Recipe: Matcha Langues de Chat (Thin Matcha Biscuit Cookies)

Recipe: Matcha Langues de Chat (Thin Matcha Biscuit Cookies)

Posted by Aki on 17th Nov 2022

Tealife Recipes

How to make French style thin Matcha biscuit cookies (Matcha Langues de Chat) (updated!)

How about a simple snack to go with your Coffee? Langes de Chat made with Matcha will be a fantastic choice! In this article, we'll go over a simple way to bake these tasty treats that would work perfectly for your afternoon teatime.

This recipe will make roughly 50 pieces of delicious cookies of about 3cm in diameter. We use the Aoarashi Matcha Powder from Marukyu Koyamaen as it produces fantastic results! If budget allows, I also recommend the Isuzu Matcha powder for this as well. The taste and color will be even better!

  • Recipe Name: Thin Matcha biscuit cookies (Matcha Langues de Chat)

For this recipe, we require the same amount of egg white, butter, sugar and cake flour. In this case we used egg whites from 3 M sized eggs which amounted in 98 grams, so we'll measure 98 grams for the other ingredients as well.

  • Ingredients:
  • Preparation:
    1. Keep the egg white in the refrigerator until use.
    2. Measure all ingredients.
    3. Sift and mix the Matcha powder and cake flour.
    4. Soften butter to room temperature.
    5. Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees Celsius.

Step by Step guide:

1. Making the cookie dough.

Mix the softened butter until creamy

2. Gradually add the sugar as you mix.

Gradually add the sugar as you mix

3. Gradually add the egg white as you mix.
It's important to add the egg white little by little so the egg white mixes well with the butter.

Gradually add the egg white

4. Add the pre-sifted Matcha and cake flour

add the pre-sifted Matcha powder and cake flour

Continue to mix until green

5. pipe cookies

Prepare cookie piper

Pipe to make 2cm size round cookies

Looking yummy already!

Bake in oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.

6. Serve and enjoy!

Take out of the oven

Serve and enjoy!

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