This gluten and totally delicious cookies are Rocco’s fave! Living in Jakarta means that lots of Asian cuisines are represented. Besides the fantastic local Indonesian region food, you can find Korean town, where all the native Koreans go for their bibimbap fix and sizzling bbq nights and we have an authentic Chinatown where you can indulge in noodle bowls. Yes, Jakarta is truly food heaven. The Matcha flavor is well known here and you can find it even in the Starbucks, where they serve Green tea Latte, which unfortunately loaded with refined sugars, so we skip that and rather make our own healthy version right?
Matcha is the name for green tea powder. It’s high in antioxidants, perfect to mix in cookies and cakes, or ice cream, or stir in a cup of almond milk and you will have your own homemade green tea latte. Matcha itself has a somewhat bitter taste, so to make it more child-friendly I always add in some coconut sugar or maple syrup. I promise that these cookies are easy to make, moist and they will cost you less than 20 minutes in total!
Glutenfree Matcha Cookies Recipe
Makes 10-12
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups almond meal (substitute with other wholewheat or oat flour)
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
- 1 flax egg (2,5 tbsp water + 1 tbsp flax meal) or substitute with 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon matcha powder
- 1/3 cup chocolate chip (optional)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 C.
- Combine dry ingredients.
- Whisk the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and combine everything together.
- Roll dough into small balls and place all on a baking sheet, to avoid stickiness.
- Press dough evenly with your fingers or fork.
- Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
- Once out of the oven, let it cool so it can crisp up.
- Enjoy! To keep them fresh, store the cookies in an airtight box at room temperature or in the fridge.
