So, I finally made an effort and went to Nora's Natural Food store to pick up some lavender.
I looked through several different recipes and decided to use this one with a bit of adjustment
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/09/honey-lavender-shortbread-cookies-recipe.html
The recipe still needs a little bit of tweeking. I'm actually unsure if the saltiness was due to the lavender or if I added too much salt.
I'll post what I actually ended up doing when I finish tweeking the recipe.
On a whole, the lavender is a unique taste. I would adjust to have slightly less lavender.
If you don't over use lavender, it won't taste like you're eating perfume.
I will definitely try making these again but after some tweeks.
Recipe with minor tweeks thus far
Ingredients
2 Cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking poweder
2 tsp lavender (I liked a little bit less as lavender is very strong)
6 ounces of butter
2 tbsp honey
1/2 cup icing sugar
Grind lavender in a spice grinder, add some of the flour to the grinder if you find that it's not grinding well. I grind the lavender until it was fairly fine
Mix the flour, baking powder and lavender together in a medium size bowl
Cream the butter, honey and sugar. Beat until well mixed
Add the dry ingredients and mix until it's combined
Place onto parchment paper and roll it out (I like to use Gordan Ramsey's technique that he does for the beef wellington to make my roll, video 5:50 mark)
Place into fridge and wait for it to firm up.
Cut into 1/5 inch thick disks.
Cook for 15min or until light golden brown in a 350 degree F oven.
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