Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, matcha cookies for matcha lovers. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook matcha cookies for matcha lovers using 5 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers:
- Make ready 140 grams ●White flour
- Make ready 15 grams ● Matcha
- Get 1 pinch ●Salt
- Take 100 grams Cake margarine (or unsalted butter)
- Take 70 grams Granulated sugar (or regular sugar)
Instructions to make Matcha Cookies for Matcha Lovers:
- 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!
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