Crisp and buttery Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies with a hint of tea, with just 5-ingredients and an easy lemon glaze, they’re perfect for parties, tea time, or scarfing down all by yourself!
Earl Grey Cookies
These Earl Grey Cookies are an easy and delightful sweet treat that’s perfect for afternoon tea, cookie swaps, and the cookie jar at home!
Shortbread cookies and my favorite!
I know, I know… I say every cookie is my favorite… but I REALLY love cookies!
Shortbread Cookies have always been a weakness for me. They are just simple and pure deliciousness.
They’re just so buttery and addicting!
Matt and I will literally kill an entire box of Walker’s or Lorna Doone’s in one sitting, they’re just so addictive.
You might remember me mentioning that Matt and I lived off shortbread cookies for a day in Scotland and I wasn’t totally sad about it 😉
Earl Grey Cookies Are Easy And Cheap To Make!
I always thought they’d be difficult to make, but when I stumbled across this three-ingredient recipe from Dine & Dish, I was floored!
No Way!
Just three ingredients and a half hour?
That’s easier than a trip to the store and about $3.00 cheaper too!
With three ingredients, you’d think maybe they were lacking.
Nope, not at all.
These simple shortbread cookies are everything I dreamed they would be!
I decided to adapt the recipe a bit by adding Earl Grey Tea leaves and using unsalted butter and adding my own salt for more control over the flavor.
My version is just 5 ingredients (6 if you decide to go with the lemon glaze – highly recommended)!
Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies Are Delicious!
The end result is perfectly crisp shortbread cookies that are so buttery they almost melt in your mouth.
An essence of Earl Grey tea takes them to a whole new level of flavor and fun!
They’re so good, I’m not even willing to share, you’ll all just have to make them yourselves!
They’re just the thing if you’re looking for a slightly sweet cookie fix!
More Delicious Cookie Recipes:
- Vanilla Chai Shortbread Cookies
- Classic Sugar Cookies
- Irish Cream No Bake Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies
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This post was originally published in January 2015 and was updated in March 2019 with new photos.
Downton Abbey Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 bag Earl Grey tea leaves 2 bags can be used for a stronger flavor
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Blend the butter and earl grey tea leaves together and allow to sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours, longer is fine. If you are running short on time, this step can be skipped and the tea can be added with the powdered sugar. Just note that the flavor may not be as strong.
- Once the butter has finished setting. Preheat oven to 350° F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Cream the butter and tea mixture and powdered sugar in a large bowl or stand mixer.
- Add in the flour and salt. continue to mix until a soft dough forms. The mix will be dry and crumbly at first but will come together.
- Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface until it's 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut out cookies using a 2 in round cookie cutter.
- Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for 12 to 15 minutes or until the edges are golden brown in color.
Once cooled, whisk together the glaze ingredients and dip or drizzle the cookies as desired and place on wax paper to set.
Notes
- Slightly Adapted from Dine & Dish.
- If using a large loose leaf tea, run the tea through a food processor or use a pestle and mortar to ground it so it's finer.
- 1 cookie is 3 Weight Watchers SmartPoints.
- The longer these cookies sit, the more intense the flavor will get.
Nutrition
Ela says
Hi! II wanted to ask, how much is 1 bag of Earl grey leaves? 1 teabag? I have loose earl grey tea so I’m a bit confused. Thanks.
Rebecca Hubbell says
Hi Ela, each bag has about 1 teaspoon of finely ground tea.
Lori says
I made this recipe and it was a disaster. The cookies were the consistency of sand, crumbly and fell apart. No never came together as it should have. I followed all the instructions. Consider myself an experienced short bread baker having had many successes before.They had no flavor and were virtually tasteless. Do you have any suggestions as to what went wrong? I think the recipe had too much flour and not enough butter but perhaps you have some other advice.
Rebecca Hubbell says
Hi Lori, I’m not sure, we make this recipe a lot and it’s one of the most popular recipes on this site with rave reviews. It takes several minutes before the dough comes together, but then it should resemble a nice cookie dough that is easy to work with and the cookies should at all fall apart. The flavor builds over time which is why I either recommend letting the butter infuse beforehand or putting them in a tin to set after baking.
Kori says
Love these cookies! They were perfect with our lady grey tea!
Could you use the same recipe but omit the tea leaves for plain shortbread cookies? Or is there more in the recipe that you’d have to change?
Rebecca Hubbell says
Hi Kori,
You can use the same recipe!