{"id":3531,"date":"2025-01-15T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:08:10","slug":"matcha-shortbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2025\/01\/15\/matcha-shortbread\/","title":{"rendered":"Matcha shortbread."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this recipe somewhere on the internet long time ago, copied it and resisted making it due to the size of my waist. I&#8217;ve been trying to eat less after Christmas, definitely drink less and snack as little as possible, so butter cookies were not urgent to make, shall we say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I decided to give them a go, the weather is really cold, while at home it&#8217;s warm, clean, cosy and lovely and now it also smells with matcha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used 240g of plain flour and 20g of matcha. 170g of soft butter got creamed together with 120g of icing sugar and a pinch of salt. 2 egg yolks added, then the flour and matcha combo, slowly, bit by bit. 50g of chopped white chocolate, but also a generous handful of unsalted pistachios, not in the recipe, but I had some, I love them, so why not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once all nicely combined I rolled the dough into a couple of sausages with the help of cling film, chilled them in the fridge for over an hour and then sliced and baked in 180 degrees for about 15 minutes. I&#8217;m pleased to say they are not overly sweet, Florek says they would benefit from some more white chocolate, I like them a lot.  I recently chucked my Wilton food colourants, as they were out of date and not used in a long, long time. My palate has changed a lot, those days of indulging in macaroons and baking a couple of times a week are long gone. These days I&#8217;d always choose some cheese and another glass of wine instead of a sweet treat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second coffee of the day is on the horizon, alongside a cookie or two.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this recipe somewhere on the internet long time ago, copied it and resisted making it due to the size of my waist. I&#8217;ve been trying to eat less after Christmas, definitely drink less and snack as little as possible, so butter cookies were not urgent to make, shall we say. Today I decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2025\/01\/15\/matcha-shortbread\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matcha shortbread.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}