Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers. Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers When I was in junior-high, I tried adding matcha to the cookies I usually made plain, and it turned into my favorite cookie that I still bake even today!! The matcha flavor is relatively strong while it's only fairly sweet, so you can enjoy both the aroma and bitterness of the matcha. Today I challenged myself to make matcha cookies for the first time! See more ideas about Matcha cookies, Matcha, Matcha recipe. The flavor is as captivating as the color, with a hint of matcha green tea to compliment the natural almond essence.
And for those of you who think matcha is bitter, there's enough sugar in these cookies to negate that bitterness entirely.
My lifelong love for drinking green tea developed into an obsession of baking matcha cookies.
Here are some delicious green tea or matcha cookies recipes for green tea or matcha lovers.
You can have Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers using 5 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers
- You need 140 grams of ●White flour.
- Prepare 15 grams of ● Matcha.
- It's 1 pinch of ●Salt.
- You need 100 grams of Cake margarine (or unsalted butter).
- It's 70 grams of Granulated sugar (or regular sugar).
You can have it plain, with almond nuts, sesame seeds, chocolate rice or chips. Widely known as an excellent source of antioxidants, green tea slows down aging and aids in preventing heart disease, strokes and cancers. This shortbread includes matcha green tea powder, giving the cookies a distinct green color, fun for the kids and a fun way to give your dessert plate some color. And good news for matcha lovers!
Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers instructions
- Bring cake margarine to room temperature. Measure all ingredients. Combine ● ingredients (flour, matcha, salt) and sift..
- Put the margarine, now at room temperature, into a bowl and knead until it's slightly soft..
- Add all of the granulated sugar into the bowl from step 2. Mix well until everything turns white..
- Now using a spatula, add all sifted ingredients into the bowl. Mix roughly..
- If you mash the margarine as you mix, you'll get a nice result. When the dough looks like this, make one huge chunk and divide into 2 or 3 portions (roughly)..
- Put the dough onto a plastic wrap and shape into square sticks about 3cm in width. Place on a flat container if possible, and freeze for about 30 minutes to 1 hour to harden..
- Slice into 1cm thickness. When it's hard and frozen, it will break apart when you cut. Set aside in room temperature for a while for a better result..
- Align on a baking pan aligned with parchment paper and bake for about 15 minutes in a 180℃ preheated oven. Make sure to leave enough space because it will raise..
- Let it cool on the baking pan. Caution: Make sure not to burn it because that will destroy the aroma of matcha..
- Update: You can also sprinkle granulated sugar (unlisted) on the dough before you bake. It becomes nice and crunchy when it's baked..
- You can also add tea leaves like Western tea cookies. If you want texture, chop up the leaves. Also try with black tea and houjicha roasted tea..
- Here's how it looks like when you sprinkle granulated sugar. Also with green tea leaves. The tea leaves are actually inconspicuous, but add to the aroma..
- Even my 2-year-old son enjoys it. He loves matcha, just like me!.
You can now find every imaginable snacks and sweets available in matcha flavor. There are easier matcha cookie recipes out there than this. Add Matcha For Healthy Kick To Chocolate Chip Cookies. While these matcha cookies are a buttery shortbread version, there are many other matcha cookie recipe ideas. You can add small bits of dried fruit, nuts, seeds, candy, or mini-chocolate chips to this recipe for a little extra special taste.