Lovers of green tea can experience the healthy benefits of drinking green tea while enjoying the delicious, slightly sweet and floral taste of this green rose tea. These long twisted leaves have been delicately scented with rose petals.

Brew tea at 180º - steep for 2 minutes.

Cracked Sugar Cookies with Rose Tea

Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter
3 tsp. Green Rose Congou tea
1 ¼ cups white sugar
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp cream of tartar

Directions:
Melt the butter in a saucepan on the stove over low heat. Add the tea leaves, cover, simmer over the lowest heat for 30 minutes, making sure that the butter/tea mixture does not burn. Strain out the leaves and allow to completely cool.

Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly grease cookie sheets.

Cream together the sugar and the tea butter. Beat in the egg yolks and vanilla extract. Add the flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Stir.

Form the dough into walnut size balls and place 2" apart on cookie sheet. Don't flatten. Bake 8-10 minutes, until tops are cracked and just turning color (watch that the bottoms don't burn).