Author: Alison from www.lifealittlebrighter.com
Recipe type: Dessert
Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 14 mins Total time: 24 mins
Serves: 24 cookies

Subtly sweet, crunchy tea cookies that pair beautifully with green tea.

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup packed powdered sugar
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon matcha (green tea) powder
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• ⅓ cup sliced almonds, lightly chopped

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Sift together the all purpose flour, matcha powder and salt.
2. With an electric mixer at medium speed, cream the butter and powdered sugar until fluffy.
3. Lower the mixer speed. Add in sifted ingredients slowly until dough is formed.
4. Spread almonds out in a rectangular shape, on plastic wrap. (Eyeball it to make sure that the plastic wrap is large enough to wrap around the dough)
5. Remove the dough from the mixer, mold into a log shape, and place on plastic wrap- in the middle of the almonds, see picture above.
6. Wrap the log in the plastic wrap and freeze for 30 minutes.
7. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
8. Remove the dough from the freezer.
9. Unwrap log, slice into ¼” circles, and lay out on a cookie sheet.
10. Bake for 14-16 minutes on the middle rack.
11. Remove the cookies to wire rack to cool completely before storing in air tight containers.

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