Looking for an easy and yummy dessert to bake for you and your family and friends? Matcha White Chocolate Chip Cookies are the new thing that you should bring into your life! The recipe is fairly simple, so you really only need a basic sense and experience with baking. With this easy recipe comes a warm dessert that is sure to bring smiles onto your faces.

The recipe has minimal steps and basic ingredients that are fairly inexpensive. My slightly altered version of Teak & Thyme’s 5-star recipe requires simple ingredients. It calls for:

• 6.35 ounces (oz) of flour
• 1 tablespoon of ceremonial grade matcha
• 1 tablespoon of milk powder
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder 
• ½ teaspoon of baking soda
•  ½ teaspoon of salt 
• 4.05 oz or a stick of slightly softened butter 
• 5.3 grams of granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
• 3.52 oz or a bar of white chocolate 
• ¾ cup of chopped macadamia nuts

The process is also fairly easy to complete. Firstly, for the beginning and the process of the dry ingredients:

1. You have to make sure to preheat the oven to 350° F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper. 
2. Then, in a medium-sized bowl, add in all your dry ingredients: flour, matcha powder, milk powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. 
3. For the next step, if you have an electric mixer, use that, but if you don’t own one, you can do it by hand with a whisk. It’ll probably just be more difficult once the ingredients reach a very tough texture. 
4. With your electric mixer or by hand, mix together the slightly softened butter with the sugar until you reach a fluffy consistency, which you should obtain after four minutes. 
5. In that fluffy mixture, add in your egg and vanilla extract and shortly mix until you have a couple of flour patches left in the blend. 
6. After you fully complete your separate bowls, slowly add in your dry ingredients and mix until fully combined. 
7. For the fun part, in my opinion, start adding in your chopped white chocolate and instead of whisking the dough, use a rubber spatula to combine the two and make sure not to overmix. 
8. After your chocolate and dough are combined, do the same process with your macadamia nuts and make sure not to overmix or the dough won’t be the right consistency in the end. 
9. After all of your ingredients are incorporated, you can refrigerate your dough overnight for an even better outcome of the flavor, texture, and a more chewy texture, but if you really can’t hold yourself back, you can refrigerate for 10 minutes then start to form your cookies.
10. Once you take your dough out of the fridge, use an ice cream scoop and scoop some dough out then form your dough into small balls and place them on your prepared tray, with about 2 inches spaced between all of the cookie balls. 
11. You can finally put your cookies in your preheated oven and bake them for about 12-14 minutes or until the edges are golden brown and the middle is still pretty soft. 
12. After you know your cookies have reached this look, take them out and allow them to cool on the tray for 10 minutes. 
13. When they have cooled, you can transfer them to a wired rack for a better cooling system or you can even start trying out your new snacks or giving them out to your loved family and friends. 

My friends are always asking me if I’m starting on a new batch and when I’ll be able to bring some to school just so I can make lunchtime even better with these fun desserts.

I have indulged in this recipe many times ever since I discovered it through social media. It has been a favorite of mine as well where I get people constantly telling me to start on a new batch because of how good they are! 

“My favorite drink to make and buy is an iced matcha latte, and to be honest, matcha is one of my favorite things. Yet, I never thought to try white chocolate matcha cookies until I was given some. The flavors are an amazing combination of my favorite things, and the macadamia nuts give it an extra kick!” said senior Kandice Quinones.

“These are honestly probably the best cookies I’ve ever had in a while. They’re not overpowered by any ingredient, and I can get the right taste of matcha in every bite without any sort of gross flavor in between,” said senior Sibgha Swati. “I even gave some to my little sister, and she said they were the best contrast of crumbly and chewy with every bite. I give these cookies a 10/10 on my part, and I hope I eat more in the future!”

Not only can you eat these cookies, you can also utilize them in different ways other than gift-giving. Firstly, you can make ice cream sandwiches with two of these cookies. You just take two cookies and stick a scoop (or two) between them. If you want to treat the matcha cookies like an oreo, instead of dunking them in milk, you can create your own matcha latte or some sort of matcha drink and dunk the cookies to give them a moist consistency with every bite. Finally, you can crumble up a cookie and use it as a topping for cake or any other dessert. You can even crumble them on top of pancakes or waffles for an extra boost in the morning!

With all these benefits on how you can use these cookies in various ways that don’t include just eating them, let’s compare them to famous cookies you can buy from Crumbl Cookies. Firstly, an average chocolate chip cookie from Crumbl Cookies is 560 calories, but some cookies like their recent Holiday Cookie reached 1,200 calories. They are also significantly high in sugar and fat. On the other hand, one of these matcha cookies holds around 272 calories, with a much lower sugar and fat content in comparison to cookies from Crumbl. Not only are the nutrient factors much lower than an average Crumbl cookie, but they are also made with real ingredients whereas Crumbl often contains high fructose corn syrup, various food dyes, and even eight different ingredients in their “all-purpose flour.”

This recipe seriously has made a very joyful impact on my life and the people around me as well. I know in the future I will come back to this recipe, and I hope that you give it a try as well, considering how uncomplicated and delicious the recipe is.