Happy Birthday WT

This green tea cookies is specialty make for my girlfriend birthday. Our friend-ship has been running for 17 Years! And I believe and hope our friend-ship will keep on running till we old. We knew each other thorough primary one and we have been in the same class for 6 years, but we will separated after secondary school however we did not lost contact. I really treasure our friendship rather I would said sister-ship. She more than a friend to me, not just a simple friend.

She love anything that make of mint and green tea. We share the same taste buds, I love green tea too but I dislike mint. I don't like the taste of mint, I don't know why but I just can't accept it.

The instruction given is to roll the dough into a log but the dough keep crack and it's very difficult to cut the logs into thick rounds shape. In the end I gave up and was thinking how to cut out a beautiful round shape cookies as I do not have a round cookies cutter.

I was searching high and low in my kitchen and tadah, I got an idea of using my donut cutter and cut out the round shape, I use the center round part of the cutter. The donut cutter is shown on the top picture.

The green tea taste is fabulous and the cookies is just right of crisp but I find it quite sinful because the ingredient contain lots of butter and sugar.  If you are a green tea lover, give it a try and make this cookies.

*Recipe source:
http://www.amazon.com/Okashi-Treats-Sweet-Made-With/dp/9812617809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344949245&sr=8-1&keywords=okashi

Ingredient:

• 240g Pastry flour or Top flour
• 15g Green tea powder
• 150 unsalted butter
• 130g Icing sugar
• A pinch of salt
• 2 Egg yolk

Method:

1. Sift flour and green tea power together twice. (I sift 3 times)
2. Beat butter, icing sugar and salt until soft and creamy. Add egg yolks and mix well. Add flour and green tea powder mixture and fold in with a spatula. Cover dough with cling film and chill in refrigerator for about 15 minutes.
3. Divide chilled dough in half. Place a portion of dough on a large sheet of parchment paper, then shape it into a log about 3.5cm in diameter. Wrap log with parchment paper. Repeat with other portion of dough. Refrigerate dough until firm. If not using immediately, wrap with cling firm and freeze. Cookies dough can be kept for up to 2 months in the freezer.
4. Preheat oven to 150°C. Cut logs into 7-mm think rounds. (I use the donut cutter unstead of cut out the logs)
5. Place cookies on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake for about 25 minutes, then remove and leave to cool on a wire rack before serving.
6. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 10 days.