Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Matcha Green Tea Cookies

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ATTLING THE DESIRE to gorge on sweets has become a bit problematic for me lately. Every meal has felt incomplete unless it ended with dessert. For instance, I made some green tea cookies, and as soon as they had cooled, I ate 6 of them, one after the other. The takeaway from this is that I am not to be left unattended with cookies.

Since I am embracing this physical dependence on sugar, or at least attempting to make a gradual departure from it, I made semi-healthy green tea cookies. Green tea has antioxidants, you can look it up. ;-) The first step to all of this is making little matcha chip morsels, which is so easy a task you will be dreaming of all sorts of infusions.


MATCHA CHIP INGREDIENTS
  • 2 1/2 cups white chocolate chips (I like Ghiradelli)
  • 2 tbsn. matcha powder

DIRECTIONS
  1. Melt your white chocolate using the double boiler method (i.e. place a bowl over a pot of hot water, making sure to form an airtight seal). Once the white chocolate shows the first signs of melting, reduce the heat and stir until smooth.
  2. Add 2 tablespoons green tea powder. You can purchase food grade matcha powder online. Otherwise it becomes very expensive.
  3. Transfer everything into a bag and pipe chips onto a piece of aluminum foil. Put them in the freezer for about 35 minutes or until hardened.


Matcha Chips



Piles of cookies, waiting to be devoured.


COOKIE INGREDIENTS
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter (softened)
  • 1/4 cup green tea (brewed 1 tablespoon green tea to 1/4 cup water)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups matcha chips

DIRECTIONS
  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
  2. Combine sifted dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt). Beat butter and sugar until well combined, then egg, vanilla, and green tea until light and creamy.
  3. Using a wooden spoon, stir matcha chips into dough.
  4. Place cookie dough on sheet (with cookie dough balls having 1" diameter) about 1" apart. For pillowy cookies, leave as is. For slightly flatter cookies, press down with your palm.
  5. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until cookies are golden brown. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.




What other teas would you like to try this with?

Enjoy!
Margaret


9 comments:

Andrew said...

Alright, now I definitely want to make my own chocolate chip infusions. This is brilliant - did you come up with it yourself?

MyFudo™ said...

This is something I'd love to try sometime. I'd love to experiment wih matcha, I dont do that too often. Thanks for sharing!

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Angela said...

oh my gosh, look sooooo delicious!!

Sapiess said...

Ooh, creative. But I think I'd be too lazy to actually make chips. Maybe just panels.

El said...

The cookies look great!

Aubrey {All Things Bright and Beautiful} said...

This is totally genius, and yummy!!!

sorelle in style said...

Wow, those sound so delicious! I'm afraid I suffer from the same "dessert after every meal" syndrome, too ;)

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Crystal said...

Aww, and you're a tea lover to boot! I wonder if they are as good as chocolate chip??