Matcha biscuits with white chocolate
Soft on the inside, with a cracked top and sweet chocolate chips.
Preparation
15 min
Cooking
12 min
Total
27 min
Servings
18
Level
Easy
White chocolate is the perfect match for matcha: its milky sweetness tempers the herbal bitterness, whilst the matcha counteracts the cloying sweetness that chocolate can sometimes have on its own. For baking, use culinary-grade matcha — ceremonial matcha would be a waste here, as its subtlety would be lost beneath the butter and sugar anyway.
The secret to a cracked top is chilled dough and a well-preheated oven. Dough straight from the fridge spreads more slowly, so the top sets before the centre and cracks.
Ingredients
115 g butter, softened
100 g cane sugar
50 g white sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
190 g wheat flour
8 g (2 tsp) culinary matcha
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
a pinch salt
120 g white chocolate, chopped
Preparation
1
Cream the butter with both types of sugar for 2–3 minutes, until the mixture lightens in colour and becomes light and fluffy.
2
Crack in the egg, add the vanilla and blend for a little longer until combined.
3
In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, sifted matcha, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Be sure to sift the matcha — otherwise, dark lumps will remain in the dough.
4
Combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients and mix just until the flour has disappeared. The longer you mix, the harder the biscuits will be.
5
Stir in the white chocolate, cover the bowl and place it in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Chilling the dough results in thicker biscuits with a nicely cracked top.
6
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Shape the dough into balls the size of a walnut and place them on a baking tray 5 cm apart — the dough spreads quite a lot.
7
Bake for 11–13 minutes. The top should be matt, and the centre should still be noticeably soft — the biscuits will finish cooking on the baking tray.
8
Leave them on the baking tray for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack. Straight out of the oven, they’re too fragile to handle.
