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Whether you’re celebrating St. Patrick’s Day or any day, these Matcha Green Tea Chocolate Chip Cookies will answer your green cookie dreams! They’re taking chocolate chip cookies up to a whole new level. Plus they’re gluten-free!
If these cookies aren’t a tip off that St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, then you are either not as big a fan of St. Paddy’s Day as I am, or your eyes have frozen shut in this arctic tundra weather.
I feel pretty strongly that green food ought to be eaten all day every day, but for obvious reasons I am sharing these today. They’ve also got me reminiscing on past St. Paddy’s Day debaucheries…
In my 25 years I have accumulated my fair share of St. Paddy’s Day stories. From infamous green beer food poisoning with Eseids (it totally wasn’t the green beer but drinking it certainly didn’t help) to passing out well before 6:00 PM every year, St. Paddy’s Day has yet to disappoint.
I love any holiday where it’s acceptable to day drink and be in bed at a reasonable hour. I also love coming up with natural ways to colour food, so basically St. Paddy’s Day is my jam. Green pancakes anyone?
I strongly suspect that this year will be no different. Considering I will be celebrating in the heartland of St. Patrick, this is just about guaranteed.
This year C and I will be visiting our best friends who are currently living in Dublin. When the fantastic four are together, it is always an epic time but when you throw in the whole throngs of people drinking on the streets of Ireland I’m gonna guess that this trip is going to be one for the memory books.
These Matcha Green Tea Chocolate Chip Cookies were made in prep for the trip. I needed to get my green cookies down so I could pack a suitcase full of them for Sab and Sam, and I wanted to make sure that matcha in cookies tastes as awesome as they sound. FTR, they do.
Sab loves her green tea ice cream and chocolate is her faveeeee so these were made entirely for her! I’ll keep you guys posted on how they go over, if I make it out alive…
PrintMatcha Green Tea Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 20 cookies 1x
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups oat flour (ground oats)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2–3 tbsp matcha green tea powder (use more or less depending on taste preference)
- 1/3 cup dairy-free chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine oat flour, baking soda, sea salt and coconut sugar.
- In a separate bowl combine coconut oil, applesauce, egg and vanilla.
- Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry.
- Stir in matcha powder.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap and place in fridge for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Scoop out balls and flatten onto a parchment or silicone-lined baking sheet.
- Place 1 tray into the oven and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool on tray for 5 minutes.
- Place on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Repeat until all batter has been used.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
O M G that receipe looks awesome ! I’m a huge matcha lover and I knew it was possible to make some fluffy cakes with but I did not know about cookies. I’ll test it soon with my Uji powder. Thanks ! :p
Hi Davida, just baked these today and they didn’t turn out green. It was chocolate brown instead. I followed the steps but altered some ingredients as it was the only thing available (used vegetable oil, and light brown sugar). Before baking them, they had a green hue, but after baking 10 mins it was chocolate brown :(. Does coco oil keep the green color? The flavour is perfect, it’s my kind of cookie.
Hi these sound really good! Can you sub pure cane sugar for the coconut sugar?
thanks, Davida! i’m trying this recipe tonight 🙂 any ideas what i could use to substitute for the apple sauce?
Just discovered your blog and I absolutely love your recipes! Can’t wait to try this cookie recipe out 🙂
xxx Emily
https://www.monodays.me/
Aw thank you Emily! I’m so happy you stopped by! Enjoy the cookies 🙂
Is the cooking time 315F or 375F? I can’t tell if that is a one or a seven?
375!
I baked these today following the recipe. They look great, but we found them to be quite dry and granular. Any suggestions?
I have so much oat flour leftover from Fuel Tribe and figured you’d have a cookie recipe on here calling for it. Voila, magic. Totally making these.
Thanks girl 😉 Hope you enjoyed!
This recipe is interesting!!!
Thank for sharing.
Looks really yummy