Perfect Mornings: Vanilla Shortbread Cookies

By khannaripu

Tea is a refreshing beverage that energizes and prepares us for our daily chores. There are several people who cannot start their day without a cup of tea and rightfully so, tea has ingredients that revitalizes our entire body. To munch something along with tea, we generally eat biscuits as they complement each other perfectly. Shortbread is a type of biscuit which originated in Scotland. It’s a mixture of flour, butter and white sugar and can be molded into several shapes, the traditional being one large circle divided into several segments.
Coming back to tea, this beverage comes in several variants. There is black tea, green tea, lemon tea, ginger tea and many more. There’s also earl grey tea, a blend of citrus flavor and oil extracted from the peel of bergamot orange. For our recipe, we will be focusing on the latter as combined with shortbread this duo makes for the perfect tea time. Preparing this at home is easy and you can invite friends over for evening tea with shortbread. We will be learning to prepare shortbread cookies and glazing it with Tetley’s earl grey vanilla tea. The outcome is amazing as these shortbread cookies transform into delicious munchkins for a perfect tea time snack.
So without wasting more time, let’s jump right into the shortbread cookies recipe.