High Altitude Matcha Chocolate Chip Cookies
These matcha chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy with a subtle hint of flavor and a natural green color from matcha green tea powder. This is a very quick and easy recipe, with no mixer needed!
All recipes on Curly Girl Kitchen are developed for high altitude at 5,280 feet. See FAQs for adjusting to higher or lower elevations.
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar, lightly packed
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour, fluffed, spooned, and leveled
- 1 tbsp culinary matcha powder
- ¾ tsp coarse Kosher salt (If using table salt, use half the amount)
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¾ cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a saucepan on the stove. In a bowl, whisk the hot melted butter with the granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla, until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, matcha powder, salt and baking soda. With a spoon or spatula, stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, stirring just until no more flour remains. Let the dough sit at room temperature to cool for 10 minutes.
- Stir the chocolate chips into the cooled dough. The dough will be thicker now than it was before cooling.
- Divide the dough into 12 portions using a large cookie scoop with a 3-tbsp capacity. Shape the dough into balls, and flatten slightly with the palm of your hand. Refrigerate the dough balls for exactly 25 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place the chilled dough 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Bake the cookies on the center oven rack for about 10-11 minutes, until the edges are set, but the centers are slightly underdone.
- Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
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Notes
Cool cookies completely, then store in an airtight container for up to 3 days, or wrap well and freeze for 3-6 months.
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