I first saw these shortbread biscuits at Foodbeam, when Fanny tried Kelli’s recipe for Green tea shortbread sweets. The recipe uses Matcha tea powder, a Japanese green tea that I love: it tastes delicious and is also rich in antioxidants. I was intrigued, and bookmarked the recipe for my future experiments, but never tried it until now. And am I glad that I tried it! These are delicious, crumbly biscuits with a delicate taste of green tea and vanilla.
I divided the original recipe by 3 – it’s just me and my husband at home, and these are really addictive… I also made a few changes: as usual, I added vanilla extract (I make my own – recipe in some other post), and rolled the biscuits in vanilla sugar (just stick a vanilla bean in a jar of fine caster sugar, and store in a dark place. After a couple of weeks, you have heaven in a jar). I also slightly upped the quantity of matcha tea powder, and added a pinch of salt to bring out the flavours.
Green Tea shortbread biscuits – makes about 20 biscuits
30 gr icing sugar
45 gr unsalted butter, cut into thin slices
1 egg yolk
75 gr flour
1 pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 tablespoon matcha tea powder
50 gr vanilla sugar
Sift icing sugar and matcha tea in a bowl, add butter and work with a fork until smooth and light in colour.
Add the egg yolk, pinch of salt and vanilla extract and mix until well combined.
Sift the flour in the bowl and stir until combined, but don’t overwork the dough.
Pat the dough in a disk, wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for an hour.
Preheat oven to 160-170 degrees Celsius. Roll the dough to 1 cm thickness (I went for a slightly thinner thickness), then cut the dough with a cutter.
Toss the biscuits in the vanilla sugar until fully covered, then place on a baking tray lined with parchment and bake for 15-20 minutes (know thy oven…) until slighly golden around the edges.
Let the biscuits rest on the baking tray for 5 minutes, then transfer on a rack to cool completely. Store in a tin box for a week – if you can…
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oh they’re gorgeous Cristina! I love love love vanilla as well. x
Thank you Fanny
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