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Recipe: Easy bite size, mini matcha cookies you can whip up with 5 ingredients. Not too sweet, not too bitter. It tastes just right.

2/4/2013

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Number of steps:  6 easy steps
Time taken: 10 min to prepare, 8 min in oven
Approx. 30 kcal per cookie

About This Dish:
Being a girl, sometimes you just crave for desserts. Unfortunately, I find the cookies and sweets in Boston too sweet compared to those in Japan. Solution? Bake my own! These matcha cookies are not too sweet, but not too bitter; it makes the taste of matcha truly come out. All you need is flour, butter, sugar, matcha powder and an egg yolk. I'm not a professional baker, and I must say these cookies came out perfect. Just make sure to use room temperature butter!

Note: The cookies I made are tiny, bite size, miniature cookies. Please cut and bake according to your taste!


What You Need:
(For approximately 30 mini bite sized cookies)
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour (120g)
  • 1 - 1.5 teaspoon matcha powder (~6g)
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (60g) *Room temperature
  • 3 - 3.5 tablespoons white sugar (~45g)
  • 1 egg yolk
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1. Sift the flour and matcha powder together into a bowl.




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4. Wrap up the dough into saran wrap and place it in the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour. I rolled it up since it's easy to cut up when baking! Pre heat the oven to 335F or 170C.

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2. In a separate bowl, mix the butter (room temperature) and sugar together until it becomes a little creamy. Then, stir in the egg yolk.


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5. On an oven safe pan, line up the cut up cookies. I usually apply a super thin coat of oil on aluminum foil. You could also use cookie sheets, of course. Place in the oven for 8 - 10 minutes.

**You can also add sesame seeds, chocolate chips on the cookies!

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3. Add the sifted flour and matcha powder into the mix from step 2. Mix until it becomes smooth like the photo above. I started using my hands in the middle :P

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6. Cool the cookies down and enjoy :)

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4 Comments
Kat
7/26/2013 05:41:55 pm

Hello! wanted to say that i've tried out your recipe a few times, But I do believe you meant 1cup of flour instead of 1/2cup. The first time I made it, I panicked coz it was too gooey. Then i realised 120g is 1cup. But an effortless recipe nonetheless, :)

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Alicia
8/16/2013 09:58:48 am

Hmmm.... I tried it with 1 cup and it was waaaay to crumbly to mold into dough so I ended up doubling the recipe instead :D

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christan
9/13/2013 08:27:10 am

Hi!!! I followed your recipe (well i added a little more matcha bc i love it) and it came out great!! the 1/2 c flour worked for me! i pressed the top into sugar and added chocolate chip. very cute and tasty!

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9/15/2013 03:29:54 am

Thank you for your comment!
I'm glad this worked for you :-) I will have to make them myself again to double double check!

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