December 28, 2011

Matcha (green tea) sea salt cookies

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Another jar of my finery treats for the festive season is these lush green matcha cookies, the divine flavour is dominated by the deeper bitter flavour, incredibly rich and versatile. The aroma and the colour are such inspiration and I absolutely deeply in love with. A very good treats which make it suited for the festive season, snacking them and totally enjoy at every bite of it.




I have to tell you, I always tempting to have anything that contains the touch of matcha, moreover beverage such a soya matcha latte, it’s a great company for the sundown and it makes the scene even fantastic! Later, the nightfall would be the peaceful night before hits the bed.




I was sticking to my plan of baking some matcha cookies, looking something so dearly that could impress me to be pack in the jar and beautiful to look at. Without any hesitation, I decide to move forward with Martha Green tea Cookies recipe as I need to short the time of surfing, in intent to pin the desire one. At that time, I was thinking of being creative with some idea of making these cookies really glowing and having some contrast to balance the flavour. I came up with the additions of sea salt to be sprinkle on top before it baked, trust me…this sweet heart would hit your satisfaction up to the air :))
 
In the end, I was happy with the result, the sea salt actually works as enhances to all sweet delight and I could not stop munching them. It’s good to be true that with the balance of sea salt and bitterness became wonderful wrapped-up to the whole package!




 


Matcha (green tea) sea salt cookies



Ingredients

  1 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
  1 tablespoonful matcha
  1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
  1/3 cup confectioner sugar (more if you use a very good quality matcha)
  1 egg yolk
sea salt for sprinkles




Method

Sift the flour and matcha in a bowl. 
Cream butter and sugar in a mixer bowl on medium speed until pale and fluffy, 
about 3 minutes.

Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture and beat until combined. 
Add-in yolk and beat until mostly incorporated


Shape the dough and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to a 5 mm thickness 
or between two non stick baking sheets. 
Cut out cookies in desired shapes using cookie cutters. 
Set them on baking trays lined with cookie sheet.

Bake until crisp, but not dark about 10-15 minutes. 
Transfer cookies to wire racks, and let cool completely.



cook note, 
Good quality matcha has more intense of bitter edge, 
so be wise to add-in amount of sugar 
or otherwise your cookies would end up either too bitter or to sweet. 





27 comments:

  1. I love the colour of your cookies as they are indeed very festive. Salt is a great addition to the cookies as the salty/sweet flavour combi is something that I really adore! Just like salted caramel! Mmmmmm

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  2. aih mak...memang green tea itu eksotik rasanya. Kemaren baru bikin green tea cuppies. Sebagai pecinta rasa matcha..boleh ya ini di contek hehehe :). matur nuwun sak durunge

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  3. Where do you buy your matcha? and what brand(s) do you recommend?

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  4. these look so good! i love matcha and the addition of salt seems like a great idea. your photography is gorgeous btw. :)

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  5. slyvia, thank you for droppig by and leave me a comment

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  6. As, silahkan mencotek :) happy baking!

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  7. Tamagochibaby, i bought mine at Japanese Supermarket in my town, it was loose one, without brand.
    You might get it on line, there are several good quality Japanese matcha powder and you can check it out via google :)
    Happy cooking!

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  8. Michelle, thank you for the visit and the kind comment

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  9. Ira, fabulous pictures and nice recipe. I have never worked with matcha but have been meaning to for a very long time. Your post is another kick to make me actually go and buy matcha.
    By the way, I love Bali- you are so lucky to live there!!!

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  10. What a simple and delicious cookies -- I've yet to try matcha. I would make this cookies for sure :)

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  11. Love anything to do with matcha, wish it was less expensive though. Thanks for sharing!

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  12. wow, love that vibrant green... makes it look so pretty.

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  13. I can't help but keep coming back to this post. Not a fan of green tea but these cookies are making me crazy .... gorgeous click!

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  14. Natasha, thank you for visit and commenting. yes, these cookies definitely rockin and deserve a try :)

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  15. Kiran, you will absolutely love it to bit :) * oh, i could not stop munching them

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  16. Deeps, thank you for dropping by and write a comment :)

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  17. Kankana, these cookies actually truly brilliant--the colour is spelled and the flavor is addicted :))

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  18. Your detail work always amazes me. I probably don't spend for photo shooting as much time as you put. You have really special talent and (magic hand) to make simple thing so beautiful - like this Matcha cookies. I'm horrible at taking pictures of cookies (although I've only done twice)... you are really my inspiration!

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  19. I just finished making these cookies and they were no where near as green as yours. They were more of a light tan, almost like a sugar cookie. Did you use food coloring? Or do I have the wrong kind of matcha green tea? Please let me know because I only made these for the color.

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  20. Nami, thank you for your appreciation to my works. It always fun doing something that we love :) btw, i adore your photographs too!

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  21. Ashley, thank you for letting me know how this recipe works or otherwise.

    Anyway, lm using just ordinary green tea matcha powder which i bought it at japanese store. As i mentioned in the recipe that it add in a tablespoonfuls , it should giving you a seductively cookies colour as a result :) and it would looks the same green olour as at my picture, it tasted intensely matcha too

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  22. the color is really beautiful, I just love your pictures

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  23. Gorgeous gorgeous color!
    Salt brings out the sweetness a little more, love these festive cookies..

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    1. Thank You Radhika!
      Yes, sea salt makes overall flavor divine

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  24. sea of green means only green green environment around us, so to make our earth beautiful this is very important to make our environment beautiful and attractive. SO thankful to you for posting this blog.

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    1. Thank you for coming here and commenting

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