Herbs and Parmesan shortbread crackers
Yield 24 crackers
Ingredients
- 200 gr flour
- 100 gr Parmesan, grated
- 120 gr butter, room temperature, cut in cubes
- 1 large egg yolk
- leaves of fresh rosemary, sage and lavender flowers
- pinch of salt, pepper
Instructions
- Put the flour, cheese, egg yolk & butter into a bowl, season with pinch of salt and lots of cracked pepper and use either a food processor or handheld mixer to combine the dough. Tip the crumby dough onto a sheet of waxed paper on the counter top and kneed by hand till it comes together. Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for minimum 45 minutes.
- Roll out a 1/4 of the dough in between 2 sheets of waxed paper, till about 0.5 cm thick, use a 4 cm cookie cutter to cut out circles. Gentle pat down the herb leaves and lavender flowers into the dough circles. Transfer to baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of the dough 1/4 at the time.
- Bake in pre-heated oven at 180 C for about 10 minutes. Let cool and serve with a lovely bubbly in the garden.
Notes
on www.leeksandhighheels.com by Sandra Slawinski
Recipe by Leeks and High Heels at https://leeksandhighheels.com/recipes/my-herbs-and-parmesan-shortbread-crackers/