Old-fashioned Rose Drop Cookies - Weekend Recipe

Here is a sweet Easter Sunday treat you can make with your kids.  They are fun and use fresh roses from your garden.

Old Fashioned Rose Drop Cookies

1/2 cup butter or margarine

3 tablespoons finely minced fresh rose petals, organically grown

2/3 cup of sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups of flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon rose water

Cream together margarine and minced fresh rose petals. Add sugar and beat thoroughly.

Beat in eggs one at a time. Add rose water. Stir in flour previously mixed with baking

powder. Mix until smooth. Drop by tiny teaspoonfuls on a lightly greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes. Cookies should be lightly browned just at the edges.

Makes about 80 bite-size cookies.