[Photograph: Tara Straino]

Matcha lends these vibrantly green cookies every color and unswerving green tea kind.

Reprinted with permission from The Cookiepedia by Stacy Adimando. Copyright © 2011. Printed by Quirk Books. Accessible wherever books are equipped. All rights reserved.

Formula

• Three/four cup powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon pure matcha powder
• half cup plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter,at room temperature
• Three egg yolks
• 1 Three/four cups all-motive flour
• Pinch salt
• Sugar, for dusting (optionally accessible)

Directions

1. 1.

   Mix collectively the powdered sugar and matcha powder. Add in the butter and beat it all collectively till tender and spinach green. Add the egg yolks and beat till largely incorporated, scraping down the fairway, sticky stuff off the facet of the bowl, as wanted.

2. 2.

   Pour in the flour and pinch of salt, half at a time, and beat to combine. This could preserve end a minute for the flour to absorb into the dough, so don’t scramble it. As soon as the total flour is in, use your arms to examine for in particular gooey or dry sections of the dough (it will restful scrutinize very crumby); while you win any, preserve mixing.

3. Three.

   Exercise the warmth of your arms to drag the dough collectively true into a ball. Lay out the ball onto a portion of plastic wrap, seal it up, and procure the ball true into a flattened disk. Relax it till agency sufficient to roll, about half-hour to 1 hour.

4. four.

5. 5.

   Must you’re spirited to bake, roll out the dough to about half-recede thick. Cut out cookies utilizing a leaf-formed cookie cutter, or any different form you’d esteem. Drop the cookies in the sugar, if utilizing, and flip them to coat all aspects. Build of dwelling them on a parchment-paper-lined cookie sheet and bake 12 to fifteen minutes, till barely initiating to turn golden. Frigid on wire racks.