Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies

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I made the dough in advance and froze. Then I put slices in the oven during my dinner party so we had fresh warm cooies with our tea. Everyone loved them.

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WOW, please check the professional culinary baking text book 101. The shortbread recipe is basically identical.... so does that mean every person who has gone to culinary school is plagarizing recipies? Almost every recipe you learn in school is a "base" on which you build. I am shocked that the comment was even made that this recipe was directly taken from Martha Stewart. I can quarantee you she did not invent shortbread, nor would she ever claim she did.

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Has anyone of you ever read/used/borrowed a recipe that was totally and unequivocally original? If you think this so, you are sadly mistaken. This young woman is a delight and serves a large portion of the FN audience looking for good, quick recipes. I'd take her over many of the others any day and believe me, their recipes are NOT all original and developed entirely by themselves. There's nothing new under the sun, folks.

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I tried the recipe as done and it was great.

I've done a sugar-free version, substituting Splenda for the confectioners' sugar. It was great.

I tried further substituting other teas for the Earl Grey. STILL great.

I even had some of my friends who don't normally eat sugar-free foods try the cookies. THEY wanted the recipe!

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I've never even had Earl Grey tea before but I saw her make these on tv and they looked so good I had to try. Mine didn't turn out as pretty as hers as I had some trouble figuring out how to roll it into a log, but they tasted really good. I cooked them a bit short than the required time because I have braces at the moment and soft foods work better. I ate three of them after they came out of the oven and one a day later, the taste was very different but equally yummy. Kind of spicy.
And if this recipe is plagiarism then it would plagiarism when anyone published a variance on sugar cookies too, geez.

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this is an easy and delightful cookie to make.
people should quit being so petty. there is nothing new
under the sun. i once made up a mussel and pesto dish and was so proud of my "original" idea. about three
months later, i found the recipe in an 18th century cook
book. i was devastated.

M. Stewart has "borrowed"' a lot of stuff.
So, get off of Claire's case. She is fun and vivacious
and brings some new ideas....and she has never
gone to prison.

how many variations can you do on coq au vin, fettucine
alfredo or grilled rib eye? give the kid a break.

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These cookies were great. I didn't have any Earl Grey so I used blackcurrant tea instead. The blackcurrant tea gave the cookies a faint berry taste and smell. My guests devoured the tray of cookies in five minutes flat trying to figure out what the elusive taste/smell was.

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I've been looking for a shortbread to make and this one was delicious! I don't like Earl Grey Tea but had some Lipton's Blueberry & White Tea on hand. These were so fragrant and delicious! My 3 yr old couldn't keep her hands off of them!

Thanks Claire - I love your show (despite other angry comments recipes are to be tweaked and substituted to suit your families likes and dislikes. In fact, isn't that how most of our own recipes came about, by trial and error and even by accident?

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Was this recipe published for profit? In fact, I got it for free last night right on this site.

If you do a search for "meatloaf" "chicken enchiladas" or "chocolate chip cookies" you'll get 25+ choices just from food network chefs alone. The point isn't that Claire Robinson invented this recipe, or even claimed to, the point is that she put it on her show and showed us how to do it, in conjunction with a whole menu of french food.

Just as Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Alton Brown, and Emeril all put their own spin on "meatloaf" and show us their particular technique in making it, Claire used vanilla and put her own spin on these shortbread tea cookies. Martha uses more butter and orange zest.

For my review: these are phenomenally easy and delicious cookies. everyone loved them, and I made people guess what the "secret ingredient" was. It was a hoot!

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Re: comments about copying recipes, or plagarism. It is one thing to change a recipe at home, or pass an existing recipe on to your friends. Of course, that's fine. But that's not what is happening here. Food Network and Ms. Robinson are publishing this recipe for profit. If it was in fact copied from Martha Stewart, or any other site, this is stealing intellectual property. If your kids copy or plagarize a paper in school, they are punished severely. If a journalist or author copies or plagarizes another's work, they are fired, and their work is taken off the market. Plagarism is serious. I don't know whether Ms. Robinson copied this recipe or not, and I'm not saying she did, but I do know that plagarism is wrong, even with a recipe. (See Cindy McCain for what can happen with a stolen cookie recipe!