Chewy Earl Gray Sugar Cookies

Charlie

A delicate sugar cookie with strong notes of early gray tea and orange.

This recipe is adapted from the NYT Cooking version. Charlie modified it by browning the butter and then doubling the amount of earl gray tea to give it a stronger flavor. The orange zest is also doubled to help deepen the flavor, but adding juice is discouraged as it makes the dough too wet. Dusted with a light coating of sugar, and baked until light brown on the bottom and slightly golden on the edges.

Made about 80 cookies for our housewarming party, and all were eaten!