For the longest time I have been interested in putting tea flavours in foods. First it started with matcha, then chai... I've been experimenting ever since! I think tea flavours are so wonderfully delicate and unique, and work especially well in baked goods.
I found this recipe by Peaceful Cuisine for Earl Grey flavoured vegan cookies a few years ago, and have made many variations of it, because it really is a fantastic vegan cookie base recipe. The original recipe, with earl grey and vanilla, is wonderful too, however I decided to put my own little spin on it!
Today I'll share my recipe for my Kinako and Genmaicha cookies, which I have made a number of times before and really enjoyed. They're very quick and easy to make, and I like the fact that the recipe makes only twelve cookies (I find it a bit overwhelming when a recipe has a huge yield... I can never seem to eat everything in time!)
If you're not familiar with kinako powder, it's roasted soybean powder, and is often used in traditional Japanese desserts. It has a very nutty and toasty flavour, and reminds me a bit of 'peanut butter powder' (which I often use in smoothies, actually!) I bought a bag of it a little while ago at my nearby Korean market and was a bit unsure of what to use it for... It's often eaten with mochi, but I rarely have mochi in the house, so that was out of the question. I then began to wonder whether I could use it as a flour substitute, since it does have a very flour-like texture. After doing a bit of research, I found that you could substitute up to a third of a recipe's flour with kinako powder-- perfect!
I thought the roasted flavours of the kinako powder would go perfectly with my favourite green tea-- genmaicha! Genmaicha has roasted bits of rice in it, giving it a wonderfully warm and nutty flavour, so I thought the combination of the two would be ideal.
This light and crumbly cookie is the perfect carrier for these flavours, and the small size makes them the perfect treat to snack on with a warm cup of tea.
I hope you get the chance to try them out for yourselves!
Let's begin ♡
✧ Ingredients ✧
Makes 12 cookies | 90 calories/cookie
✧ 30 g kinako powder (if you don't want these to have kinako, just substitute this with 30 g flour)
✧ 70 g flour
✧ 20 g potato starch or corn starch (this helps give the cookies a light and delicate texture-- if you don't have any on hand, you can omit it and just use 20 g of flour; the cookies should still turn out fine)
✧ 40 g white sugar
✧ 50 g walnut oil (I think the walnut oil has a lightly nutty flavour that goes perfect with these cookies. If you don't have walnut oil, I suggest just using a neutral tasting oil instead)
✧ 20 g soy milk
✧ 1 tablespoon genmaicha, finely ground up (you don't want any large bits of tea in your cookie! Try to pulverize it as much as you can-- I found a mortar and pestle to be very useful for this)
✧1/2 teaspoon baking powder
To make the cookies, mix all the ingredients together in a medium bowl. It will be very crumbly and won't seem like much of a dough, but use your hands to smush and roll it together into a log shape, about 2 inches (5 cm) in diameter.
Wrap it in plastic wrap and place it in the freezer for about 30 minutes to allow it to cool and harden a bit-- this will make slicing it much easier. While the dough is cooling, preheat the oven to 360° F/180° C. Line a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper.
Once the cookies have cooled sufficiently, slice into 12 pieces, and arrange on your baking tray. If they crumble a bit when you're trying to cut them that's alright! Just gather them back together with your hands and shape them back into disks.
I chose to top mine with some black sesame seeds, just so they're a bit prettier (this doesn't add anything to the flavour or texture, but it does make them a bit more interesting to look at!)
After that, just bake them for 15-17 minutes, until they have a touch of colour around the edges.
Allow them to cool, and enjoy!
These cookies have an amazing sweet and nutty flavour, as well as an addictive crumbly and yet light texture! They go perfectly with a warm cup of green tea, and I think they're the perfect thing to have when you're craving something sweet~
I really love this cookie recipe, and hope to make more variations on it in the future! Perhaps you can experiment with it a bit too..! Try out different types of tea, and see if you can find something you love ♡ I think so far, these are my favourite variation!
Thank you for reading, I hope you get the chance to try out the recipe!
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