Eat your tea

We love cooking with tea. Every year we make a simple shortbread with tea added. This year we made: matcha green tea, organic peppermint rooibos and organic Cha Cha Chai. Oh so good by themselves or with a cup of tea of course! Here's our recipe: Icebox Shortbread with Cha Cha Tea
Prep: 25 minutes Total: 1 hour 45 minutes

This recipe makes two logs of dough. The logs can be refrigerated for up to four days or frozen for up to three months (thaw before slicing and baking). To make two flavors with one recipe, divide the dough in half in step 1 before adding mix-ins (and use half the amounts given).
Ingredients
Makes 36.
• FOR THE SHORTBREAD
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for rolling
• 1 tablespoon *loose leaf tea ground finely (Peppermint Rooibos, Cha Cha Chai or Matcha)
Directions
1. With an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt until smooth. With mixer on low speed, add flour, mixing just until a dough forms. Stir in desired mix-ins.
2. Divide dough in half; place each half on a piece of floured waxed or parchment paper. With floured hands, gently roll each into a 1 1/2-inch-diameter log. Dividing evenly, sprinkle logs with desired coating if using, rolling log (to help coating adhere) and pressing in gently. Wrap logs tightly in the paper, and refrigerate until firm, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. (To store longer, wrap log and paper tightly with plastic wrap.)
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Unwrap logs; with a serrated knife, slice dough 3/8 inch thick (if dough crumbles, leave at room temperature 5 to 10 minutes). Arrange slices, about 1 inch apart, on baking sheets.
4. Bake until lightly golden around the edges, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on baking sheets 1 to 2 minutes; transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.