Green Tea Cookie

Followed Lovescool's recipe to make Xmas giveaways for colleagues. It looked pretty with the sugar coating glittering like snow on a Christmas tree. After putting the gift labels that niece Ms TS made with me, the small gift packs looked really festive and presentable. Hope my colleagues will like them...


















Batch 1: Followed recipe exactly, used 100% icing sugar. Light green tea aroma with buttery fragrance. Mildly sweet. Lovely light green shade. Wonder why they had such big 'pores'.

Batch 2: Increased matcha powder to 2 tbsps, used 50% icing sugar + 50% caster sugar. Cookies still had big pores, turned out a darker shade of green, had a stronger green tea aroma, and is slightly more bitter than Batch 1.



 












Green Tea Cookies

Ingredients:

3/4 cup (2.25 oz) Caster sugar
5 oz Unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 3/4 cup (8.5 oz) Plain flour
3 Large egg yolks
1.5 tbsp Matcha (powdered green tea)
1 cup Coarse granulated sugar (for coating)

Method:

• Preheat oven to 175`C. Grease pan.
  
• Whisk sugar and green tea together in a bowl.
• Add butter and green tea/sugar mixture. Mix until smooth and light in color.
• Add the flour and mix until well combined.
• Add the egg yolks and mix just until the eggs are fully incorporated and a mass forms.
• Form the dough into rolls and wrap them with wrappers*.
  
• Rest and chill for at least 2 hours.
  
• Toss each roll of dough in a tray of coarse granulated sugar to coat.
• Cut cookie into 0.7mm thick slices.
  
• Place the sugar-coated cookie on baking pan.
  
• Bake at 175`C for 15-18 minutes, or until slightly golden around the edges.

Tips:
1. Made wrappers by cutting plastic bags through to get 'plastic bag sheets'. It is less messy, cleaner and easier to shape the dough into the desired shape this way.