Green Tea Cookies With Matcha And Mint

I’m a bit of a matcha addict lately. Not just as a tea (once a day at least), but I also love combing it with sweet flavours. Like cakes and ice cream. It adds the subtle bitterness of the finest green tea and a lovely, bright green shade. I already tried it with cream cheese chiminangas (find my recipe here: Cream Cheese Chimichangas With Matcha And Strawberries) and it worked very well. So, last weekend I thought, why not try making cookies with matcha? Sounds like a pretty obvious combination, isn’t it? Yummy choc chip cookies with a little twist. I also added a bit of a maca powder to it, but that’s completely optional. And oh so easy, it only takes a half an hour from scratch.

Crispy outside and gooey inside – these are delicious.

Baking with matcha

Matcha tea is healthy and delicious (especially with a little oat milk in my view), but it can also provide vibrant colours and earthy flavors of matcha which will transform your baking into something extraordinary.

Recently, matcha became very hip and fashionable to bake with and because its unique flavour pairs well with sweet flavours, professional and hobby bakers just can’t get enough of it.

The best is to use culinary grade matcha, which is specifically produced for cooking and baking these days. For this, they pick more mature green tea leaves which results in a more robust flavour that will not fade when cooking with it. Plus, it’s of course less expensive than premium grade or ceremonial grade matcha tea.

Tips when baking with matcha

• Use culinary grade matcha green tea
• Matcha powder is a very fine substance that can easily stick together if not mixed properly, sifting is required
• Always keep testing the mixture to make sure the matcha flavour isn’t too overwhelming, add it by 1/2 spoonfuls

I think they are the best when still a bit warm, but they also store well. But they are always gone in no time 🙂

Green Matcha Cookies

Green Matcha Cookies

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine Fusion

Servings 20 cookies

Ingredients

  

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• 100 g butter or vegan butter
• 100 g caster sugar
• 80 g  light brown sugar
• 1 egg or 1 flax egg
• 200 g all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1.5 tsp matcha powder
• 1 tsp maca powder optional
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• half tsp mint extract
• 100 g chocolate chips
• 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 170C.

  Melt the butter in the microwave (proper bakers feel free to gasp here), so that all the tools you will need is a wooden spoon. In a bowl, cream the melted butter with the sugars and add the mint and vanilla extracts. Add the egg, the matcha (sifting is the best way), the maca powder, the salt and the baking powder. Combine well. Add the flour. (Sifting it is better but not necessary.) Finally, add the choc chips and combine well.

  Cover a baking tray with baking paper and evenly place 9 little balls (bit smaller than a golf ball) on it. Bake them for 8 minutes only, I kept checking on them: when they are getting a light golden shade (that’s how they are getting their lovely crispness), they will be just perfect.

  Leave them to harden and cool for a few minutes before transferring them to a plate. I think they are the best when still a bit warm, but they also store well. But they are always gone in no time 
  

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