May
2007

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Best Bakery Recipe Finalist

Amai's Green Tea Cookies

Amai’s Green Tea Sweet recipe is a finalist in the Best Bakery Recipe category for Pastryscoop.com’s Golden Scoop Awards. The three finalists in the category will compete in a blind taste test on June 14, and the winner will be announced on June 18, 2007 in an awards ceremony at the French Culinary Institute. I am so honored to be included as a finalist, and can’t wait to see the other recipes included in the category. I submitted the recipe for fun, but didn’t seriously consider being a finalist/winner. It feels good to be recognized as a chef. In my mind I’m still a computer nerd.

In honor of this award, I’d like to share the recipe with all Lovescool readers. Now you can make your very own Green Tea Sweets. Don’t worry, you can still buy them online if you don’t feel like baking. If you do make this recipe, please let me know how it turns out in your kitchen. I submitted the professional size batch to Pastryscoop, and I scaled it down for home kitchens for this post. I’d love some help with testing.

Green Tea Sweets

Ingredients
Yield (2” leaf shape): Approx 25

3/4 cup (2.25 oz) Confectioners sugar
5 oz Unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 3/4 cup (8.5 oz) All-purpose flour
3 Large egg yolks
1.5 TBS Matcha (powdered green tea)
1 cup Granulated sugar (for coating)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
Whisk the confectioner’s sugar and green tea together in a bowl.
Add the butter and green tea/sugar mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix until smooth and light in color.
Add the flour and mix until well combined.
Add the egg yolks and mix just until the eggs are fully incorporated and a mass forms.
Form the dough into a disk and chill in the refrigerator until firm (about 30 minutes).
Roll the dough out to ½” thickness.
Cut the dough with a leaf cookie cutter.
Toss each cut cookie in a bowl of granulated sugar to coat.
Place the sugar-coated cookie on a parchment lined pan. Bake at 350F for 12-15 minutes, or until slightly golden around the edges.

Baker’s Note: You can purchase Matcha (powdered green tea) from Asian grocery stores or specialty tea shops. In NYC try McNulty’s Tea House, Ito-En or you can order baking grade matcha online. The higher quality matcha you use, the brighter green the cookies will be. Store the cookies in a tin or other container that blocks out sunlight to preserve the color. The green color will fade when exposed to sunlight.

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41 COMMENTS SO FAR...

fanny says on May 16th, 2007 at 1:07 am:

thanks so much kelli for this recipe
ever since i’ve seen those luscious shorbreads i’ve been wanting to make them
ill let you know how they turn out

love
- fanny

ps congratulations on the nomination

Andrew Lin says on May 16th, 2007 at 5:16 pm:

Congratulations Kel! You may be a computer nerd, but you are also becoming quite an accomplished pastry chef. I’m very proud of you.

Mariko says on May 16th, 2007 at 8:25 pm:

Congratulations! Very exciting. And thank you so much for posting the recipe for the delicious cookies! I will bake some up as soon as I can.

Amai Tea & Bake House says on May 17th, 2007 at 6:49 pm:

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Latifa says on May 21st, 2007 at 5:16 am:

Congratulations & thanks for the recipe.

Julie says on May 23rd, 2007 at 10:44 am:

Just made the cookies last night and they are a winner! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe.

bea at La tartine gourmande says on June 16th, 2007 at 10:58 pm:

These look absolutely delicious. It surely is a winner recipe. Look at this refreshing color! I have to try them!

Knitter in the Kitchen » If You Like Green Tea Ice-Cream... says on June 22nd, 2007 at 3:56 pm:

[...] …then I highly recommend trying the Green Tea Sweets recipe so kindly provided by Kelli of Amai Tea and Bake House! [...]

Vera says on June 26th, 2007 at 5:32 pm:

Congrats, love your website and cookies!

fanny says on July 24th, 2007 at 9:20 am:

Hi Kelli,
I’m making these right now - the dough is currently resting in the fridge.
And I have to say something! I feel that these shortbreads are gonna be the best shortbreads ever. The dough simply is delicious (I’m sure I won’t get 25 cookies because I probably ate half of the raw dough). I can’t wait…
I’ll tell you how they turn out. Hope I or my oven won’t screw everything because at the moment it looks very promising.

Love xxx
- fanny

fanny says on July 24th, 2007 at 5:53 pm:

Hi (again) Kelli,
so the shortbreads turned out beautifully. I love how they keep their shape.
The taste is lovely - at first I was slightly intimidated to put 1.5tbsp of matcha tea but it was just the right amount.

Thanks for this awesome recipe. Definitely a keeper.

Love xxx
- fanny

ps here is the post about them:
http://www.foodbeam.com/2007/07/24/foodbeam-turns-two/

Biscotti al tè matcha [because you can!] | il cavoletto di bruxelles says on July 26th, 2007 at 7:29 am:

[...] Trattasi della classica ricetta bloggoroico-virale, di quelle che come sono spuntate fuori hanno iniziato a girare la blogosfera… Nella fattispecie, questi Green tea sweets sono opera di Kelli (e se ho capito bene li commercializza pure, sotto il marchio Amai, insieme a una mini collezione di altri biscottini al tè), solo che io non li ho scoperti lì bensi da Fanny, la quale ci festeggiava il secondo compleanno del suo (bellissimo!) blog. Insomma, è stata una classica reazione à la ‘questi li devo assolutamente fare’. [...]

Kelli Bernard says on July 26th, 2007 at 8:37 pm:

I’m so glad you liked them Julie and Fanny. You can always double the recipe next time and have more to bake off (without giving up the dough :)). Thanks for letting us know how they turned out.

veron says on July 27th, 2007 at 8:00 am:

Oh Kelli! Thank you! I so adore this shortbread cookies! I shall immediately try them this weekend. I found out via Foodbeam, fanny’s site that you published the recipe. It is so generous of you.

Mae says on July 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm:

Hi Kelli, i couldn’t resist but make these adorable and oh so delicious cookies.

I posted it on my site. Here’s the link.
http://www.maegabriel.com/riceandnoodles/index.php?showimage=108

Thanks for the recipe!

veron says on August 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pm:

Okay, I made them and they were delicious! Thank you so much!

monique says on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:25 pm:

Thank you for this receipe, I made them with verry success (sorry for my bad english).

lory says on August 6th, 2007 at 12:34 pm:

miam,miam..délicieux biscuits!!

edith says on August 7th, 2007 at 8:16 pm:

I tried out this recipe yesterday and it was really delicious. Thanks for the generousity in sharing this wonderful recipe.

I just may be good at it…. « La Yucateca says on August 14th, 2007 at 5:32 pm:

[...] So, needless to say that when I made These I really, really, really wanted them to come out good. Something about them just drew me to try it. So I took the plunge….and you know…they were perfect. Perfectly sweet, but not too sweet. Perfectly green tee-ish, but not too green tee-ish. Crisp and crumbly, but not too crisp and crumbly. Not to mention they are so beautiful. [...]

cammu says on August 21st, 2007 at 8:45 am:

MMMMmmmm!
Matcha cookies.

Maddy says on August 26th, 2007 at 8:47 pm:

These were so good! Mine weren’t as pretty as yours, but they tasted absolutely delicious. Thanks for the recipe!

http://archaeobaking.blogspot.com/2007/08/mmmgreen.html

carlos says on September 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 am:

Hola Kelli.
Felicidades por tu magnifica receta están deliciosas. Tienen un premio muy merecido
Las hice ayer y nos gustaron muchísimo.
Aquí tienes la prueba

http://lodecarlosvalencia.blogspot.com/2007/09/galletas.html

Muchas gracias por la receta!!!

Lisa says on September 6th, 2007 at 10:14 pm:

These cookies were gorgeous, thank you for sharing your recipe!
http://spicyicecream.blogspot.com/2007/09/gorgeous-green.html

Mandy says on September 12th, 2007 at 12:19 am:

I made it too! Thanks a million for the recipe! It’s here: http://novice-baker.blogspot.com/2007/09/matcha-again.html

Pille says on November 25th, 2007 at 7:33 am:

And I made them, too. Thank you for a great recipe, Kelli!
My version is here: http://nami-nami.blogspot.com/2007/11/loveschools-lovely-matcha-cookies.html

delia says on January 31st, 2008 at 8:25 pm:

I tried out this cookie. It was wonderful. I din coat the cookie with castor sugar b4 baking. Something different for a change. Thanks for the recipe, Kelli.

Green tea cookie recipe | The Wonders of Green Tea says on February 16th, 2008 at 10:29 am:

[...] Tea Cookies (adapted with very minor variations from Lovescool/Amai Tea & Bake House) 3/4 C (2.25 oz) confectioners sugar 5 oz unsalted butter (5/8 C, or 1 and 1/4 stick), straight from the fridge, cut into 1 tbsp slices 1 3/4 C (8.5 oz) all-purpose flour 3 large egg yolks (save the whites to make tuiles or macarons) 1 1/2 tbsp ground tea of your choosing 1 C granulated sugar (for coating) [...]

Green Tea Sweetheart « e’s joie says on March 9th, 2008 at 6:59 am:

[...] This recipe I am trying is the winner for Best Bakery Recipe category for Pastryscoop.com’s Golden Scoop Awards last year. It’s definitely a refreshing change from the usual cookies. I thot this will be a one-off bake but I do like the light aroma during the baking and the cookie taste really good, it has a melt-in-the mouth texture. [...]

Special Thai Shopping Mall says on March 20th, 2008 at 5:10 am:

Thanks for the recipe. I love your website and cookies. Welcome to My website http://www.Nitcharee2Thailand.com/?lang=en

Bernie makes Matcha Cookies! « Bernetti’s! says on March 29th, 2008 at 7:54 am:

[...] Anyway, I happened to come across a post in bakebakebake on Livejournadl about matcha cookies last year, and so many people raved about it. I replied to that post mentioning about baking some soon, but that ’soon’ turned into about 5 months later. Finally decided to make them as there was not much matcha left in the pantry to make another round of matcha cupcakes. This recipe comes from lovescool, the original creator of Green Tea Sweets. [...]

Ellen says on March 29th, 2008 at 9:01 am:

Wow!!!! Fabulous little cookies
I made them the other night and my household was blown away. Needless to say, they have all been eaten, so now it is time to make more. Thanks for sharing your recipe with us!

Lovescool - For the Love of Dessert » Blog Archive » Peace, Love and Matcha says on March 29th, 2008 at 11:44 am:

[...] If you want to try your own, here’s a link to the original post with the recipe. [...]

Bernie makes Matcha Cookies! « I’ll do it for cookies! says on March 29th, 2008 at 10:55 pm:

[...] Taken and adapted from lovescool’s popular recipe [...]

shifting perspectives « Gluten-Free Goodness says on March 30th, 2008 at 3:53 pm:

[...] After some searching I decided to use Elana’s Butter Cookies, taking into account Lovescool’s Green Tea Sweets, which is cross-linked all over the web,and create some gluten-free tea cookies. As I searched for my base recipes, I discovered that tea cookies could be made with any tea; all I had to do was grind the tea to a fine powder and experiment. The white chai tea I had recently purchased, quickly came to mind and I knew I had to try it. [...]

Carrie Fields says on April 15th, 2008 at 7:43 am:

Ok, so I know this is a bit belated, but I just went to an online shop that you recommended and I wanted to say thank you SO much, they have so many things that I have been looking for! Thank you for helping me heighten my baking You rock!

Pille says on June 27th, 2008 at 3:23 am:

Kelli, it was so surprising and great to actually meet you - and try your very delicious green tea cookies - at Amai earlier this month!
Greetings from sunny Estonia!!

lemonpi » Daring Bakers Challenge : Filbert Gateau with praline buttercream says on July 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm:

[...] The whole concept of a layer cake is genius. The cake itself is almost nothing more than a vehicle for the copious amounts of flavoured buttercream and glaze involved. I’ve never been too much of a buttercream fan, but I love making cakes for others, so was only too happy to attempt this recipe in the name of the Daring Bakers. The recipe for this cake is rather lengthy, so I have decided not to include it. However, you should be able to find it on Chris’ blog. The recipe for green tea biscuits can be found here. [...]

TwoToasts.de says on September 21st, 2008 at 8:13 pm:

I made you a cookie……

…well, it’s a whole bunch of cookies actually.

I’ve been meaning to try out Kelli’s omnipresent Matcha Shortcake recipe for a long time now - and since they are supposed to have a nice green color, I said to myself: "Hey! Why not make Midori…

petrina says on October 25th, 2008 at 10:36 am:

thanks for the recipe- i made the cookies today and they were fab!

Bernie makes Matcha Cookies! « Beaten & Baked says on November 7th, 2008 at 4:24 am:

[...] and adapted from lovescool’s popular [...]