I love green tea flavored desserts! I wanted to make green tea ice cream, but since it’s winter, I decided to make green tea cookies and they were a hit over the holidays! I used Matcha Green Tea Powder which has a sweeter, deeper flavor than other green tea powders. Use unsalted butter (salted butter will give unnecessary salty taste). This dessert goes well with warm tea or coffee.

Ingredients:

1/2 tablespoon Matcha Green Tea Powder
1/4 cup Unsalted Butter
2 1/2 tablespoon Powdered Sugar
1 oz Almonds (Raw, whole)
Flour a little less than 1/2 cup, about 3oz
(Cake flour preferred, but all-purpose flour works fine)
Powdered sugar to dust

Makes 8 cookies

Cooking Instructions:

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Put almonds on a piece of foil and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Take almonds out, but leave oven on for the cookie. Finely grind the almonds in a food processor. There can be small pieces. Mix the ground almonds with flour and put aside.

Step 2: Mash cold butter in a large mixing bowl until slightly creamy. Using warm butter will cause the texture of the cookie to be cakey. When butter is creamy, add powdered sugar and mix well.

Step 3: Add Matcha Powder to the mixture and mix again.

Step 4: Add the almond flour mixture and mix until mixture is green and a messy dough forms. Knead the dough for a minute or until clean.

Step 5: Divide the dough into 8 pieces and roll each piece into a ball. Put each ball on a cookie sheet over a flat baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes (I bake them for 22 minutes exactly).

Step 6: Cool cookies on wire rack and dust them with powdered sugar to serve.

This post is tagged cookies, easy, matcha, sweet

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