Green Tea Cookies

It's finally hitting me that I'm going to be leaving Michigan in slightly over 2 months and I have so many baking materials that I need to use up before I go O_O So, I decided to start making a dent into my supplies this week! I got the Field Guide to Cookies as a gift and I've been flipping through it quite often just to read about different cookies and look through all the recipes. The recipe for green tea cookies looked quite simple and I had all the ingredients on hand so I decided to give it a go! I am quite happy with the end result and I love any excuse to use my cute little Japanese cookie cutters :) The only issue I had with this was the dough was rather crumbly, making it a bit hard to roll out. Otherwise all went well. I think I'll definitely try them again, but use less matcha next time. I threw in 2.5 tbsp this time for an extra punch but I'm not always in the mood for a really strong matcha flavor ^_^;



Green Tea Cookies
adapted from Field Guide to Cookies

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup rice flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 tbsp matcha powder
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
extra sugar for dusting
extra flour for rolling out dough

Directions

1. Mix the flour, rice flour, salt, and matcha powder together.
2. Cream the butter and the sugar together.
3. Slowly mix the flour mixture into the butter and sugar by hand until combined.
4. Turn out the dough onto a sheet of plastic wrap. Shape the dough into a rectangle of about 3/4" thickness.
5. Chill dough in refrigerator for 2 hours.
6. Preheat oven to 325F and grease cookie sheets or line them with parchment paper.
7. Sprinkle flour on a flat surface and on the dough. Roll out the dough until about 1/4" thick. Cut with desired cookie cutters (approximately 1.5-2 inches in diameter).
8. Place cookies on cookie sheets and sprinkle sugar on each cookie.
9. Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes, until the edges are slightly brown.

*if your cookie cutters are larger or smaller than 1.5-2 inches in diameter you will want to adjust the baking time