Creepy Halloween Green Tea Shortbread
These cookies look right back at you with edible eyeball sprinkles, but the fun comes from the color of the green tea in these shortbread cookies.
Servings: 30 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ½ tbsp matcha powder
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 10 tbsp unsalted butter softened
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 package small Wilton candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Mix the softened butter, matcha, and sugar together in a stand mixer until fully combined.
- Add in the flour and egg yolks, and mix on low until just combined but the dough comes together, do not overmix.
- Shape the dough into a ball and wrap tightly with plastic wrap. Let chill in fridge for 30 minutes (or overnight if you prefer).
- Preheat the oven to 350 and clear off a surface to roll out the dough. Lightly flour the countertop.
- When the dough is chilled, flour your hands and use a rolling pin to roll the dough on the floured surface until it is about half an inch thick.
- Use a cookie cutter (any shape, but I used a 1 ½" fluted edge circle cutter) to cut out pieces. Use an offset spatula to transfer the cookies to a cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper. Re-roll the dough and re-flour the countertop as needed until all of the dough is used.
- Bake the cookies for 12 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and immediately and gently press however many eyeballs you like into the hot surface of each cookie.
- Let cool and serve.