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Matcha Holly Cookies (Day 10)

Festive cookies that look like little Hollys and are so yummy. Decorated with red royal icing, they are the perfect holiday baking recipe.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 6 minutes
Course biscuit, cookie, Finger food, High Tea, Party, tea time
Cuisine American, French, Japanese
Servings 48 small cookies

Equipment

  • Mixing bowl
  • Holly cookie cutter
  • Rolling Pin
  • Cling wrap
  • Flat spatula
  • Piping bag

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Vanilla spiced cookie dough recipe day 1
  • 1-2 tbsp Matcha powder (check notes)

Decorate -

  • Red Royal Icing

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 170℃ and line a baking tray with baking paper. In a mixing bowl, crumble the cookie dough and add the matcha powder, start mixing the dough and powder together using a spoon. Once mixed through, knead the dough on a clean work surface until evenly combined.
  • Roll dough out fairly thin (I go thinner than 1/4 an inch) between two sheets of cling film and a rolling pin. Cut out the dough into holly shapes using a cookie cutter. I have used this one here. Bake them for 5-6 mins until done. My cookie cutter is small hence these cookies take a little time to bake. If you are making the cookies large and thicker they will take a few minutes more so keep an eye on it.
  • Let them cool down and pipe a few red dots on the cookies to finish them off. You could do a light dusting of icing sugar as well.

Notes

  • Vanilla spiced cookie dough recipe is linked here.
  • The amount of matcha powder you need is dependent on the intensity of the powder. I used 1 tbsp but you might need more to achieve the green color we need. The Matcha powder I used is linked here.
  • Holly cookie cutter is linked here.