Pineapple Weed and Elderflower Cookies

Nothing like home made, comforting cookies with a hint of calming wild chamomile, floral elderflower and a zing of pineapple and citrus.

These are a must try if you've discovered the joys of pineapple weed and an excellent way to use up surplus elderflowers too (I don't know about you guys but I certainly had a glut of it this year!)

I enjoyed these cookies with a soy milk chai tea infused with rose petals, perfect cookie dipping cuppa! 

Ingredients:

2 eggs (beaten)

1/2 cup pineapple weed (finely chopped)

2 tablespoons elderflowers (taken off stems)

1 cup granulated sugar 

1/2 cup butter 

1 3/4 cup plain flour

Zest of 1 lemon (grated) 

Method: 

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (175 for fan ovens)
2. Melt butter in a pan or the microwave with your chopped up pineapple weed.
3. Cream together the sugar and butter.
4. Stir in flour, elderflowers, eggs and lemon zest until mixture is smooth.
5. Cover a baking tray with baking parchment and spoon mixture on a teaspoon at a time (make sure they are well spaced out).
6. Cook for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.

Pineapple Weed - Matricaria Discoidea

Elderflower - Sambucus Nigra