Matcha Sablés (Green Tea Shortbread Cookies)

This is a very late post which has been sitting in my blog as "draft" for a few months which I did not realise until now. Blur me!

These Matcha Sablés (Green Tea Shortbread Cookies) were baked sometime in September as a birthday gift for the best friend of my elder daughter who loves green tea a lot. These cookies are crunchy and full of green tea flavor. If you love green tea like me, you will sure love this.

The recipe is adapted from here (text in Chinese) but I halved the quantity and had also made some slight adjustment as below.

Matcha Sablé Recipe

• 112g unsalted butter
• 80g powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 200g cake flour
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1g baking soda
• 12g green tea powder
• Some white chocolate chips

1. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and green tea powder. Set aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add in beaten egg over 2 times.
3. Fold in the flour mixture and mix till combine into a dough.
4. Transfer the dough out of the mixing bowl, place it on a plastic wrap and wrap it in the shape of a disc.
5. Chill the dough in the fridge for around 2 hours till firm.
6. Remove the dough from the fridge, roll it flat (slightly less than 1 cm in thickness), use cookie cutter to cut out the desire shape, place the sables over baking paper. Lightly press chocolate chips on top of each sable.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 150 degree C for 20 minutes. Keep a close watch during the baking process to prevent over-baking. Over-baking will cause the sables to turn from green to ugly brown.

Note: Instead of using cookie cutter to cut out the sables, sables are usually prepared by rolling the dough into cylinder shaped log and keep in the fridge to film up before being sliced into pieces of sables for baking. But I personally prefer to flatten the dough and use a cookie cutter to cut out nicely.