Green tea (Matcha) Langue de Chat Cat's Tongue Cookies Recipe!

Hmmm... I'm officially obsessed with green tea! 

So I decided to add a new flavor to my 'midnight baking' session. I was about to bake some langue de chat cookies because I was craving for some sweet yet light desserts. And I suddenly thought about adding some matcha powder to the cookie mix to create a new taste and smell to my cookies! And they turned out to be sooooooo good and fresh! They are crunchy outside yet soft inside, not too sweet and light weighted! Let's get started with these awesome green tea langue de chat! 

Ingredients:

1/ 1/2 Cup - 1 Cup of all purpose flour (depends on how you like your cookies to be; if you want them to be soft, use 1/2 Cup; if you're like me and want the cookies to be on the "crunchy" and "floury" side then use 1 Cup)

2/ 1 stick or 1/4 Cup of Unsalted Butter (I actually used 1 1/4 stick because I love the buttery taste!)

3/ 1/2 Cup of confectioners sugar/granulated sugar (I personally find this a bit too plain so I put more, put if you're on diet or you don't like sweet, this enough is already enough)

4/ 3 medium egg whites

5/ 2-3 tablespoons of green tea matcha powder

6/ 1 teaspoon of Vanilla extract

7/ Mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (Optional)

Materials:

1/ 1 medium bowl

2/ Whisk/Hand mixer

3/ Spatula

4/ Aluminum foil/Baking sheet

5/ Baking tray

Let's begin baking!

1/ Line the baking trays with aluminum foils/baking sheet. My recipe can make 2-3 dozens so I lined 2 baking trays. 

2/ Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees F/ 200 degrees C

3/ In a medium bowl, put 1 stick butter in by cutting them into small pieces or cubes. Or you can use soften butter at room temperature as well (I actually recommend soften butter because it would be easier to blend and it would give the cookies a better texture) 

*Note: Don't microwave the butter to melt it down because it's gonna turn into liquid which would make your cookies turn out to be TOO soft. I recommend putting the butter outside for about 10-15 minutes before baking to soften it (room temperature). 

4/ Measure 1/2 Cup of confectioner sugar and put it in the same bowl. Then mix them together until fluffy!

5/ In another bowl, separate the egg whites and egg yolks. 

6/ Pour in the 3 egg whites (1 at the time and mix well before putting another one in). Mix until combined. 

7/ Put 1/2-1 Cup of all purpose flour in

Also put in 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Then mix everything well together

8/ Put in 2-3 tablespoons of green tea matcha powder

If you want the cookies to have better color, add in a few drops of green food coloring.

After that, use a spatula to blend everything until combined. 

9/ Put the mixture in a ziplock bag with a tip. Or, you can use a scissor and cut the corner of the ziplock bag to create your own tip! 

OPTIONAL: You can add some cookie chunks/chocolate chips in the mixture and make choco green tea langue de chat cookies! 

10/ Squeeze the mixture onto the baking tray (3" each) and bake the cookies for about 6-7 minutes. You should check the cookies regularly because these cookies are really easy to be cooked. 

If your cookies are still not done after 6-7 minutes or the center of the cookies are still kind of wet then you can flip your cookies downwards and leave them in the oven at 350 degrees F for 1-2 more minutes. 

Bake until the edges are golden brown/slightly brown and your cookies are done! ~ 

11/ Cool on baking sheet for about 1-2 minutes then move them to cool completely on a cooling rack and your cookies are ready to be served!

Plain green tea langue de chat on the left and mini chocolate chips green tea langue de chat on the right. They both taste fantastic. The plain ones are more buttery and not that sweet while the choco chips ones are somewhat bitter-sweet. You can also add other ingredients (up to your own reference!)

Cheers!

Cher Vo

June 30, 2013

Matcha Green Tea Cupcakes Recipe :3

Hey guys! I love matcha green tea so I decided to make my own green tea cupcakes! :) This is actually my first time making these cupcakes and I also made up the recipe by myself sooooo the cupcakes turned out to be a little bit too dry. However, I have made some changes to the recipe and below is the revised version: 

Ingredients: (For 12 medium cupcakes) 

1/ 1 1/4 cup of all-pupose flour/cake flour

2/ 3/4 cup or 1 stick of unsalted butter (soften)

3/ 1 cup of confectioners sugar

4/ 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

5/ 1 tablespoon of matcha green tea powder + 1 teaspoon extra for frosting

6/ 1 teaspoon of baking soda/baking powder

7/ 1 cup/120ml of Milk (I used 2% reduced fat milk)

8/ 2 eggs

9/ Cream cheese/buttercream frosting or you can make your own frosting! :)

Let's get started!

1/ First, pre-heat the oven to 350F/180C. Prepare a bowl, a whisk, and a hand mixer (or a stand mixer if you have one)

2/ First, put 1 cup of sugar in the bowl

3/ Cut the soften butter into cubes and add to the sugar

4/ Mix them up with a hand mixer at high speed

5/ Add 2 eggs to the bowl and mix well at medium speed

6/ Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

7/ Then add 1 cup of milk slowly into the bowl and mix 

8/ Shift 1 1/4 cup of flour, 1 pinch of salt, and 1 teaspoon of baking powder in and use a whisk to mix well at slow speed. After the flour has somewhat dissolve, go from slow speed to high speed.

9/ Add 1 tablespoon of green tea powder and whisk gently

10/ After the green tea powder has dissolved (somewhat), use a hand mixer at high speed to mix everything together

Tah-dah! And this is the final mixtureeee!

11/ Put the mixture evenly into muffin/cupcake pans and then bake them in the pre-heated oven for 18-22 minutes 

Now, we'll move on to make the green tea cream cheese frosting! I use this Betty Crocker Rich&Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting because I'm so bad at making icing/frosting! This one is really really yummy and tasty! :)

I used half of the frosting canister and mix it with 1 teaspoon of matcha powder to get the smell and taste of  green tea.

Mix them well together then put the mixture into a small ziplock bag for decorating the cupcakes 

This is how my cupcakes turned out to be! :) I used a fork to test the cupcakes instead of a toothpick so they turned out really bad. That's why you need decoration! :)

Use any decorating tips that you have and attach it to the ziplock bag. You can start decorating your cupcakes now! :)

I'm really bad at frosting and decorating, so... it doesn't look that good... :3

They taste awesome! Light-weighted, soft, and not too sweet. The only thing that doesn't satisfy me is that they are not moist and fluffy as expected; but other than that, everything else is totally fine! So, if you like green tea, give it a try! :)

June 3, 2013