Matcha Tea Cookies

Name: Matcha Tea Cookies
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 35
Ingredients: 200 g soft butter; 75 g Icing sugar; 3 Egg yolk (size M); 15 g Matcha tea powder (green tea); 225 g Flour; 1 pinch Salt; 5 TABLESPOONS demerara sugar; baking paper

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
50 mins

TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 35

200 g soft butter
75 g Icing sugar
3 Egg yolk (size M)
15 g Matcha tea powder (green tea)
225 g Flour
1 pinch Salt
5 TABLESPOONS demerara sugar
baking paper

Directions

1
Whisk butter and icing sugar with a whisk of the hand mixer until white-creamy. Stir in 1 egg yolk. Mix tea powder, flour and salt, sieve over the butter mixture and fold in. Chill for 10-15 minutes. Form small rolls (approx. 2 cm Ø) from the dough. Whisk 2 egg yolks.
2
Put brown sugar on a plate. Brush the rolls with egg yolk and turn them in brown sugar. Cut rolls into approx. 0.5 cm thick slices and spread on 2 baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake one after the other in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 12-15 minutes. Take out and let cool down
3
Waiting time approx. 30 minutes