Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, simple sesame-scented matcha shortbread. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Simple Sesame-Scented Matcha Shortbread is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Simple Sesame-Scented Matcha Shortbread is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have simple sesame-scented matcha shortbread using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Simple Sesame-Scented Matcha Shortbread:
- Get 70 grams ○ Cake flour
- Prepare 20 grams ○ Almond flour
- Make ready 1 half 1 pinch ○ Salt
- Get 1 tsp ○ Matcha (sugar-free)
- Make ready 2 tsp Black sesame seeds
- Take 2 tsp White sesame seeds
- Prepare 50 grams Unsalted butter (or cultured unsalted butter)
- Get 25 grams Powdered sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp Heavy cream
- Prepare 1 Crystal sugar
Steps to make Simple Sesame-Scented Matcha Shortbread:
- Mix together the ○ ingredients and sift twice.
- Take a separate bowl, and put in the butter and sugar. Cream with an electric whisk (I quadrupled the recipe in the photo).
- Pour the heavy cream into Step 2 and combine well. Then add the sifted dry ingredients from Step 1, and the black and white sesame seeds. Mix well with a cutting motion to form a dough.
- Wrap in cellophane. Roll into a 3-4 diameter cylinder that's 18-20 cm long.
- Chill in the fridge for at least 3 hours. Alternatively, you can freeze the dough for future use at this stage (will last for up to 2 weeks).
- Once cooled, roll the dough in granulated sugar to coat and restore its cylindrical shape. Cut into 1 - 1.5cm thick slices.
- Bake in an oven preheated to 170℃ (160℃ for gas ovens) for 13–15 minutes. Adjust the baking time and temperature to your oven.
- Fresh from the oven Leave them to cool down on a wire rack, and store in an air-tight container to prevent them from going stale.
- The listed quantities yield a small number of cookies per batch, so you can try making a variety of different flavours at once. All the different colours look great together.
- For a cherry-blossom version, see. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/144200-cherry-blossom-scented-icebox-cookies
- For a chocolate version, see. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/144179-crunchy-chocolate-icebox-cookies
How to Boost Your Mood with Food
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So you see, you don’t need to eat junk food or foods that are terrible for you so you can feel better! Try several of these instead!
