Matcha Chocolate Chip Cookies with Spelt Flour
A healthier and not too sweet take on a choc chip cookie with an intriguing green tea flavour. I give you this recipe for matcha chocolate chip cookies made with spelt flour.
As some of you may know, I’ve been drinking matcha for the last few days. I’m taking part in the teapigs #MatchaChallenge which involves consuming half a teaspoon of this amazing green tea every day for two weeks.
But it now feels like it’s time for a change from just drinking matcha. I want to bake with it too. I thought I’d make something that was portable, would fit in a lunch box and was not too unhealthy. Matcha biscuits with spelt flour and dark chocolate chips were my solution to this conundrum.
Rather than incorporate chocolate throughout the biscuits, I chose chips so the beautiful green matcha colour could shine through. The photos don’t really show the green, but it was very much there.
Matcha Spelt Chocolate Chip Cookies
As soon as I started creaming the butter and sugar for these matcha spelt chocolate chip cookies, I realised I should have used coconut oil and rapadura instead. This would have given an even healthier and no less delicious new year matcha cookie. Oh well, next time.
The biscuits turned out just as I’d hoped, crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle with a lovely green hue to them. There was no mistaking the matcha flavour which went well with the dark chocolate.
The spelt gave a slight nuttiness and bizarrely the biscuits almost tasted of peanut butter. Managing to eat two and half large cookies to get my required half teaspoon, was a little much, even for me; a hot cup of matcha green tea remedied the situation.
For a vegan version and without the chocolate chips, take a look at this recipe for vegan matcha cookies.
Other Matcha Recipes You Might Like
- Christmas butter biscuits
- Christmas chocolate bark
- Greenies aka matcha blondies
- Matcha green tea cheesecake pots
- Matcha madeleines
- Spelt scones with matcha
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Choclette x
Matcha Chocolate Chip Cookies. PIN IT.
Matcha Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 100 g unsalted butter softened
- 100 g golden caster sugar (I used cardamom sugar)
- 1 large egg (I used a duck egg)
- 100 g light muscovado sugar
- 150 g flour (I used half wholemeal spelt, half white)
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch Himalayan pink rock salt
- 3 tsp matcha green tea powder
- 75 g dark chocolate drops or chopped chocolate (I used 70%)
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg.
- Sift in the flour, baking powder, salt and matcha. Stir until just combined.
- Stir in the chocolate.
- Leave in a cool place to firm up a little.
- Place tablespoons of batter onto a lined baking tray (I made 15) and form into a rough circle.
- Bake at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4) for about 12 minutes or until the cookies are firm. Allow to cool for a few minutes, then move to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Tea Time Treats has gone off piste this month and is actually all about lunch boxes rather than a groaning tea table. These matcha chocolate chip cookies work well, both in a lunch box and for afternoon tea. CT can attest to both. It’s hosted this month by Janie over at The Hedge Combers, but Karen of Lavender and Lovage will be taking a keen interest too.
With matcha to the fore, I reckon these qualify for this month’s Treat Petite, which is all about Healthy Treats. This is hosted by Cakeyboi alternating with The Baking Explorer.
Innovation and Discoveries is the theme for The Biscuit Barrel this month. Having felt rather forlorn last month when I baked something for this challenge, only to find it wasn’t there, I am now super excited to find that Alexandra over at The Lass in the Apron is holding the fort whilst Laura finishes off her degree. Very sensible.
These sound delicious! It’s been a long while (few years) since I’ve baked with matcha so I think a revival is in order. Love that you’ve used spelt and added in chocolate (of course!) Must give this a try.
Oh, a revival is a must Ros. If it wasn’t so expensive, I’d bake with it more often.
Aren’t they a brill colour? I am surprised just how much I love matcha in baked items, given that I don’t enjoy it as a drink.
Well I thought so CC, but I couldn’t get the camera to reflect it. I do like the tea, but I love matcha in baking.
Healthy and sweet in one big mouthful. Yes please
That is my ultimate aim Bintu 🙂
Ooh I bet you were thrilled with that green hue in your biscuits! I keep seeing your Matcha challenge around the internet – Impressed with your dedication (as I sit down with an English Breakfast Tea at 11pm!) x
Ah, last day today Helen. It’s not really a hardship as I like it and have never really got on with ‘normal’ tea.
Wow these sound delish! I’m no stranger to matcha, I’ve been drinking (and cooking with) it for years but I’ve never cooked with spelt before! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Haha Emmy, not quite the response I was expecting 😉
They look yummy and I thought they had a slight green tint in the picture but I thought it was my eye until I read that
Oh thank you Nicola, I’m so glad you spotted the green – they looked much greener in reality 🙂
Cooking and baking with matcha and other teas seems to be huge at the moment! I really MUST try it!!!
You mean you HAVEN”T Kate???
I have never heard of it before and these sound like great lunch box fillers.
Thanks pinkoddy – always happy to spread the matcha word 😉
This is a perfect way of using Match. They sound delicious and of course with a hint of cardamom, really lovely. GG
Thanks GG, I’m not quite sure how I got on before I discovered cardamom sugar 😉
Oooh, they look gooood! And you’re right, just perfect for a lunch box Tea Time Treat too!
Thanks so much for sharing Choclette 🙂
Janie x
Thanks Janie. if there were any left, you’d be able to indulge in one too.
I love the combo of green tea and chocolate and you used my favourite grain in these cookies…absolutely amazing!
Oh yes me to Angie. I’ve been using spelt flour for years.
Love the sound of the cookies !! Deffo trying those !
Rachael
Thank you. Do let me know how you get on if you do make them.
What a great idea to add matcha to cookies! Must try 🙂 x
Thanks Sylvia – love matcha in baking.
i have never even heard of matcha never mind tried them , sounds delightful though will have ot give these a try
Ah well, now you’ve heard of matcha, you can become super healthy lisa 😉
oooh, matcha cookies, I love these… love the subtle green colour too, they’d go so well with my kitchen which is always important in a cookie I find…
Haha, matching kitchen and cookies Dom – doesn’t that mean you need blue cookies?
You couldn’t manage two cookies? You are slipping, lol! I’m enjoying seeing your experiments with matcha, pushing the boundaries.
Thanks Janice. You know me, I like experimenting, but I have to say it was more fun with matcha a few years ago, when it was less familiar than it is now – here in the UK at least.
The cookies sound fab, a great grab and go if you are in a rush (always) I’ve not tried matcha yet…
Haha, you and me both Karen. Matcha is definitely worth trying – at least once 🙂
Love the sound of the cardamom sugar, do you just mix and leave like making vanilla sugar?
Yes Anna. Leave a good handful of cardamom pods in a jar of sugar and just keep topping up. it gives it a gorgeous citrus scent and a subtle flavour.