Taste Bud "Tea"-ser

Chocolate Earl Grey Cookies
3 Dozen Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 1/2 tablespoons Earl Grey tea, finely ground in a coffee grinder, food chopper or food processor
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Cream together butter, sugar, and tea. Beat in vanilla, then eggs, one at a time until incorporated. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder; fold into egg mixture until just mixed.
3. Drop cookies by rounded tablespoonfuls onto a ungreased cookie sheets.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes.