Matcha Shortbread Cookies – Green and Delicious!
I wasn’t planning on posting these matcha shortbread cookies here, so I didn’t take many pictures of my process of baking them. It turns out that it is almost St. Patrick’s Day, so I’m posting these cookies because they’re naturally green! Green and delicious!
Ingredients for Matcha Shortbread Cookies
- 4 oz (1 stick) Unsalted Butter, softened
- 1/3 Cup Sugar
- 3/4 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Cup + 2 Tbsp Flour
- 1 Tbsp Matcha Powder
- 1/8 Tsp Salt
Instructions
- Mix together the flour, matcha, and salt, and set aside.
- Using a paddle attachment, paddle the butter, sugar, and vanilla on medium until creamy and semi-fluffy, around 2 minutes. It should be well-incorporated.
- Reduce speed to low and add in the flour, matcha, salt mixture and mix until incorporated. Feel free to scrape down sides of bowl as necessary.
- Mixture might be a bit crumbly, but that’s OK. Take dough out of bowl and knead by hand and roll into a log or ball and wrap in plastic wrap and put in fridge for 30 minutes.
- Roll the dough 1/4 inch thickness and cut out shapes. Feel free to do this in batches.
- Put the shapes on parchment paper and put in freezer for around an hour.
- Pre-heat oven to 350, and take the raw shaped cookies on parchment paper, onto a tray, and bake for 16 minutes.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- Freezing/chilling the dough before baking helps it retain its shape.
- Edges and bottom should be lightly brown, so feel free to bake longer or shorter depending on your preferences of a bit underdone or a bit overdone, etc.
- After cooling, the cookies should be crispy, with a snap of the shortbread.
- Taste should be slightly matcha-y, not overly sweet, and with a hint of salt. Feel free to adjust recipe to your needs.
- If the batter is too crumbly, feel free to add more butter and mix well. Add more flour if it’s too sticky.
- Shortbread goes with various flavors. Feel free to make a chocolate or vanilla (or any flavor of your choosing) to dip part of the cookie in and let set. It adds on more flavor and texture as well as some more color and depth!
Final Comments
I really liked how these came out, and they went so well with coffee. Matcha is one of my favorite flavors and I really enjoy the semi-bitterness from matcha. I’m still laughing about how I made these very close to St. Patrick’s Day! It’s such a shame though because if I thought about it beforehand, I may have made these on the day of! Ah well, these are great and I shall make them again after I restock on ingredients.
