Cranberry Tea Cookies

So I have been talking to Saucy about how I would some day like to open my own tea shop.  I would love to have a place to share a cuppa and maybe even have little girls birthday tea parties!  So that is now added to my 10 year bucket list (am I truly crazier than I thought).  By then kids will be graduated and hubs will hopefully be out of the military.  So I have been doing a lot of research and looking for recipes that I could serve in a tea shop.  I found this one and remembered making it with my Aunt when I was little (probably where my tea obsession began).  So thank you Aunt Gladys for showing me the things girls should have been into instead of the mud and overalls I was...


Cranberry Tea Cookies
Makes 35-40 Cookies


2-4 oz sticks salted butter at room temperature (8 oz total)
1/2 cup sugar
2 T milk or cream
1 t vanilla
1/2 t salt
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 c chopped pecans
3/4 c chopped dried cranberries
1/4 c extra sugar

Cream butter and sugar til fluffy. Add milk and vanilla - mix. Add flour and salt - mix well.  It might seem crumbly at this point but if you keep blending it will come together eventually.  Add the cranberries and pecans.


Roll into 2 logs about 8 x 1 1/2".  Wrap and chill for 2 hours in the fridge.  I've also put them in the freezer for 30-60 minutes and this works the same way.  You just want it to be firm enough to cut without misshaping the round cookie.


Slice cookies about 1/4" thick.  Roll edges of cookie in sugar (if you want.  But I highly recommend!)