MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES
MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, matcha/green tea shortbread cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

These matcha green tea shortbread cookies are so delicious that you'll be amazed at how easy it is to make! By enhancing the flavor of traditional shortbread cookies with matcha, this is a modern take on a classic cookie that won't go out of style any time soon. You have the melt-in-your-mouth texture of shortbread complemented by the smooth taste of matcha, creating a perfectly balanced cookie. I love the flavor of green tea powder in baked European-style sweets.

MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have matcha/green tea shortbread cookies using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES:
  1. Get For SHORTBREAD:
  2. Take 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  3. Take 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  4. Make ready 2 tsp powdered green tea
  5. Get 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  6. Get 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
  7. Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
  8. Take 2 cups multigrain atta or flour (whole wheat flour or plain flour)
  9. Make ready For CHOCOLATE GLAZE:
  10. Take 100 gms chopped dark chocolate
  11. Make ready as required Colored sprinkles

I used high grade culinary matcha green tea. The color and the taste was perfect. In a the bowl of a stand mixer bowl, beat butter, matcha powder and sugar until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, sift together the all-purpose and cake flours with the Matcha powder.

Steps to make MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES:
  1. Add cream butter, sugar, green tea powder (blitz or blend green tea leaves to a coarse powder), cinnamon powder, cardamom powder and salt and beat until fluffy; about 2 minutes with a beater.
  2. Stir flour in batches and on low speed until totally incorporated, or better yet by hand or using a spatula, and just mixed; do not over work the mix. - Remove and bring together to form a soft dough, handling it gently. - Divide into 2 and wrap in plastic wrap; chill in refrigerator for at least 15 minutes to half an hour.
  3. Once the dough has chilled, preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C. - Lightly grease a baking pan and keep aside. - Take out one dough ball and roll in between 2 parchment sheets with a rolling pin to about ¼” thickness. - Cut out heart shapes with a heart shaped cookie cutter.
  4. Gently remove the cutout cookies, and place on greased sheet. Collect the leftover dough and form a ball again; chill again if necessary. - Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until lightly golden at the edges. Set on racks to cool.
  5. At this stage, enjoy the buttery, chai flavored shortbread or cookies as such or to make them more decadent, dip them in melted chocolate (melt chocolate in microwave or double boiler)halfway and sprinkle colored sprinkles on top of the chocolate and place on parchment-lined pan.
  6. Let the chocolate set either in the fridge for quick setting or on the counter. - - Enjoy these crunchy, crispy and healthy eggless heart-shaped cinnamon and cardamom flavored matcha shortbread cookies with family and friends!
  7. NOTES: Instead of multigrain flour, you can use all-purpose flour or whole wheat in these cookies. - - Use any kind of spice you love and enjoy these eggless and healthy shortbreads any time! - - If you do not have a heart-shaped cookie cutter, you can use any cutter you have. - - Instead of rolling the dough and cutting them out, you can form the dough into 2 logs, wrap in a plastic wrap and chill at least 4 to 8 hours or even overnight and just before baking, cut into equal slices and bake.

In a the bowl of a stand mixer bowl, beat butter, matcha powder and sugar until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, sift together the all-purpose and cake flours with the Matcha powder. This recipe for naturally green matcha tea shortbread cookies is seriously addictive: you've been warned! When I was in University there was intense pressure to wear green on St. Patrick's Day - I remember getting razzed many times for showing up to class sans green.

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