Matcha Black Sesame Cookies

 


My family loves the flavors of matcha and black sesame so they really liked these cookies. Instead of storing them for 4 hours before baking, I ended up only storing them for 2.5 hours before baking. I baked these for 10 min and 30 seconds.

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Ingredients

 

Matcha Dough

1.5 cups flour

2 tablespoons matcha powder

3/4 teaspoons salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg yolk

 

Black Sesame Dough

1/3 cup black sesame seeds

1/2 cup granulated sugar

3/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter

1.5 cups flour

 

Directions

1.       Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

 

Matcha Dough

2.       Combine flour, matcha, salt and set aside.

3.       Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy (~ 2-3 min). Add egg yolk and whip to combine. Add the flour mixture. Scrape dough and pat into a 6 x6 inch square.

 

Black Sesame Dough

4.       Combine flour and salt.

5.       Pulse the black sesame seeds and sugar in food processor and pulse for 25 seconds.

6.       Cream butter and then add black sesame/sugar mixture. Can add to the same bowl as the matcha dough and do not need to rinse the bowl after processing the matcha dough. Add the flour mixture.

7.       Scrape dough and pat into 6 x6 inch square.

 

Prep Cookies

8.       Store both matcha and black sesame dough into fridge for 30 minutes

9.       Unwrap and I placed matcha layer on bottom and black sesame layer on top. I then cut it into 6 strips. I then placed 1 matcha/black sesame payer on top of another one so that there were 4 layers- matcha, black sesame, matcha, black sesame.

10.   I pressed the layers together and wrapped with saran wrap. I left it as rectangular strips instead of shaping them into circles.

11.   I left them in fridge for 2.5 hours (NY times says to store for 4 hours).

12.   I cut them so that they were 1/8 inch thick and baked for 10 min and 30 sec at 350 degrees.

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