Lavender Tea Cookies with Frosting
  • 1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers
  • 1 cup butter at room temperature
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt


In a mortar, grind lavender flowers with the pestle. In a medium bowl, cream together ground lavender flowers, butter, sugar, vanilla extract, and lemon extract. Add flour and salt; mix until combined (dough should be soft but not sticky.) Refrigerate 1 to 2 hours or until dough is firm.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Remove dough from refrigerator. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough approximately 1/4-inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters and place onto ungreased cookie sheets. 

Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned around the edges. Remove from oven and cool on wire racks. When cool, frost with Lavender Frosting. Makes 2 dozen cookies.

Lavender Cookies

  • 1/2C. butter
  • 1/2 C. sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1T lavender blossoms( organic)
  • 1 1/2 C flour

Cream the butter and sugar, until smooth. Beat the egg and blend with the butter mixture. Mix in the dry ingredients, until smooth. Drop by spoonful onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake until lightly browned, about 18 minutes in a 350 degree oven. 

Remove to cooling racks at once and sprinkle with more lavender (optional 1 additional T).

Oatmeal Cookie Mix- Master batch
  • 2 1/2 C All Purpose Flour
  • 2 tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 2 C firmly packed Brown Sugar
  • 1 C Sugar
  • 1 1/2 C Vegetable Shortening ( to be shelf stable use Crisco) otherwise use butter and freeze this batch
  • 6 C Old Fashioned Oats, uncooked 

Stir together the flour, salt, and baking soda, Add the sugar and cut in the shortening, once well blended add the oats and stir together mix well.

This base, it makes 13 cups, can be stored in the fridge, or freezer if you prefer using butter, and will keep for up to 3 months. 


Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
  • 3 1/3 C of Homemade Oatmeal Cookie Mix
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla
  • 3 T water

Preheat oven to 350. Prepare greased cookie sheets. In med bowl combine all the ingredients. Mix with a fork about 1 min, until it forms a stiff dough. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets. Bake about 12 minutes or until lightly golden brown on the edges. Cool 1 minute on the cookie sheet before moving to a wire cooling rack.

Makes 3 dozen

Optional Variations: Can add 1/2 C semi sweet chocolate chips, chopped nuts, or 2 T lemon zest


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