Matcha Green Tea Cookies

Elspaghetti's Note:

Positively scrumptious! Makes a great gift. Matcha powder can be substituted with powdered chai tea mix, bothe are fabulous!

• Total Time: 27 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 24

Yield: 2.0 dozen

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ¼ cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 tablespoon green tea powder (matcha)
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon water
• ½ cup butter , cubed (unsalted is reccomended, if using salted, omit the salt in the recipe.)
• ½-1 cup sugar , for coating

Directions:

1. Preheat oven at 375.
2. Blend all dry ingredients.
3. Add vanilla, water, and butter, mix until dough forms.
4. Roll cookies into 1 inches balls, coat in sugar.
5. Flatten each cookie with a glass coated in sugar (for spherical cookies, skip this step).
6. Bake 12 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Allow 5 minutes to cool before transferring to wire racks.

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

After reading Lynne's review I was very careful when making this recipe ~ I did add an additional measure of the Matcha green tea powder & slightly more water, but that was about it! AND, I made sure my balls of dough were definitely not more than 1" across & ended up with 21 EXTREMELY TASTY COOKIES! Thanks for posting the recipe ~ I'll be making it again! [Tagged, made & reviewed in New Kids on the Block tag]

[Lynne the Pirate Queen]

I love matcha in baked goods, and this is no exception. Although I don't think the matcha flavor comes through quite as strongly as I expected, these are still wonderful butter cookies -- with a twist! ;) Mine were done in only about 10 minutes, so it's a good thing that I checked on them a little early. Apart from that, I had only two problems with the recipe: 1) With 1 teaspoon of water, I simply could NOT get anything resembling a dough to form -- it was dry and crumbly and would not adhere. I added one more teaspoon of water, and *poof* -- suddenly I had dough! Perhaps 1.5 teaspoons would have been better, though, since by dough felt a little on the thin side. 2) There's no way I could get 24 cookies out of this recipe. Mine were very close in size to the 1" balls called for, and I only got one dozen out of the batch. It's a shame, too, because these are so good, I wish I had more of them!