Lavender Pudding Cookie Recipe - from A.E. Rought

We are big cookie eaters around here, and nothing brings the masses to the cookie jar like my Lavender Pudding Cookies. Lavender, you ask? Pudding?? Yup. together they make a wonderful, soft cookie with a sweet, herby taste that is just as clean as it is addicting.

Lavender Pudding Cookies

1 C butter

¼ C white sugar

¾ C brown sugar

• Cream together

1 4oz package Instant Vanilla Pudding (we like Cheesecake, too!)

• Blend into butter/sugar

2 eggs

• Mix into sugar/butter/pudding

2 ¼ C flour

1 tsp Baking powder

• Sift together. Stir into previous mix

2 Tablespoons Lavender buds

• fold in gently

BAKE 8 to 10 minutes @ 375.

(If you refrigerate the dough for at two hours, the cookies are soft and squishy.)

These make fabulous gifts to give, if your one of those Holiday bakers. Also great to server for tea parties, or with lemonade.

AE writes for Samhain Publishing, and you can find out more about AE and her books at http://www.aerought.com

 

  Slade and Kally

Running from pain—falling into love.
Letting Go of the Reins, Book 1
Weeks before Thanksgiving, Kally Jensen leaves her life in Michigan and her abusive fiancé behind. With her sister’s money, a teddy bear and bruises she cannot hide, she tries to disappear. She almost does—permanently—when icy roads force her car into a ditch, leaving her stranded and injured on a cattle ranch in Hulett, Wyoming.
Fate answers ex-police officer Slade Carlson’s unspoken need for change by delivering a hypothermic girl into his arms. Kally is like no call he’s worked before; her abuse-related injuries and unconscious cries for mercy pierce his lonely heart. Nursing Kally back to health and helping her see life beyond the pain gives Slade the purpose he’s been looking for.
Holding back his feelings until she can work through her own emotional pain will be the hardest thing he’s ever done. Yet new love blossoms like a Christmas Lily in the Wyoming winter.
Still, Slade’s love may not be enough to protect Kally when the shadows rise from her past…