place the tea between parchment paper and use your rolling pin until the tea turns to powder. Or use the flat side of a cheese mallet.
- I made a log of about 7 inches long for about 15 cookies. Shorter logs will obviously generate bigger cookies, but less cookies.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.