Last week, my new boss and I discovered that we are both tea lovers. I’ve realized that I don’t know too many sole tea drinkers like myself, so it’s an automatic topic of discussion when I meet them. He told me that he is kind of a “tea snob” and I said I might consider myself somewhat of a tea snob as well. He likes all sorts of teas that I have never heard of and prefers to drink loose tea. This is definitely to my advantage because in the office there is a variety of tea to choose from, a glass electric kettle, and some fancy tea infusers. My morning tea just stepped up a notch.
Due to myself being a tea (and cookie) lover, I had two separate friends send me the exact same recipe for these cute teabag cookies. They are simply…how do I put this… sooo “me”. They combine tea, chocolate, baking, cookies, and cute decorating- my favorite things. That being said, I just had to make them and unsurprisingly enough, I had the perfect occasion- a tea party.
I really like peanut butter and chocolate together, so instead of a traditional shortbread cookie, I swapped in a peanut butter shortbread cookie. Really, any type of shortbread cookie will do, so make them as you wish!
Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies
Recipe from Rosie’s Bakery Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book
Ingredients:
- 1 ¾ cup flour
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ sticks butter (12 tablespoons)
- 7 ½ tablespoons smooth peanut butter
- 5 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 6 lightly packed tablespoons brown sugar
- ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
Supplies needed for teabag cookies:
- 6 oz chocolate chips
- String
- Fun paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Frosting tip or small straw to cut a hole in cookies
Sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder in a small bowl. Set aside.
Cream the butter, peanut butter, sugars, and vanilla with an electric mixer until smooth. Add in the egg and mix. Now slowly add in the flour mixture. Mix on low speed until everything is smoothed.
Refrigerate at least 1-2 hours before rolling it out, or put it in the fridge for a few days like I did until you have time to do the tedious part.
When it’s time to roll them out and bake, be sure to cover your cutting board in flour. Roll the dough out just as you do when you are using cookie cutters for sugar cookies.
Since I didn’t have a rectangular cookie cutter, I just cut the tea bags out by hand. To do this, cut a few parallel lines in the width that you want the cookies, and then cut perpendicular for the length of the cookies.
Once you have the rectangular shape you want, trim a triangle off the top two edges to make it in the shape of a tea bag.
Now get out your frosting top or another circular cutting object (straw maybe?) and make a hole at the top where we will insert the string.
Bake at 300 degrees for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
Once cooled, we want to dip the bottom of the cookie in chocolate to make it look like there is some tea in our tea bag cookies! Either melt the chocolate in the microwave for about a minute, or melt it in a metal or glass bowl over simmering water. Just dip the bottom of the cookie into the melted chocolate and let it dry on wax paper (preferably overnight or put in the fridge to speed up the process). Once you have your finished cookies, all you need to do is put some string through the hole. Now cut a colorful piece of paper into a square, trangle, heart, etc and glue it to the ends of the string.
And lookie what we have here! These cookies sure do resemble that sacred little bag of tea I cherish every morning.
Want to make these cute teabag cookies? I have created a baking kit to make it easier for you! Check them out over on Etsy.
32 Responses
Just found your adorable cookies through TasteSpotting. They look fantastic! Hope they were perfect for your tea party.
thanks Shea! They were perfect- a little time consuming but worth it!
These are the cutest cookies ever!!! I’m reading this as I sip my tea actually, will you share what teas you’ve tried or love? I love Ahmad tea, and there are just too many loose teas to name!
thanks Abby! In the mornings, I usually have chai or english breakfast, but I did just try lion mountain keemun from peet’s and it’s really good! highly caffenated though. I also have this tea from a chinese tea room called blue tea (good for before bed) and strawberry red (for the afternoon), but I am not sure what the chinese name is for them. I’ve never tried Ahmad tea! I’ll have to go buy some. If you are ever in SF, I know a great place to go tea tasting!
What a creative idea! These would be great as giveaways at a tea-themed party! 🙂
thanks Elodie! They are perfect for that indeed- or just to eat at a tea party 🙂
Absolutely adorable!!! Such a cute idea – thanks soooooo much for sharing!
Thanks karolina!
So adorable! What a great idea – these are just so cute! 🙂
thanks sara! i can’t take credit for the idea but I am glad you like em 🙂
Well what type of tea did you and your boss drink with the cookies? Also, tell me the name of the glass tea kettle. Might need one of those too.
haha well the coworkers didn’t get lucky enough to try these ones 🙂 I’ll check out the name of the kettle tomorrow when I am in the office!
Awww, these are SO cute! What an awesome idea 🙂
Thanks Kiri!
These are so cute, might have to make some to go with my tea. Not quite a tea snob, but couldn’t live without it. Almost too cute to eat.
-Gina-
I love you. These are awesome.
These are adorable! My husband and I are tea drinkers as well. I will have to make these for him sometime just to make him smile.
Thanks for making my cookies! They look fantastic! And the peanut butter is such a great idea!
hugs! Kim @ Party Frosting!
Thanks for the great idea, Kim!
Thanks for the super cute idea!!! Made them for my mom for mother’s day since she is a huge “tea and cookies” lover! Put them in a beautiful tea cup with saucer for the gift. LOVE!!
Aw what a cute gift idea! I’m so glad you tried my recipe out. I hope she enjoyed them!
Hi! I love these!!! Can you tell me how many the recipe makes? I’ll be making them for a tea-party themed baby shower! Thank you!
Yes! I should update that on my post…depending on how big you make them, I would say it makes around 4 dozen. Let me know how they turn out!
Great! One more thing- it says Baking Powder in the recipe, but then later it says to add in Baking Soda… which did you use? Can’t wait to make these tonight! Thank you thank you!!
baking powder! oops! I am going to update as we speak 🙂
I just made a printable recipe- so click on it and that should make it easier!
It says salt in the ingredients, but in the recipe there’s no mention of it. What to do?
Also- very sweet idea.
ah sorry about that! I just revised it- salt should be mixed with the other dry ingredients (flour and baking powder). Happy baking!
I stumbled across your website while I was planning a tea party for my mother in-laws birthday. Your step by step instructions were perfect and easy to follow. As for the finished product, they were the hit of the party. Everyone loved how cute they turned out and how well they tasted. I will definitely make them again!!