I baked green tea sable cookies today - or rather, I made the dough yesterday morning and baked the cookies today :P Though I've received feedback that they need some improvements in terms of appearance, they luckily turned out tasting quite decent. I love most things green tea, and have tried quite a lot of green-tea stuff, so I think my tastebuds are relatively reliable lah heh.
The baking process was slightly eventful cos I happily assumed that my kitchen had all the basic ingredients I needed - you know, things like eggs, sugar... So halfway through making the dough, I was quite panicky to find out that I only had one miserable egg left in my fridge when the recipe needed two! Thankfully, after some initial reluctance, nice Dad (cos Mum felt embarrassed to do it) helped me borrow two eggs from my neighbour such that the dough-making proceeded pretty smoothly in the end. Also realised this morning that my house no longer stocks white sugar... thus substituted the fine sugar coating with coarser brown sugar. I suppose the light brown crystals could still somewhat pass off as their white counterparts :) Anyways, these are meant only for self-consumption.
This, is what the cookies are supposed to look like, and what inspired me to make them.
The baking process was slightly eventful cos I happily assumed that my kitchen had all the basic ingredients I needed - you know, things like eggs, sugar... So halfway through making the dough, I was quite panicky to find out that I only had one miserable egg left in my fridge when the recipe needed two! Thankfully, after some initial reluctance, nice Dad (cos Mum felt embarrassed to do it) helped me borrow two eggs from my neighbour such that the dough-making proceeded pretty smoothly in the end. Also realised this morning that my house no longer stocks white sugar... thus substituted the fine sugar coating with coarser brown sugar. I suppose the light brown crystals could still somewhat pass off as their white counterparts :) Anyways, these are meant only for self-consumption.
This, is what the cookies are supposed to look like, and what inspired me to make them.
This, is what they looked like... before baking. I was quite concerned whether I put in too much green tea powder (which explains the extreme green-ness). Due to the texture and vivid color, the cookie dough felt like a huge piece of green plasticine heh.
This is how they turned out, a little raw-looking and pretty green.
Cos I had to go out for lunch, froze the rest of my cookie dough for baking another time... I shall try to improve the look of the next batch!
6 comments:
They are yummy! I think they more green cuz you are more generous than the, er, recipe. :)
Yeah shall put less green tea powder next time... maybe they will look more appetizing heh.
think the current color works for st. patrick's day, but not sure that's a big holiday in s'pore?
Nah ppl dun really celebrate that over here...
actually, they do! Well, at least the Irish pubs, and people drink plenty of Guinness that day. ;)
If u only see it in Irish pubs, cannot consider big holiday lah! :P
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