Chewy matcha green tea cookies, a buttery shortbread made with 6 ingredients and ready in 30 minutes. A beautiful green cookie, made with green tea powder, delicious alone or filled with white frosting.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Sit the jar of coconut oil in a pot of just boiled water to melt it.
Measure flour carefully, either weigh or fluff the flour in the bag to loosen it and spoon carefully into a measuring cup and level with a knife. Add matcha powder and the sugar, then mix the mixture up with a spoon.
1 cup flour, 2 teaspoon matcha green tea powder, ¼ cup cane sugar, pinch of salt
Then add milk and melted coconut oil and mix with a hand mixer.
3 tablespoon coconut oil, ¼ cup milk
Mold the cookie dough into a long roll using your hands. Make it about the size of a paper towel roll, wrap it in plastic wrap or parchment paper, and freeze for 15 minutes. Then slice ½ inch circles of cookie dough.
Line cookie circles on a parchment-lined cookie sheet for baking. Bake cookies for 10 minutes.
Remove the pan from oven, cool in pan 2 minutes, and then put cookies on a cooking rack for another 10 minutes.
Serve as is or create sandwich cookies with a middle filling of white frosting
Storage
Keep the cookies refrigerated in a sealed container, although by the next day the cookies will soften considerably.
Best eaten the first day, while the cookies are flaky and the frosting is fluffy.
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Notes
Storage : Chill the rolled, uncut dough for 5 days or freeze for three months. To store baked cookies, leave unfrosted in the refrigerate for 5 days. Once frosted, eat right away or they will soften.Measure your flour carefully. You can weigh but I have had good luck by simply loosening the flour in the bag, then spooning lightly into the measuring cup and leveling off.Serve these match green tea cookies as is, or add your favorite white frosting between two of them to create a sandwich cookie.*If you choose to roll the dough into a cylinder, set the dough roll on a double folded kitchen towel to make a cushioned surface so when you cut the circles will stay round.