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    Published on: March 31, 2015 by Janice; Updated on: January 26, 2023 5 Comments

    Honey sugar cookies (cut-out cookies)

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    I have wanted to make sugar cookies with honey that tasted like honey, but obviously, I worried about a lot of things, like would a cutout hold its shape even if I replaced the granulated sugar with a liquid sweetener? The answer is yes! Learn how to make honey sugar cookies with this easy recipe!

    Button-shaped cookies - Honey flavoured cookies

    These cookies scream honey (and lavender if you are using it). Having munched my way through 3 test batches of these babies, I can honestly say that for the lavender honey cookies, it's best to bake them until the edges are just beginning to brown, whereas I thought the honey rye cookies tasted awesome when they were over-baked and quite coloured, bringing out the nuttiness in the butter and rye flour, and a deep, dark brûléed honey flavour that I quite liked.

    Honey lavender cookies
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    They are a little more tender when just baked through, and a little dryer when they are baked to a deeper colour. However you make them, these will work. If you aren't a fan of honey, you can stick with the more traditional sugar cookie dough for cutouts. If you want something with more chocolate and mix-ins, try these toffee chocolate coconut cookies.

    Honey cookies with lavender

    Easy decorating with stencils

    To stencil the tops of the cookies, I used powdered sugar and Williams-Sonoma Easter Linzer Cookie Cutters, similar to these cookie cutters on Amazon. I roughly taped all the gaps with regular scotch tape so that only the Easter shape would get stencilled on as you can see from my pictures. Stenciling baked goods is an easy alternative to decorating. I used this same technique to stencil the top of a cake with cookie crumbs.

    Easter honey cookies

    Serving suggestions

    You can also fill and sandwich these cookies together with jam (like I did for these jam-filled shortbread cookies. I recommend filling with any of these homemade preserves, which pair well with honey:

    • rhubarb jam
    • strawberry jam
    • blueberry jam
    • apricot jam
    • orange marmalade
    • grapefruit marmalade
    Easter honey cookies
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    Honey sugar cookies

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    These honey sugar cookie cutouts are sweetened with honey and flavoured with lavender. They would make great sandwich cookies with a little homemade jam or marmalade. 
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Keyword honey sugar cookies
    Prep Time 20 minutes
    Cook Time 12 minutes
    Total Time 32 minutes
    Servings 7 dozen
    Calories 26kcal
    Author Janice

    Ingredients

    • 188 grams (1½ cups) bleached all-purpose flour, or half rye flour, half all-purpose flour
    • 7.5 mL (1½ teaspoon) dried lavender, optional
    • 0.625 mL (⅛ teaspoon) Diamond Crystal fine kosher salt
    • 115 grams (½ cup) unsalted butter
    • 113 grams (¼ cups) wild flower honey

    Instructions

    • In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together the all-purpose flour, the lavender, and the salt.
    • Cut up the cold butter into pieces and drop it into the food processor. Pulse to form a fine crumble.
    • Add the honey and process just enough to form a dough ball. Transfer to plastic wrap and press out into a disk. Chill for 45 minutes in the fridge.
    • Preheat the oven to 325ºF. Roll the dough to ⅛" and cut it out with small 1 ½" cookie cutters or bigger ones. If making buttons, you can use the opening of a small piping tip to make the button holes.
    • Transfer to a parchment-lined cookie sheet and bake for about 11–12 minutes until the edges are golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.
    • You can stencil on Easter patterns with powdered sugar.
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    Notes

    • For this recipe, I baked with Stirling Creamery Churn 84 unsalted butter
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    Nutrition

    Calories: 26kcal


    I do my best to bake with the finest ingredients. Stirling Creamery, a Canadian company, has provided the butter for this post.

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    Comments

    1. Joanne B says

      March 31, 2015 at 12:50 pm

      This looks lovely. I will make them this weekend for my little niece and nephew. Thanks for all your hard work.

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      • Janice says

        March 31, 2015 at 1:07 pm

        Let me know how it goes!
        Little note: If you make larger cookies (and not button-sized cutouts), you'll probably get about 2.5 doz

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    2. Rose R says

      March 31, 2015 at 8:20 pm

      I just discovered your blog about 2 months ago. I was doing a search for examples of monkey cakes for my 1 year old's birthday. I came across your banana cake with the peanut butter and chocolate icings. That was one of the best cakes I have ever made, both in looks and taste. Since then I have been following your blog on my feedly and everything you make looks so scrumptious! My point is that your baking, photographing, and writing are not insignificant for me. Keep up the posts!

      Reply
    3. Teresa says

      April 01, 2015 at 9:29 pm

      Those cookies are awfully pretty. It's hard to understand why some people hit it big with seemingly little effort and others work very hard for much less recognition. Worrying isn't a burden that's been given out equally, either. I worry that my hybrid way of blogging doesn't resonate with people, but it's such a good creative outlet for me that I try to let it go. Your blog is lovely and useful, so I hope you can worry less about your impact and enjoy your results more.

      Reply
    4. Shareba says

      April 02, 2015 at 9:12 pm

      I think it's normal to worry about what we do as bloggers. There are so many people writing about the same things, creating the same recipes, doing pretty much the same work. Sometimes I wonder why I bother. It's not like that many people are reading my stuff anyhow!!

      That being said - I'd be really sad if you ever stopped blogging. And you'd probably start getting emails from me asking for recipes 🙂

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