When I saw my foodie friend Anh’s Matcha and White Chocolate Cookies post on her blog A Food Lover’s Journey last month, I knew I needed to make it. I love both traditional and modern Japanese sweets that contain sweet red bean paste or/and matcha (green tea).
I was not only excited to eat these cookies, but I was also looking forward to taking pictures of cookies for the first time. I have seen how all the food bloggers take pictures of cookies – most common one is usually by tying them with ribbon! Despite my excitement, I did not have the right type of ribbon so I ended up using cooking twine… I actually struggled a lot with my very first cookie photos because it was such a hard object to make it interesting. But the cookies were wonderful. I know I’ll make these again and again!
As for the recipe, I pretty much followed Anh’s recipe because I don’t see anywhere I need to change or want to change. The amount of white chocolate I used was a guesstimate. For those of you who want to try this recipe, I hope you can find 100% pure matcha powder in your local Asian grocery store. The good quality ones should have very beautiful green color, not dull green. Here’s the Maeda-En Brand I use for my Green Tea Ice Cream and this recipe and it’s around $6 for 1 oz (28.5g). It’s a bit pricey but matcha is expensive in Japan as well.
I leave you with these delicious cookies as I have packing to do for a little get-away with my family. Happy Veteran’s Day and have a great weekend!
*For Vegan Green Tea Cookies, please click here. Roxana of A Little Bit of Everything made these delicious Green Tea Cookies on my blog.
Ingredients:
- 240g all purpose flour
- 15g matcha powder
- 150g unsalted butter, softened
- 130g powder sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions:
- Sift the flour and matcha powder.
- Cream butter, sugar, and salt until soft and light.
- Add in the yolks and beat well.
- Gradually add in flour and matcha.
- Add the chocolate chips and fold in together.
- Shape the dough into 2 logs and wrap them in saran wrap. Rest in the fridge overnight.
- Preheat oven to 300F (150C) and cut the cookies to 7mm thickness. I think if you put too many chocolate chips, this step can be a little tricky as you see in the photo.
- Bake for 20 minutes and let them cool on rack.
Enjoy!
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Nami, this green green cookies are fabulous!!! So good and so green … a great present for Christmas
I have to try this matcha tea!
These look so pretty! Wow I love how bright the green is. The green tea powder I use is Taiwanese and my bakes with green tea always turn out brown :p
Enjoy your little holiday!
these look great!
Beautiful green and love the white chocolate chips in this cookies!
Nami, your green tea cookies look so eyes appealing and gorgeous! I love the green and and extra bits of white chocolate chips in them. Can almost smell the fragrant green tea aroma here… yummy!
They look very attractive and delicious. Would have never thought of a green tea and white chocolate combination, very intriguing
Your cookies look gorgeous and are a lovely colour.
What? Nami posting a cookie recipe?! Just kidding!
These are prettt and look tasty. I struggle with taking pictures of muffins. Lol Your pics are delightful as always!
I know, your response was what I was expecting! Hehee. Yep I made cookies…and will make another kind soon after challenged by Erin @ Dinners, Dishes and Dessert!
Nami, your cookies are awesome! They are so beautifully grass-green and look extremely luscious (I almost feel it’s Spring!). They remind me a bit of “palets bretons”, delicious butter biscuits I make with salted butter. You are an excellent baker! Now you cannot deny it.
Have a lovely weekend!
I shall call myself “rookie baker” now.
The color is amazing! They would look so lovely for Christmas
Gorgeous cookies! That combination is really divine.
Cheers,
Rosa
I knew you could do it!! Your pictures came out great and the cookies are real beauties. Maybe a green tea cake could be next? Have a great get-away and enjoy your extra treat.
Nami, these are just adorable! Delectable, too. Rich in antioxidants are a plus, of course.
Yay!! You baked cookies and the looks great Nami
Such a gorgeous green colour!
Your photos are also fabulous
These are beautiful! Love the combination – what a great combination.
Those are beautiful, I can see why you wanted to make them!
These are lovely cookies Nami. Happy Holiday to you and your family.
Great to see u bitten by the baking bug
Love the green of the cookies. Green tea & white choc are so wonderful together!
Oh, these are gorgeous cookies…I can’t resist anything with white chocolate chips! Mmmmmmm. Enjoy your family time this weekend, Nami!
These are such pretty cookies! I love the presentation of the stack of cookies tied with the twine!
You did a great job with the photos Nami, the cookies look very provocative. Not sure if I can find green tea powder is the quality you have, but I start looking of it in Asian stores. Thanks for this post.
These cookies sound SO good! I love the color
Your cookies look stunningly good and I like the simple string tie effect. I’m a real fan of matcha in baking, but I haven’t tried cookies yet – have bookmarked this recipe and will be giving it a go.
These look very adorable and it’s always great to get a dose of anti-oxidants! I love the composition in the second photo. The red really makes the green cookies pop.
Nami, these look SOOOOOOO Good! The photos really look good, even without ribbons!
We were suppose to go on a weekend trip to the Texas hill country this weekend also, but Jon and I decided against it because the last month we incurred way too many expenses. Hopefully we’ll get to enjoy the weather in Houston, it’s finally fall weather here and I am excited! Hope you and your family have a blast on your trip, can’t wait to see the photos!
Hi Nami! Everytime I visit your blog I am aw strucked by your pictures. Today u showed me the prettiest cookie ever. This green is my favourite colore. Whats is Matcha made of? I dont doubt that it i good. =)
Matcha is finely-milled green tea. Have you heard of Japanese tea ceremony? We use the matcha powder to make special tea (not regular green tea that we normally drink). We use these powders for snacks, soba noodle, etc.
I love these cookies Nami – such a fantastic idea and great use of flavours!
Mandy
Nami – These are just my kind of cookies! Definitely adding to my Christmas baking. I have made your green tea ice cream twice now and really enjoyed it.
These are beautiful cookies and the white twine sets off that vibrant green colour. I’m going to have to buy some matcha powder to use in my madeleines so I’m going to keep an eye open for the brand you mentioned.
Nami, I am so glad you made these: they look fabulously tasty and what a wonderful colour! Great presentation, too.
I wish you could send me some of these over here…!! I have never tried matcha cookies before, but I KNOW that I will love them for sure. I think adding white chocolate is also a genius idea, the flavours of matcha and white chocolate together must be heavenly!!
Nami these are so beautiful. You did such a lovely job with the pictures too. Stunning and eye catching. I’ve never had green tea cookies. Think I must try them.
Those look so divine. the colour, the twine… when you opening your restaurant??
The cookies look delicious Nami, and your pictures are lovely! Great idea with the cooking twine!
Have a wonderful weekend!
those look divine. little art pieces. the colour, the twine…when you opening your restaurant?
Oh Nami, these cookies are so pretty, I just love the green color and your presentation!
Have a great weekend!
A girl in my off is Japanese and loves green tea anything. She has been begging me to bake something for her. I am so making these cookies this weekend. Thanks for the recipe!
I love the looks of these! I think the white chocolate would work really well with the matcha. Now I must try it!
yay it’s Friday! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Oh Nami, these look beautiful!! You know, it’s funny you mentioned the ribbons, because one of my first thoughts was how perfect the twine is for these matcha cookies. It looks so simple yet gourmet. You did a wonderful job with the photo too! I wish I could try some now!
Oh this one is so bookmarked, I am a fan of recipes with matcha. They look awesome as I am sure they taste awesome too. Great job with the twine I think!
Hi Nami! I’ve been MIA for a while now and I’ve been missing some of your wonderful posts. I need to catch up with everyone and hopefully I’ll have more time this weekend. Your green tea cookies look amazing!! The color is so bright! I’ll catch up with you soon, but in the meantime have a great weekend!
This is absolutely perfect! You know I do not like sweets much, but matcha and white chocolate is a match made in heaven
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Thank you, Nami! And the photos are gorgeous as always! I love Maeda-En, too!
Nami! Look at you baking! I’m so proud of you. These cookies sound and look outstanding! Hope you have a great weekend!
I love cookie, the green tea gives really nice vibrant colour!
See, you can bake, Nami! It’s not so tough. I’m so glad you baked these too, I can’t wait to try them! love, love, love white chocolate!
They’re just lovely! I do like the twine
I love the color on these!
I could feel your excitement even with the taking of these beautiful photos. The cooking twine looks perfectly fine… i mean it’s even better than those pretty satin ribbons i suppose… well no offense meant to those who do but yeah sometimes it works best with what just you have right… happy weekend Nami and these green tea with white chocolate chip cookies are a great way to start it off!
emjoy,
Malou
wow~looks so yummy!
I love everything with matcha!
Thanks, Nami!
Thanks for this lovely Matcha Cookies. I bet it must be yummy. Not very often seeing you baking cookies and hopeful there will be lots more surprises from you.
i just love how vibrantly green the cookies are! must be really fresh green tea powder?! (i find that they turn dark over time in my pantry?!)
these are perfect as afternoon tea snacks…now i am hoping to make some cookies this weekend
delicious looking colourful cookies
LOL It is funny how all food bloggers end up stacking up their cookies and tying them up with a ribbon. I think yours came out beautifully. I’ve made green tea cookies before, but not with white chocolate chips. The white against the vivid green is definitely striking looking.
lovely colour
Hooray for a new dessert recipe!
I’m so going to make these cookies! LOVE the color!
These are stunning! I always forget to tie the cookies up with a ribbon…and it’s such a cute way to display them! I can see how it would be tricky to slice them with chocolate chips, but yours are just lovely!
Nami these are so pretty. I love the bright lime green. Plus the way you packaged them is so unique. I wish I could taste one, I know they’re delicious! I guess I’ll just have to make some myself!
Nami-for someone that does not make desserts, you make fabulous cookies…among other things, I’m sure!
Love the green tea cookies, especially with the white chocolate chips! So colorful, and yummy!
xoxo
The color is amazing!! I think you did a fab job snapping the pics, love the natural lok of the twine. great sweet treat!
I’ve always struggle to make cookies look interesting in photos, but you’ve done it! Such a beautiful color too, wish I could have one.
I really try to resist cookie recipes because cookies in this house go really fast and then take a long time to work off.
BUT – I don’t know if I’ll be able to resist these. Matcha is a great ingredient. I love matcha ice cream so I can only imagine how delicious these cookies are. Love the pictures and the twine. 
These look delightful! And green tea and white chocolate are such a good match together Nami!
Hmmm…. I love your variation on adding green tea in your cookies!!!!
LOVE this post, thanks for sharing Nami.
Aww! I love these pretty green color cookies you baked and also how you presented them!
Hope you’ve an enjoyable get-away with your family!
Yum! I can imagine green tea and white chocolate being a great combination.
I just posted my matcha post then came to check your site, and it seems you have one too! Yours is much better though
I love the photos, and I think it looks really nice with twine!
What cute little cookies (and delicious too!)…loving the presentation here Nami!
Green tea cookies!? These sound so interesting! I love how they came out too – so beautiful!
These are so gorgeous! Your photos came out beautifully. I need to get some macha to play with.
Don’t get me started on cookie photography. I find them impossible to shoot in an interesting way, although you’ve done a great job – I guess it’s all about finding the right background colours which compliment them (reds and blacks, and then earthy tones are perfect for green cookies). This matcha seems to be doing the rounds at the moment – when it’s not in powder form is it sometimes in little tiny strips? I seem to remember my ex girlfriend drinking a lot of something like this and the name sounds really familiar.
Beautiful cookies – the texture really reminds me of a type of cookie they sell in France called “sablée” which apparently translates to shortbread, but isn’t quite the same!
Yes Japanese call this type of cookie “Sabure” as well. But for search purpose, I changed it to cookies (people here won’t search this type of cookie “sablee”).
Matcha should be always very refined powder form as it is finely milled. I’m trying to think what kind of tiny strips you are talking about…
Happy to see you baking! Gorgeous color on those cookies. I think you did a great job on the photos, but I agree, cookies are a tough subject! Hope you are having a great weekend. Cold up here in the mountains!
great pics of those gorgeous cookies! I can see why you were excited…I have never had any baked goods with green tea, but I do have some matcha and really should give it a try…I do love green!
I love these, Nami! Could you send a dozen my way?!
this cookies looks greenie beautifuly healthy nami! Too pretty to eat!
what to do? I’m loves green!
Tq fr sharing dear, will make it as soon as I can
Nami, your cookies are fabulous. I am wanting to have some. I particularly like the colour. Very nicely done!
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Wow love that colour and presentation, what a unique type of cookie!
Hi Nami, this green tea cookies looks fabulous!!! looks yummmm … a great present for Christmas Thanks for sharing this.
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I know you’ve said before that you aren’t much of a baker, but for a woman who doesn’t bake, these look FANTASTIC! These would make for such pretty christmas cookies. I actually really like the twine on the cookies vice ribbon, it makes them look more rustic and homemade. These are so pretty and I bet they taste great!
I can smell the matcha scent from here!!
You should bake more often, Nami. Those cookies sure look like a winner! And believe me, you don`t need those pretty ribbons because your food are already amazing as they are!
I think your cookies turned out amazing Nami! They’re such a beautiful shade of green
Hi Nami – they sound divine. I like your use of twine, it’s sweet and not too fussy. The color of the cookies is gorgeous.
LL
P.S. We’re both posting GREEN!!
LL
Ohhh yum!!! I still have some matcha powder left from making your ice cream! And we all love white chocolate! I should give these cookies a try! They look so cute! I love their green colour! And I am sure the sweetness of white chocolate will go great with matcha!!
Oh I love everything green tea! The addition of white chocolate makes it even more special! Your styling looks great
Nami you are turning into a baker! These looks great, I do a similar recipe with Mac Nuts and the last time I made it I added in matcha too. YUM!
These look stunning, Nami! Love the color and presentation is just fantastic!!! I have to look for matcha powder to try these real soon!!! Thank you for the inspiration and for sharing it with all of us!
Nami I just love the green color of these cookies….
I bet they taste divine…
Lovely just Lovely…
Nami, wow… your cookies looks so delicious and the green color is so beautiful. Lovely presentation too.
You have done a wonderful job with the cookie pics and they are looking so delicious!
White chocolate is my favourite chocolate and green tea is my fave ice cream so I can imagine how tasty these cookies will be!
The cookies look very pretty! They must be very good too. I made matcha checkerboard cookies sometime back and I love them. Such a pretty color!
Three words: oh my goodness! They look gorgeous! Ok, that’s 6 words, but totally worth it!
These are the most interesting looking cookies I’ve seen in ages. I absolutely love the color!
I tasted matcha ice cream once, and have been hooked. Gotta get some of this matcha powder and try this whip up these delicious cookies
Hi Nami,
Your cookies look so delicious and pretty. White chocolate and green tea is an interesting combination. I hardly bake and make desserts. Japanese desserts in Tokyo are too tempting and very easily obtainable. Your cookies do inspired me!
I’ve just fallen in love with you. I love green tea and white chocolate together. I need to make these cookies and SOON!
Nami, your cookies are just beautiful and your photos are stunning!! The first time I had green tea in a dessert, my husband (boyfriend at the time) brought a green tea cake with white chocolate frosting to a holiday dinner at my house. It was amazing. These cookies remind me of that!
How delicious do these little babies look? I love matcha and with white chocolate – ooooh yeah!
Big big thumbs up for these cookies, Nami! I have to rehash what others have said – love to see more of your baked goods because they are such a treat! You’ve just triggered some great ideas. There are truly so many things we can do with matcha…really enjoyed this post (great pictures and the recipe!)
Oh Wow! I love the color of these cookies! So vibrantly green! Will try making these delicious looking cookies for the chinese new year! I am sure my family will love these!
See Nami, you are a talented baker as well! These look awesome. I love making match cookies and I have tried them with white chocolate before and really loved them. Yours look so perfect! I agree with finding the best matcha and how lovely the green color will look if you use quality matcha!
Great recipe and once again awesome photos!!!
I think you did a great job with the pictures.
I will have to look for that green tea, I hope I can find it to try this treat
I want to make these I want to know could you convert the amounts into cups,tablespoon and teaspoon ect? I don’t quite understand how to measure them in grams.
I didn’t have a scale in the kitchen before because I am not much of a baker, but I really believe some desserts need accurate measurement to get the refine result so I purchased the scale. I’m very hesitant to share the cup measurement because it’s rough number… but here you go.
2 1/8 cups all purpose flour
2 Tbsp. matcha powder (I remember it was less than 3 but more than 2)
2/3 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup + 1/16 cup powder sugar (it’s 9/16 cup which doesn’t make sense so I divided).
I hope this helps!
“1/16 cup powder sugar”
There are 16 tbsp in 1 cup so you could list this as 1 tbsp of powdered/icing sugar.
Thank you so much A_Boleyn! This is so helpful!! I’m not very good with converting (as you can see). Thanks!!
I appreciated the conversion that you did as I don’t use weights in my cooking either (I really should buy a digital scale one of these days) and would have had to do the conversions from scratch.
Hi, Nami san. I love anything comes with matcha!! What a dreamy combination of matcha and white chocolate. Lovely photos!
What a creative (and FESTIVE!) cookie!
these look sooooo cute!
The cookies look really great and the pics look good too, popped over here from kankana’s blog and am glad , you have a wonderful site here .
I now have matcha and plan on making a number of desserts with it: madeleines, panna cotta, ice cream and of course, these cookies because the contrast between the vibrant green of the batter and the white of the chips is just stunning.
These cookies look absolutely adorabe! I must find some good quality matcha powder! Great photos too!
I wish the powder wouldn’t be so expensive
Namiiii~~ you’re really great!! *scream*
D really~
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I love your blog
your recipes are great as you are..
Once again, matcha recipe *dies* surely will try this!!
THANKS THANKS
Hi Nami, my 2 girls has been a fan of green tea cookies since they tried it at a friend’s place last CNY. This year they are bugging me to bake some and I googled for a easy recipe and saw your posting. Immediately I gathered all the ingredients and started baking. Must say its a big hit with the girls, loved the bright green color! 2 thumbs up!
Hi Jocelyn! Aww I’m so happy to hear you and your daughters enjoyed the cookies! Yes they are beautiful colors and it’s not too sweet either. I love any sweets with matcha, and I hope to share something more using green tea one day. Thank you so much for taking the time to give me feedback.
Hi Nami!
I was wondering if these cookies will turn out soft and chewy or hard. And which cookies do you suggest these green tea ones, or the vegan style on your blog as well?
Hi Eric! It’s more like sable cookies. It’s not soft or chewy like typical American cookies. It’s hard to suggest which one as everyone has preference. I tend to like crunchy cookies while my husband prefers soft kinds…
The original recipe of the green tea & white chocolate cookies is from the famous cookbook, and the vegan cookie recipe was a guest post by my fellow blogger who’s famous for making excellent baked goods so I am sure her cookies are really good, too.
It’s up to you.
I’m sorry I can’t be helpful…
Okay, Thanks, do you think these textures are eatable for the elderly? I was hoping to make these for my grandma. She is unable to bit on such hard foods.
I see. I have a grandma who likes cookies and sweets, so I understand your concern.
It won’t be hard like biscotti or Japanese rice crackers. You can break with hands easily. It’s not chewy so it won’t stuck on teeth. I think it should be okay. My grandma would be able to eat this (referring to one with white chocolate chips). 
Awesome
Thanks Nami!
YOu did great on the photos! The last one has great depth of field and even with the twine (who knew?) it looks fab. I want to make them NOW but lack, would you believe, the choc. chips! I have the Matcha that i bought at the Japanese garden in DelRay FL. Awesome place.
Hi Nami! Great job on the photos! I love the vibrant green on the cookies. I was wondering if you are able to convert the recipe into cups, tablespoons, and teaspoons for me as I’m unsure how to measure/convert them into grams.
Thanks. =)
Thank you Candice! As I mentioned in my response (my comment #105), I rather not to provide recipe with cups/Tbsp, etc since it is NOT accurate. So please understand it’s not very precise recipe.
2 1/8 cups all purpose flour
2 Tbsp. matcha powder (I remember it was less than 3 but more than 2)
2/3 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup + 1 Tbsp powder sugar
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