Matcha Sugar Cookie Trees!

It’s almost Christmas time and you don’t know what cookies to leave out for Santa! What about some matcha Christmas trees?! They’re festive AND Santa can get a little energy boost from the matcha ;)

There are a few tried and true recipes I’ve found over the years and this rolled sugar cookie recipe is one of them. For these matcha trees I made a few substitutes.

Here is the recipe, I made three simple changes.

1) I halved this recipe because it makes A LOT of cookies. Even halving the recipe still gave me about 2 dozen and even more if I made the trees thinner

2) I used brown sugar instead of white sugar

3) I added in matcha powder gradually until I liked the green color of the dough

An important note about this recipe, it is much easier to roll the dough if you refrigerate the dough for several hours or overnight. Then, a little flour on your work surface makes it so much easier!

And that’s it! Super simple!

Matcha Miso Cookies!

Green Cookies?!

I often talk to people about matcha and many people want to consume matcha in other ways besides drinking it. I love the ceremony around whisking a warm bowl of matcha. But, there is also a place for matcha in our food. Many recipes include infusing which is pretty simple, but nothing is simpler than putting matcha in food and drinks because all the work has been done for you. Matcha being in powder form allows you to be able to incorporate it in everything more easily!

If you’ve read this blog and the recipes in it you probably can tell I’m a bit of a fan girl of Adriana over at A Cozy Kitchen. I one time made these cookies from her blog that were miso white chocolate chip cookies. They are amazing! When I was looking for a simple recipe to get me back into blogging and I thought that matcha would be such a delicious flavor with the miso!

I want you to check out her original recipe because this is such a cool concept for a cookie and she deserves all the credit! While you’re there make sure to check out some of her other delicious recipes!

Miso White Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (since changed to chocolate chips)

I only changed a few things to get these cookies to be green!

-I used all brown sugar instead of white and brown

-I used bittersweet chocolate chips, only because I personally am not a fan of white chocolate. White chocolate chips do have a nice flavor though with the miso and matcha

-I added about 2 tablespoons of culinary grade matcha

One more note about these, Make sure to check them because the bottoms get browned very quickly, adding another layer of parchment paper helped too!

These cookies marry the delicious taste of miso and matcha but with a sweet harmony. You get the bite of matcha but you still feel like you’re having dessert! I think that if drinking matcha isn’t your favorite and you still want to have matcha in your life, this might be the recipe for you ;)