Thai Tea Cookies
There’s a word missing in this snack’s name on its label, yet it’s the most important one: butter. Thai Tea Butter Cookies? There, that’s better.
I picked up a package of these cookies at Thai Restaurant 2 because I maybe kinda sorta have a compulsion to buy homemade consumables from restaurants and bakeries to take home. The package of seven Thai Tea Cookies resting on the counter caught my eye as I browsed the selection of goods for sale. The cookies’ flavor intrigued me, definitely, and they were pretty. Good enough reasons for giving in to my compulsion, no?
The top-of-the-pile cookie.
And the second of the seven.
I’ve previously described some cookies as having a “firm crumble.”
What I meant by that then and mean by that now is that crumbs didn’t/don’t spew all over the place upon cookie breakage.
Chewing a mouthful of this cookie yields tastes of mostly butter and subtly of Thai tea. If I didn’t know Thai tea was an ingredient, I wouldn’t have guessed it. (The other listed ingredients are simply flour and milk.) The chocolate-chip center added a bitter brightness.
Next time? More butter, please. Or better yet, only butter. And uh, flour and milk.
I love tea cookies… of any kind! These look delicious though… But I agree, even at first glance I would just think they were butter cookies.
And I never knew what anybody meant with a firm or soft crumble! Thanks for explaining haha… does the word “crumb” mean the same thing?
Wei-Wei
I can eat them all at once!
Wei-Wei: Firm and soft crumble are Cindy-isms…I have no idea if anyone else uses the terms in the way I mean them.
Becky: I could do that, too, if they were the Traditional Butter Cookies.
Thai tea cookies sound SO devine! Too bad they didn’t taste it. I once bought a box of green tea butter cookies (because they were on sale and also, you know impulse-buying is so hard to resist. Especially if hungry. Or curious. Or you’re not trying to resist.), the cookies were SO butter flavored. Kind of to a fault. It left an aftertaste. (You know, if you eat dairy and your breath smells for it.)
I WANT ONE NOOWWWWWWWW