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{ Recipe } Green Tea Chess Cookies

May 17, 2013 Unknown 0 Comments

I want to make this little cookies for long. Just purely because they look really pretty. Read through the recipe, I was surprised that it is actually easy to make than I thought. It just need to take more steps to make the pattern.

There are quite a few thing I can definitely do better next time when I make it again. First, I should not do it in a rush. I remember on the day Mr. Pear and I had to go to his parents place. So I was like running around the kitchen and tried to make this happen. Second, all because of the first reason, I did not harden the dough enough which made it too soft to cut it straight and nice. Therefore, some of the cookies still had the gap in the middle.

Overall, despite the shape doesn't look what it supposed to look like and a little bit bitter, but it was close enough and the taste not too sweet too.


[ Ingredients ]
100 g butter, at room temperature
1 egg
40 g caster sugar
20 g green tea powder

[ Method ]

1　Preheat oven at 190℃. Place butter in the mixing bowl, turn on the electric mixer and add the sugar bit by bit. Beat the butter and sugar mixture to pale yellow and the size expands.

2　Beat egg into the butter mixture, until it fully incorporated in the mixture. Then, divided the butter mixture into half equally.


3　Sieved both cake flour and green tea powder. Knead 100 g cake flour and half the butter mixture until the batter becomes shinny. Mix the rest of the cake flour and green tea powder together, add in the other half of the butter mixture. Knead until smooth and shinny. Then, put both batters in the freezer about 10 mins. 


4　Roll out the plain batter to 1 cm thick. Same to the green tea batter. Then, quickly cut each batter to 1 cm wide. Take two cut batters from each batch and arrange them to a chess board pattern. Slightly squeeze the batter, so as to joint the gap between each batter. Put in the freezer for 10 mins.

Note: If your batter is still too soft (especially on a hot day), you may need to freeze longer, so that it is hard enough to cut. 


5　Take out the batters from the freezer and quickly cut the cookie dough every 0.7 cm. Then, place the cookies on the lined baking tray. Remember to leave some space for each cookie.

6　Place the baking tray in the upper rack for 10 mins and they are ready for your tea time treat.

[ Kitchen Notes ] 

• If you don't like too much bitterness in your cookies, you may need to increase the amount of sugar to counteract the bitterness from the green tea powder. 
• You can store the cookies in the air-tight container for 3 days.