Recipe | Rose Petal Shortbread Biscuits & Tea

175g Plain Flour

125g Butter 

50g Caster sugar 

1 tsp Rose water

Rose petals 

Decoration 

Icing sugar 

Rose water 

Rose petals 

Equipment 

Scales

Bowl

Heart cutter 

Rolling pin 

Baking tray 

Parchment paper 

Method 

Preheat your oven to 180 (fan 160 or gas mark 4) 

1. Put in a bowl, flour, sugar and butter, adding the rose water and petals through mixing with your hands to form a dough.

2. Roll the dough out in one direction to the desired thickness and cut out hearts or other shape with the cutter, keep forming a new ball and rolling out the excess until you have none left, or very little. 

3. Flour a baking tray or line with parchment paper and lay the hearts on. 

4. Bake for 20 minutes, longer if you want a darker colour, but keep your eye on them! 

5. Take out of the oven and put on a cooling rack. Mix icing sugar with rose water and spoon onto the middle of the biscuits sprinkling with rose petals. 

Make a cup of tea and enjoy! I like to have a cup of lavender earl grey from my London Tea Club subscription!