Matcha Cookies

Matcha is a type of tea leaf powder that has a beautiful vivid green color. However, it’s different from the “green tea” that you drink with Japanese meals. That’s green tea too, but matcha green tea leaves are grown and harvested differently. The leaves are grown under shade.

Ingredients

(for 13 cookies, 8 ~ 9cm in diameter)

Directions

  1. Melt butter in a bath or microwave.
  2. Add white sugar, brown sugar and salt and mix with a whisk
  3. Add egg and vanilla extract and mix with a whisk until well mixed.
  4. Add flour, matcha powder and baking soda and mix with a whisk until you can hardly see the powder.
  5. Add white coverture chocolate and macadamia and mix evenly with spatula.
  6. Allow 30 minutes to 1 hour in the refrigerator until the dough hardens.
  7. Pan with a 5cm diameter cookie and bake at 170°C (338°F) for 9 minutes. (Unox convection oven)