Who doesn’t love a good buttery shortbread cookie? This simple recipe combines matcha green tea powder with the buttery goodness of a shortbread for a sure winner!
I love matcha green tea. Anytime I see a “matcha green tea” flavor baked good on a menu, I HAVE to try it. Our freezer also always has some variant of green tea ice cream in there (currently it is a pint of Trader Joe’s Matcha Green Tea Ice Cream and a box of Shirakiku green tea mochi ice cream—both delicious btw and highly recommend if you also love matcha green tea).
However, even though matcha flavored desserts are becoming more popular, I’m not always able to find them easily when I’m having a hankering for them. Enter these easy matcha green tea icebox cookies! The recipe is so simple and only requires 5 ingredients! Six if you want to dip them in chocolate which is a no-brainer for me.
Prep Time: 20 minutes (does not include chill time)
Bake Time: 9 minutes
Total Time: 29 minutes
Yield: Makes 24 cookies
INGREDIENTS
1 stick or 1/2 cup, unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon matcha green tea powder (I use Maeda-en's Universal quality matcha powder)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
melted semi-sweet or white chocolate chips for dipping (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 F for standard oven. Line two baking trays with parchment paper.
Sift together the flour, green tea powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
Using an electric mixer on low speed, mix together the butter and sugar until smooth. If you don't have an electric mixer, no problem! You can use a rubber spatula to cream together the butter and sugar and will just need to put a little muscle in it! The cookies will still turn out delicious!
Add the flour, green tea and salt mixture and combine until a dough comes together.
Place the dough on a piece of plastic wrap, and shape it into a 1½-in.-thick log. Tightly wrap and refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes. The dough can stay refrigerated for up to 2 days before baking.
Slice the dough about ¼ in. thick and place sliced dough on a baking sheet about 2 in. apart. Bake for about 9 minutes for a more crisp cookie or until the dough no longer looks raw and cookies are just barely set at the edges. If you tend to like a more tender, soft cookie, you can bake them for about 8 minutes. Let the cookies cool completely before digging in!
If desired, melt your chocolate chips of choice and drizzle or dip half of each cookie into the melted chocolate. Let set before enjoying!
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