This Matcha Green Tea cookies recipe is a great way to make decorative green swirl cookies for the holidays without any artificial dyes. The recipe simply uses matcha green tea powder
to make the cookies feature a vibrant green spiral. These green tea cookies are of course great anytime, but would be particularly festive for the Christmas and St. Patrick's day holidays due to the lovely natural green color of the swirls.
Spiral Matcha Green Tea cookies for The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap
I made these green tea cookies for The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap this year. It was a fun project. Each participant was given three bloggers to send a dozen cookies to, and three different bloggers also sent them cookies. It was top secret Santa stuff.
Since all the participants are food bloggers, I wanted to do something a little different. I decided create this Spiral Matcha Green Tea Cookies recipe using matcha
(high grade powdered green tea) to both flavor and provided natural color for the cookies. Granted the green was not quite a standard Christmas green, more like vibrant avocado, but they are green without using fake dye and have an appealing green tea flavor. I vacuum packed the cookies cookies for shipment, stuffed in some red packing shreds and included a glittery holiday card, then they were on their way.
Matcha Green Tea Cookies Recipe
Well, without further ado, here is my little contribution to the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap body of knowledge, my Spiral Matcha Green Tea Cookies recipe.
Get Your Matcha On
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Matcha Green Tea Powder Organic - Japanese Culinary Grade (Smoothies, Lattes, Baking, Recipes) - Antioxidants, Energy Boost - Jade Leaf Brand [30g Starter Size]
Davidson's Tea Bulk, Gunpowder Green, 1 PoundStarter Matcha (16oz) - USDA Organic, Kosher & Non-GMO Certified, Vegan and Gluten-Free. Pure Matcha Green Tea Powder. Incredible Flavor, Delicate Aroma, Natural Energy Booster and Fat Burner
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For more delicious cookies with a surprise Asian ingredient, try my Chai Cookies or Tahini Cookies recipe.
Spiral Green Tea Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 ½ tbs matcha powder
Instructions
- Cream together the butter and sugar in large mixing bowl.
- Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix.
- Add the flour, baking powder and salt, and mix well.
- Take out about half the dough, ball it up. wrap in plastic wrap and put aside.
- Add the matcha powder to dough remaining in bowl, and mix until color is thoroughly blended.
- Ball this dough up, and wrap, as well. Refrigerate the dough for about 15-20 minutes, just enough to stiffen it a little.
- Divide each ball in half then roll out into long rectangle. Tuck edges in as they crack, helping the dough to obtaining a relatively uniform shape.
- Lay one white over one green and vice versa.
- Trim off edges. And gently roll like a cigar (plastic wrap can be helpful in doing this). You will end out with two long dough logs.
- Place the dough logs in refrigerator for at least an hour.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Take out the dough, and slice off ¼ inch cookies. Place the cookies on parchment lined baking sheets.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes. Pay close attention after about 10 minutes, we don't want these cookies to brown at all on tops.
- Place cookies on racks.to cool.
Notes
Nutrition
Many thanks to Julie of The Little Kitchen and Lindsay of Love & Olive Oil for all their hard work putting this together.
Mellisa says
I''ve never used Matcha powder. These look really good and pretty too!
Rachel @ Following In My Shoes says
Those are GORGEOUS! Wow -- and I love the unexpected tea element. Wish you'd had my name! 😉
Robin Gagnon says
... see now I thought the cereal you put in your cookies was an unexpected element 🙂
Robin (Masshole Mommy) says
They look so pretty! I am going to make these for the party I'm going to next weekend.
Alison says
Oh oh I want to make these!
Katie says
I really liked these cookies!! Thank you for sending them to me for the Blogger Cookie Exchange 2012.
Kathleen
Robin Gagnon says
I'm glad you liked them, I was a little concerned they might be a little odd for some people.
Dee says
These really look fantastic!!
Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy says
Those cookies look extremely yummy. I wish I could eat one right now LOL!
Donna says
I love Matcha powder! I make homemade chocolate pudding using it. 🙂 These cookies not only sound good, but look so pretty!
Robin Gagnon says
Hmmm... green tea and chocolate, now you have me thinking.
Emily says
Thanks, Robin! I really enjoyed these. 🙂
Jennifer The Quirky Momma says
I love swirl cookies. I will be making these this week. So pretty and a lovely shade of green.
Marcie W. says
I would love to try Matcha Powder, especially with how gorgeous you've made these cookies look!
HilLesha says
I never heard of green tea cookies, but they sound really good!
Anne - Mommy Has to Work says
These are beautiful. I might make some!
Elaina- A Time Out for Mommy says
These look amazing!
Leilani says
LOVE it! Green is my favorite color and those are beautiful.
Stefani says
I LOVE the way these look. I want to try them!
Kelly @ A Girl Worth Saving says
So pretty and seriously what an awesome idea.
Courtney says
These are so cute !
Sheri says
I love them! Now I wonder if I can make them... I am going to have to try.
JulieD says
Wow, Robin, beautiful cookies!!! I'm so glad you joined in this year and wow to vacuum sealing the cookies...so smart!!
Jenn @therebelchick says
Your cookies look amazing! I wish I had a food sealer like that, I just put mine in ziplocks inside goodie bags!
Allison Day says
Beautiful! I've been looking for a way to use some of the matcha I brought back from a trip to Japan, and this sounds perfect. ^_^
Kathleen says
Those are so cool looking and I bet they are delicious!
Ty @ Mama of 3 Munchkins says
Oh, those cookies look so good!
Theresa says
Oh my word. Your cookies look amazing.