Matcha Shortbread Cookies

• 3/4 c powdered sugar
• 5 oz butter
• 1 tsp butter flavoring
• 1 3/4 c flour
• 4 medium egg yolks
• 1 1/2 tbs matcha green tea powder
• 1 c or so granulated sugar

1. Whisk together green tea and powdered sugar.

2. Cut butter into small squares. Add the butter and green tea/sugar mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix until smooth and light in color. Add butter flavoring, and mix in well.

3. Fold in flour, and mix in.

4. Mix in egg yolks, but don't over mix.

5. Refrigerate dough for at least thirty minutes.

6. Preheat oven at 350°.

7. Pull out dough and roll out until about 1/2" thick. Cut out into squares, or using cutter.

8. Put granulated sugar in bowl, and drop each cookie into bowl, covering the outside in the sugar.

9. Put on cookie tray and cook for 12-15 minutes, or until edges are golden brown.

I need a place to put my really good cookie recipes so I can always snag them. So I'mma start doing that. I just made some fantastic cookies.

Peanut Butter Munchies

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 2 tbsp granulated sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Stir together flour, cocoa powder and baking soda; set aside.

2. In large bowl, combine 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar, butter and 1/4 cup peanut butter. Beat with electric mixer until combined. Beat in egg, milk, vanilla and almond. Beat in as much of the flour mixture as you can with mixer. Stir in any remaining flour mixture. Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls; set aside.

3. For filling: In small bowl, combine powdered sugar and 1/2 cup peanut butter. Beat until smooth (if necessary, use your hands). Shape into one ball per ball of dough.

4. To shape cookies, slightly flatten a chocolate ball and top with a peanut butter ball. Shape chocolate dough around peanut butter filling, completely covering filling. Reshape into ball. Repeat with remaining chocolate dough balls and peanut butter filling balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Dip bottom of glass in 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and flatten each ball slightly.

5. Bake about 8 minutes or just until cookies are set and tops are slightly cracked. Let cool.




Now I just need a cookies icon.

I'm gonna level with you guys. I'm a little tired of making cookies. I have a huge bowl of cookie dough left, though, so I'm certainly not done.

I've made mint chocolate chip cookies. mint white chocolate chip cookies. mint dark chocolate chip cookies. And again am now making mint chocolate chip cookies.

Despite the fact that I kept measuring wrong, the first batch of the mint chocolate chip cookies all turned out really well.

The rest? Hum. They vary from tray to tray. So I hope some of you guys aren't that picky. I'm not going to make the sugar cookies, because I don't think I have the patience for making even more cookies. Or the room to store them. I have made a fuck ton of cookies (thus far I've completed eight batches, according to the recipe, and am working on four more).

wtf i just cut my foot somehow while writing this. it's starting to hurt.

Anyway, tell me what type of cookies you want out of those three while I clean my foot up.

Edit: Oh yeah, and I bought the KHS Mocha today. He's SO cute and tiny. Since my last bike was Pierre, the Mocha is Pierre II? Maybe I'll change his name. He's so cute. You guys don't even know. I have to take pictures. He's a folding bike, and he already has fenders and a rack to put a basket. He also has the itty bittiest wheels, and only weighs about forty pounds. He has six gears, and an ADORABLE little bell. I also bought new lights, which are tiny and perfect for him. I gotta take pictures.