Recipe
Matcha Cookies
Soft-centred cookies with a bit of chew, brown-butter flavour and matcha running through the dough. No fancy steps – melt, mix, bake.
Want them sweeter, less sweet, bigger, smaller or vegan? Tap the AI button and tell it exactly what you want.
Brown-butter matcha cookies
The matcha gives colour and flavour, the brown butter keeps them tasting like proper bakery cookies.
Ingredients
Use this as a guide, not a contract. Small swaps or tiny changes in amounts won't ruin it.
- 115 g unsalted butter
- 120 g light brown sugar
- 80 g white sugar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 egg
- 190 g plain flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1–1.5 tbsp matcha powder
- 150 g milk chocolate chips or chopped milk chocolate
Method
- 1
Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat until just browned around the edges (or simply melted). Tip into a bowl to cool slightly.
- 2
Whisk in brown sugar, then white sugar and a squeeze of honey until glossy. Add the egg and whisk until smooth.
- 3
In a separate bowl, whisk flour with baking soda and matcha until evenly green.
- 4
Fold the dry mix into the butter mixture until just combined. Stir in milk-chocolate chips or chopped chunks.
- 5
Scoop onto a lined tray, spacing well. Bake at 175–185°C for 11–16 minutes until the edges are set and the centres are still soft.
- 6
Cool on the tray a few minutes, then move to a rack to finish setting.
Pull them out when the edges are set but the centre still looks a bit soft. They firm up on the tray as they cool.
Gear that helps (optional)
You can bake these on almost anything. These bits just make it a bit easier and more repeatable.
Heavy baking tray
A solid tray helps the cookies bake evenly and brown around the edges.
Baking parchment
Stops the cookies sticking and makes it easier to slide them off to cool.
Cookie scoop or spoon
Keeps the cookies roughly the same size so they bake at the same speed.
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Quick questions
Can I skip the brown butter step?
Yes. Just melt the butter gently until liquid, let it cool a bit, then carry on. You lose a bit of nutty flavour but the cookies still work. Ask the AI if you want a version using softened butter instead.
Don't like matcha / want less?
Drop the matcha down or swap some of it for cocoa. If you tell the AI what you like – more chocolate, less green tea – it can give you a custom version in one go.
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