Crispy on the edges and chewy in the center, these green tea cookies are oh so very tasty and addictive. Simple to make with only four ingredients, you’ll have cookies ready in less than 20 minutes.
Is anyone as addicted to green tea as I am? Or cookies that are both crispy and chewy?
As you can probably see, I’m still in my stressed out and indulging mode. But don’t worry, that’ll be over in a few days.
Less than two days till the exam! I can feel the nervousness building up. That awful butterflies fluttering in my stomach feeling. They tell you to do relaxing things before the exam, but really, how am I supposed to do that when it’s all I think about? I really need more chocolate. Or maybe more of these green tea cookies. Something, anything, to calm me down.
With these green tea cookies, I made two separate batches. One batch of green tea cookies with regular butter and a second batch of vegan green tea cookies made of Earth Balance Vegan Butter. As much as I wished they tasted exactly the same, there is a little bit of a vegetable oil taste with the Earth Balance. My sister thinks it tastes similar to soy, even though it’s soy free. That vegetable oil taste occurs when you first bite into the cookies, but a few seconds later, your taste buds adjust and all you taste is the green tea. If you’re looking for a healthier alternative or a vegan alternative, Earth Balance Vegan Butter is something you should try. The recipes are completely the same. Just substitute butter with vegan butter.
With this recipe, you’ll have green tea cookies ready in less than 20 minutes. And because I really didn’t want to overindulge, my recipe only creates half a dozen. But it’s very easy to scale them to fit your needs.
First, preheat the oven to 375oF. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
In a medium sized bowl, use two forks to cream the butter. You want to break the butter into small pieces.
Add in the sugar, and combine them until both ingredients are evenly distributed.
Add in the green tea powder and the flour. Mix them until they’re all evenly combined and crumbly.
The green tea powder that I used is the Maeda-En Matcha Green Tea Powder
If you notice that this recipe looks a little familiar, you’re very observant, and there’s a reason for that. I loved my crumble so much, I decided to turn it into cookies =)
Roll the dough into little balls, about one inch in diameter. It doesn’t really matter if it’s smaller or bigger.
Place them onto the parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Place them in the oven and bake for about 10-12 minutes.
Remove them from the oven. The cookies will appear soft and not ready, but allow them to cool for about 5-8 minutes. They’ll start to harden.
Serve the cookies warm or cold. Enjoy!
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Thanks, Andrea! I am a big fan of green tea and look forward to trying these.
Thanks, Glenda! =)
Hi Andrea! I just e-mailed your green tea cookie post to my daughter. She will love this!
Thanks.
I hope she’ll like it =)
Can I make green tea powder from pulverizing regular green tea? I have SO much green tea in my pantry at the moment I would love to have a different way of using it.
Yup! I haven’t tried it that way personally, but I know that people have pulverized earl grey tea for their cookies, so I don’t see why you can’t do that with green tea. If you do try it that way, I hope you’ll let me know how it goes =)
Ohh they look delicious! I have heaps of green tea but no powder – will have to track some of that down! Good luck with your exam 🙂
Thank you so much!
Two of my favourite things! Green tea and cookies! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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You’re welcome!
Looks very delicious!
Thank you!
That looks lets say ‘intresting’ just kidding its looks soooooo yum
Thank you! =)
Will have to make some soon… looks so yummy! Peace
Thank you!
Those look delicious! I’m going to try the vegan butter version this weekend. Thanks!
I hope you’ll like it =)
Omg!!! This is incredible! This may be a dumb question. I know that in your recipe you use powered green tea. But there’s this green which is infused with Apple pieces and popcorn and I was wondering if there’d be any way to use a leaf base kind of tea to bake these sort of cookies.
I think it’s possible to use the leaf base green tea only if you can process the leaves so that it’s very fine. Because otherwise, you’d be eating leaves in your cookies. I haven’t tried it that way before, but I do know that people have done that with earl grey tea. So I don’t see why it would wouldn’t work with green tea. Hope that helps =)