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Chocolate Dipped Lavender Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Your favorite sugar cookie dough, enough for 18 cookies
1 Tbsp of lavender
1 cup of melting chocolates
Instructions
Make your dough as usual. Don’t worry, I won’t judge you if you get your base dough from a tube. Just be aware that you are going to have to fuss with it a bit in order to get this right, so you may still need to roll it out.
Chop up the lavender buds with a big kitchen knife. Or if you want to be lazy, give it three to four pulses in your food processor/blender. Then mix them into the dough.
Slice into tall round cookies. About half the diameter, and twice the height of a break and bake style cookie. Bake them as usual.
Once the cookies have cooled, temper your chocolate and dip only the bottom third and set them some where to cool unless you plan to decorate. If you are going to add sprinkles, nuts (crushed and toasted pine nuts would be great) or sanding sugars would be great choices. Just be sure to dip them while the chocolate is wet.

