Cookies with cracks, or crinkles with blue tea

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the initial products: get 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 clitoris 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 powdered sugar with a mixer.

4. Step 4:

   

   Enter the eggs one at a time. Eggs should be at room temperature.

5. Step 5:

   

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

6. Step 6:

   

   Knead the sticky dough. It shouldn't bother, everything is going according to plan! :) Cover with cling film in contact and remove in the cold for no more than 2-3 hours, and preferably overnight.

8. Step 7:

   

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

9. Step 8:

   

   Form 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.

10. Step 9:

    

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

11. Step 10:

    

    Bake for about 15 minutes, in a preheated oven to 180 degrees.

12. Step 11:

    

    Check cookies for a dry toothpick, leave on a baking sheet for 5-10 minutes, then remove from the baking sheet to the grill and allow to cool completely.

13. Step 12:

    

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