Green Tea & Coffee Cookies!

Tea is a big thing in Chinese, Taiwan and Japenese culture, just like German has beer, Irish loves whiskey.  It also has special celermory to serve tea.  Because of tea population are very high, so vender create lots product about tea.  If you travel to these country, you will see tea could be add in, from appertize, entree to disser.  Green tea cakes are big hit in the business.  I try to bring the same flavor to the cookies, use vegetable shortening to avoid over powder the tea flavor, confectioner suger make it very crunble.  It'a very simple cookies, lighly sweet, just let the tea speak to itself.

Preparation:  10 minutes.
Baking time: 15 minute for 2 lagest cookie sheets.
Make about 48 cookies.

*  (        ) For Coffee Cookies.

Ingredient :

1. 1 cup vegetable shortening.

2. 1/2 cup confectioner sugar.

3. 1 tablespoon green tea powder.
( 2 tablespoons espresso powder)

4. 1 tablespoon zest from lime.
( 1 tablespoon Kahlu'a)

5. I tablespoon honey.

6. 2 cup all-pious flour.

7. 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Wet Ingredient
Cream vegetable Sh with confectioner sugar in the mixer.

Dry Ingredient
Set a parchment paper on the largest cookie baking sheet. Shift flour and green tea powder (espresso powder) and salt, then add in lime zest all on top of parchment paper.

Set mixer on low speed. Fold the parchment paper in half, carry dry ingredient carefully and slowly add in the wet ingredient. Mix well until it all comes together like dough.

Divide dough by 2 parts. Laid it on the plastic wrap big enough for the log, and make it like 2 inch log for two.
Wrap the cookies dough with plastic wrap, twisted two end like candy wrappers, then again with parchment paper. Keep in the freezer until harden, it will stay more than a month.

Preheat oven 350F degree.

Set the parchment paper.

Sliced the cookie log to 1 cm thick, laid down on the parchment paper keep 1 inch apart. Sprinkle granulate sugar ( light brown sugar ) evenly on top of cookies.

* Do it in good speed, so the cookies dough won't soften, loose the shape.
Bake between 12- 15 minutes when the bottom turn slightly pale brown, and the top are just hard enough to touch. Green tea cookies baked fast than Coffee cookies.

* Cookies are very crumble, so leave cookies on the baking sheet, cool down till you can handle and you won't break it apart! Remove cookies to the cooling racks for totally cool down. Store cookies in air tight container, best taste in a week.