Green Tea Chocolate Chips Cookies

I have an affair with matcha powder recently (shh.....don’t tell this to my first crush: chocolate J).  I love everything with matcha green tea flavored, especially matcha chocolate, not to mention that it has so many wonderful health and taste benefits.  Last night, I was having a cookie craving, but I had minimal ingredients so I decided to make some sugar cookies.  I needed a recipe that was fast as well as delish so I searched the internet and found this on Kirbie's Cravings!! Geez, I am glad I did.  What a hit!  All the ingredients were simple and in my pantry, but…hey, don’t let the simplicity fool you.  This recipe makes the most fantastic cookies.  Everyone raved about them.

Haven’t you heard the wisdom of our lives that the simple things are often the best?  Okay, these cookies were the proof.  They were simple and easy to make with ingredients that you usually have on hand, the dough was a perfect consistency, and the taste was heavenly.  I did make some changes—as a chocolate addict—I  added ½ cup of semisweet chocolate chips and  added matcha powder to 3 tablespoons  to bring out the green color.

Most sugar cookie recipes make you refrigerate or freeze the dough for  a couple hours, but this one was a cinch to make.  Cookies flatten out on their own in the oven.  The cooking time is right if you want a nice chewy cookie, if not around 10-12 minutes for a crispy one.  I used a cookie dough scooper (about the size of a tablespoon) making sure it wasn’t overstuffed.  They may seem too soft to be done, but when they dry, they’re so chewy and yummy.

The result was a delicious buttery cookie, crispy on the outside and chewy within. Picture-perfect and awesome! I could see why they went so fast and everyone liked them.  I guess I’ll never buy a ‘store bought’ sugar cookie again. With ingredients on hands, I can make them anytime I get a sweet tooth!

Green Tea Chocolate Chips Cookies

For recipe in Indonesian click HERE

Ingredients

·         2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour

·         1 teaspoon baking soda

·         ½ teaspoon baking powder

·         1 cup butter, softened

·         1 ½ cups white sugar

·         1 egg

·         1 teaspoon vanilla extract

·         3 tablespoon matcha green tea powder

·         ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1.       Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

2.       In a small bowl, stir together flour, matcha green tea powder, baking soda, and baking powder.  Set aside.

3.       In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.  Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Add in chocolate chips.  Roll dough into balls about one inch in diameter and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.

4.       Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven.  Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.

Bahasa Indonesia

Bahan

·         2 ¾ cups tepung terigu serbaguna

·         1 sdt baking soda

·         ½ sdt baking powder

·         1 cup mentega, suhu ruang

·         1 ½ cups gula pasir

·         1 butir telur

·         1 sdt ekstrak vanilla

·         3 sdm matcha (teh hijau) bubuk

·         ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips

Cara

1.       Panaskan oven dengan suhu 375 derajat F (190 derajat C).

2.       Ayak tepung terigu, matcha (teh hijau) bubuk, baking soda, dan baking powder.  Sisihkan.

3.       Dalam mangkuk besar, kocok mentega dan gula sampai lembut (sekitar 3 menit).  Masukkan telur dan vanilla, kocok.  Masukkan bahan kering secara bertahap, aduk rata.  Masukkan chocolate chips, aduk rata.  Buat bulatan-bulatan (bisa juga menggunakan sendok es krim) kecil  dengan diameter sekitar 1 inch.  Letakkan di atas loyang yang telah dialasi kertas roti.

4.       Panggang selama 8 sampai 10 menit.  Biarkan selama 2 menit sebelum dipindahkan ke dalam wadah.