Chewy Earl Grey Sugar Cookies

These cookies are absolutely amazing but I had to get rid of a star because I found that they got very hard and stale extremely quickly.

Made a gluten-free, dairy-free version of these with veggie sticks and Bob’s Red Mill 1:1 All-Purpose Flour for my wedding rehearsal dinner (for attendees with diet restrictions). They turned out so chewy and delicious everyone wanted the recipe!

I made these with dark brown sugar instead of light and with the zest of 1 orange (I didn't measure it) and they're so good. I made ~2 5/8 tablespoon balls (that's the cookie scoop I have) and I baked them for a total of 18 minutes. The cookies that spent 10 minutes on the top rack are a little harder than I'd like but the ones who spent those 10 minutes on the bottom rack are perfect.

Used less sugar than the recipe called for as I did not have any brown sugar on hand. Still came out a bit too sweet for my liking, but was still a fantastic cookie. Used lemon zest in place of the orange and I like the idea of another reader’s suggestion of cardamom in the rolling sugar. Plan to try this next time.

Really, really, good. The Earl Grey flavor adds complexity but doesn't taste exactly like a cup of tea. I used a large saucepan to melt the butter so I could use it as a mixing bowl by adding the other ingredients. One less item to clean. As written, this makes a very large cookie. Mine were about 1.5 TSBP and I used a heaping meaning tablespoon to help scoop into my hand, then rolled them into spheres.

Made these yesterday with GF flour blend and they turned out great!

Try with lemon zest in place of the tea, lemon paste for the vanilla, and add the lemon crumbles.

these came out great. I halved the recipe (butter and Flour and vanilla and baking soda and powder) and only used 0.5 cups of each sugar type. Only had lemon zest. Made cookies 35-40 g and cooked for 12 minutes. better if leave dough in fridge for awhile. I used Mortar and pestle to grind the earl grey tea and used full TBSP for half recipe. These are a huge hit!.

Wonderful flavor, but do not over bake. I think 12-13 minutes worked better for chewy cookies. Liked the ideas of doubling the zest, adding cardamom or using another tea.

These are really tasty cookies, with an interesting texture that’s somewhere between soft and crunchy. My only disappointment is that the earl grey flavour was barely there, very very subtle. May be due to the specific tea that I used, though.

The flavor was good, but the cookies were much too dry. I took them out at 14 minutes, but I would not cool the cookies on the sheets next time, but take them off immediately.

Made these yesterday and they were a huge hit in my household. Used blood orange zest. Added cardamom to the rolling sugar as someone else suggested. I used a 2 tbsp cookie scoop and baked the cookies for 15 min. Any more and they would’ve been over baked. The cookies harden a bit the next day btw!

Easy and tasty! Will make again for sure, perhaps reducing the amount of granulated sugar by 25g.

These are delicious. I forgot to set a timer and over baked them so they were a bit crunchy, and they’re STILL amazing. Can’t wait to give them another go and pull them out when they’re still chewy.

Very disappointed. The zest overwhelmed the tea flavour that i was looking forward to tasting, which in retrospect I perhaps shouldn't have been surprised by. I also didn't read the notes beforehand and cooked to the minimum time given in recipe (silly me?), resulting in very hard cookies and not chewy as billed. It's not a good recipe if 400 people have to repeatedly note how to fix it - not improve on it - fix it.