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In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy.
These matcha shortbread biscuits are easy to make, but can also serve as a basic shortbread biscuit dough for whatever you wish to make.
Customise with white chocolate, or add some chopped nuts.
You can have Simple Sesame-Scented Matcha Shortbread using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Simple Sesame-Scented Matcha Shortbread
- Prepare 70 grams of ○ Cake flour.
- It's 20 grams of ○ Almond flour.
- You need 1 of half 1 pinch ○ Salt.
- You need 1 tsp of ○ Matcha (sugar-free).
- Prepare 2 tsp of Black sesame seeds.
- You need 2 tsp of White sesame seeds.
- It's 50 grams of Unsalted butter (or cultured unsalted butter).
- You need 25 grams of Powdered sugar.
- It's 1 tsp of Heavy cream.
- It's 1 of Crystal sugar.
Serve as simple rounds, or use biscuit cutters for whatever shape you want to bake. Sift the flour, powdered tea and salt into a bowl. In a mixer bowl, beat butter and powdered sugar until fluffy. Add flour mixture to mixer bowl and mix slowly until dough just comes together.
Simple Sesame-Scented Matcha Shortbread instructions
- Mix together the ○ ingredients and sift twice..
- Take a separate bowl, and put in the butter and sugar. Cream with an electric whisk (I quadrupled the recipe in the photo)..
- Pour the heavy cream into Step 2 and combine well. Then add the sifted dry ingredients from Step 1, and the black and white sesame seeds. Mix well with a cutting motion to form a dough..
- Wrap in cellophane. Roll into a 3-4 diameter cylinder that's 18-20 cm long..
- Chill in the fridge for at least 3 hours. Alternatively, you can freeze the dough for future use at this stage (will last for up to 2 weeks)..
- Once cooled, roll the dough in granulated sugar to coat and restore its cylindrical shape. Cut into 1 - 1.5cm thick slices..
- Bake in an oven preheated to 170℃ (160℃ for gas ovens) for 13–15 minutes. Adjust the baking time and temperature to your oven..
- Fresh from the oven Leave them to cool down on a wire rack, and store in an air-tight container to prevent them from going stale..
- The listed quantities yield a small number of cookies per batch, so you can try making a variety of different flavours at once. All the different colours look great together..
- For a cherry-blossom version, see. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/144200-cherry-blossom-scented-icebox-cookies.
- For a chocolate version, see. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/144179-crunchy-chocolate-icebox-cookies.
These matcha green tea shortbread cookies are so delicious that you'll be amazed at how easy it is to make! By enhancing the flavor of traditional shortbread cookies with matcha, this is a modern take on a classic cookie that won't go out of style any time soon. You have the melt-in-your-mouth texture of shortbread complemented by the smooth taste of matcha, creating a perfectly balanced cookie. In a stand mixer bowl, combine powdered sugar and matcha powder. Beat the softened butter into the matcha mixture using a stand mixer, until smooth and light.