Lavender Sugar Cookies

A soft, beautiful cookie. Perfect for a special springtime treat!

• Ready In: 25 mins
• Yields: 30 cookies

Ingredients

• Cookies

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup powdered sugar
• 1⁄2 cup canola oil
• 1  large egg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 2  cups flour
• 3  tablespoons  fresh  lavender flowers (about 16 stems with flowers pulled off)

• Topping

• 1⁄4 cup  coarse sugar (colored is nice!)
• 1 -2  tablespoon  fresh  lavender flowers

Directions

1. Cream the sugar, butter, powdered sugar and canola oil.
2. Mix in the egg and vanilla.
3. In a separate bowl, stir together the baking soda, cream of tartar, flour and lavender flowers.
4. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients a cup at a time.
5. Chill for 2 hours.
6. Drop 1 or 2 inch balls onto a cookie sheet.
7. Bake for 10 minutes in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven.
8. Immediately after taking out, sprinkle sugar and lavendar flowers on top of each cookie.