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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I made these on the weekend and they were delicious! I added a bit more matcha powder, but maybe that’s because I’m a bit of an addict myself 🙂
I’m so glad that you liked it, Mel! Thank you so much for trying out the recipe and letting me know what you thought of it. Have a great weekend =)
I’ve just whipped these up as a present for my line manager 🙂 They take no time at all and only four ingredients – amazing! I’ll get a verdict on the taste tomorrow 😉
I hope they’ll like the green tea cookies. Just curious, did you use regular butter or vegan butter?
I used regular butter – I don’t think Japan is ready for vegan butter yet 🙂
And the feedback from my line manager was that they were yummy and moist!
I made them using the convection oven function of my microwave, so I baked them for 17-18 minutes and was afraid I’d overdone them, but they were fine. They kind of remind me of shortbread because of the ingredients.
I’ll definitely be making these again whenever I have to whip something up quickly as a gift 😀
I’m so glad your line manager liked it! Thanks for letting me know how the recipe worked out for you. =) It would have tasted different with vegan butter. You can get the taste of vegetable oil, but it’s an option for vegans. lol
Not a tea person, but I would be glad if I would be offered one of your cookies here with my caffe latte.
A caffe latte sounds so good right now!
Wow!! I am definitely going to try this out!! Looks delish 🙂 As soon as I can follow you I will do that too 😉 Looking forward to learning more recipes.
Thank you so much, Nicola! I hope you’ll get the chance to try the green tea cookies =)
These look fascinating! A cookie with health benefits, definitely worth a try 🙂
Any excuse to eat a cookie, right? =)
Oh yes!
Just a quarter teaspoon of green tea powder? Guess a little goes a long way. Thanks for your blog visit and like today
Yup! You don’t need much to get the flavor =)
Will definitely try your recipe sometime. I’ve been using tworedbowl’s matcha shortbread recipe and it turned out great.
I really hope you’ll like the green tea cookies if you get the chance to try it =)