Pink Peppercorn Cookies are a type of buttery sugar cookies with the delicate bite of pink peppercorns with floral notes.
Pink Peppercorn Cookies
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
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Pink Peppercorn Cookies is my recipe of the day for the blogging event Spring Sweets Week. This is an annual event held by prominent food bloggers in association with various businesses who provide samples of the ingredients to bake with.
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Today I am sharing a recipe for a deliciously buttery sugar cookie. It is flavored with crushed pink peppercorns from Selefina.
Rather than being peppery hot as you might wonder, they have a mild bite similar to the peppery flavor of a gingersnap.
Except the flavor is pure buttery sugar cookie.
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Pink Peppercorn Cookies
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Pink Peppercorn Cookies
Pink Peppercorn Cookies
Equipment
- 1 cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon crushed pink peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 ounce jar pastel pink sanding sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Cream together the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until smooth.
- Stir in the egg and vanilla, mixing well.
- Add the peppercorns, baking soda, salt and flour, mixing into a smooth dough.
- Pour sanding sugar on a shallow plate.
- Use a cookie scoop to measure dough, rolling into a ball, then coating with sanding sugar.
- Place sugared dough piece on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- Flatten with a fork that has been dipped in sugar in a cross-hatch pattern.
- Continue with remaining dough.
- Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven.
- After five minutes out of the oven, continue cooling cookies on a wire rack.
Notes
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Love almond cookies and these with a spicy touch sound like a good duo! On my do try list!
Ooh, never thought to use pink peppercorn in something sweet! Bet it gives it a nice little zing!
I used those peppercorns in a sweet recipe too. They were perfect. Can’t wait to try these cookies.
I love that this is a sweet, buttery cookie with a bite.
I bet these cookies are amazing. Very clever way to use the peppercorn.
These cookies sound awesome! I bet that bite of pepper is such a great balance to the sweet.
I love that these peppercorns kick the flavor up a notch!
What a creative cookie! I love the surprise of the pink peppercorns!
Those pink peppercorns really add a lot of amazing flavor.
Original, tasty and so pretty! What a great way to use pink peppercorns!
Creative and delicious! Love those pink peppercorns
I love the peppercorn flavor in these cookies. Sign me up for a dozen please.