Cookies with cracks, or crinkles with blue tea

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   Prepare the starting products: take out the butter, wash the eggs, sift the flour with baking powder, sort out the blue tea flowers, divide the sugar into portions.

2. STEP 2

   

   Grind sugar (50 g) with clitoria flowers into powder; if desired, you can additionally sift the powder with crushed flowers through a fine sieve.

3. STEP 3

   

   Beat softened butter and flower-sugar powder with a mixer.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add eggs one at a time. Eggs should be at room temperature.

5. STEP 5

   

   In portions, in 2-3 stages, add flour, previously sifted with salt and baking powder.

6. STEP 6

   

   Knead the sticky dough. This should not bother you, everything is going according to plan! :) Cover with cling film in contact and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours, or preferably overnight.

7. STEP 7

   

   It will be easier to work with a well-rested dough.

8. STEP 8

   

   Form into balls weighing 25-30 g. Roll each ball generously in powdered sugar. Sometimes the balls are rolled first in sugar and then in powder to create a unique ornament.

9. STEP 9

   

   Place the blanks on a baking sheet lined with a baking mat (silicone, Teflon, etc.), keeping a distance: the cookies will increase significantly in size.

10. STEP 10

    

    Bake for approximately 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees.

11. STEP 11

    

    Check the cookies with a dry toothpick, leave on the baking sheet for 5-10 minutes, then remove from the baking sheet onto a wire rack and let cool completely.

12. STEP 12

    

    Excess powdered sugar can be removed, the special craquelure effect will not be affected.