Pine Needle Sugar Cookies is excerpted from "More Than Snow: A Guide to Winter Foraging with Recipes for Holiday Cookies" © 2022 by Martha Wright. Reproduced by permission of author. All rights reserved.
Pine Needle Sugar Cookies
Makes about four dozen cookies.
Foraged item: Pine needles
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter at room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar, plus 1/2 cup for rolling dough
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp lime flavoring, optional
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup pine needle powder
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Add egg and flavoring (if using), then mix until well-blended.
- Stir dry ingredients together and blend into creamed mixture until dough is well-mixed and not sticky.
- Shape dough into one-inch balls. Roll in sugar and place on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.
- Back at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet for three minutes then remove to wire racks.
Adapted from recipe by Carolyn Dugas at Fresh & Foraged.