[ENG] Soft Matcha (Green Tea) Cookies with Matcha Chocochips Filling

In the previous blog post i wrote about how i made my matcha chocolate chips, so it's time for the cookies! The original recipe actually use white & milk chocolate for the filling but i'm gonna use matcha chocochips instead since i want them to be super matcha-ey. If you're a huge matcha fan, you gotta try this cos they turned out amazing! Well, aside from the texture issue, which i'm gonna tell you at the end of this post, the flavour is super good. 

But, it's really important to use a really good matcha powder for this, so try your best to find the best quality matcha powder :) I got mine from a famous matcha store in Japan (it costs about 10 USD for 30 grams, and it's only the food grade one). I also tried to make the cookies with a cheaper matcha powder from a local online shop, but they're not even nearly as good.  

[ENG] Matcha (Green Tea) Chocolate Chips

I'm quite a hardcore matcha fans, when it's come to matcha sweets, either if it's chocolate, ice cream, cookies, etc, i always expect intense matcha flavour in them. I got 2 cans of really good matcha powder straight from Japan so i'm really excited to explore & make various sweets with them! 

I searched for recipes on Youtube and found this Country Ma'am Soft Matcha Cookies by Ochikeron. Country Ma'am is a quite popular soft cookies brand in Japan, but i never get to try their matcha one though ^^ It's basically a soft matcha cookies with bits of chocolate inside. But i personally don't like to mix my matcha sweets with any other flavour like chocolate or even anko (sweet red bean paste), so instead of white & milk chocolate i'm gonna make matcha chocolate so these cookies will be super "matcha-ey" yeayy....!

I actually got the matcha powder from my bf, he's studying in Japan so i asked him to get me a really good matcha powder when he was going back to Indonesia for holiday. It costs about 10 dollars for 30 grams, kinda expensive but worth it :)

And it's really important to use a good quality matcha powder if you really like the intense matcha flavour in your chocolate.  Each of these chips is like a tiny burst of matcha flavour & it's super good!

You can also make matcha chocolate (not chips) in the similar way i guess, just pour the melted matcha chocolate into a chocolate mold & let it harden. Well actually if you wanna do it "the right way" you have to temper the chocolate, which is kinda complicated, but if you just make it for your personal consumption, it doesn't really matter ;)

Homemade Vanilla Extract - The Taste Test

click here for the english version of this post ;)

Sekitar 5 bulan yang lalu gw melakukan "eksperimen" bikin vanilla extract (ekstrak vanila) pake vodka & vanilla beans (buat yang belom baca post-nya, bisa dibaca disini). Sebenernya gw cuma harus nunggu 2 bulan sampe vanilla ekstraknya jadi, tapi gw lupa dan 5 bulan berlalu... lol Tapi gapapa sih, soalnya di resepnya dibilang boleh ditaroh lama dan makin lama malah makin enak rasa vanilanya hehe...
 

[ENG] Homemade Vanilla Extract - The Taste Test

About 5 months ago i did a little "experiment" on making homemade vanilla extract using vodka and some vanilla beans (if you haven't read the blogpost, please read here). Actually i just had to wait for 2 months for the extract to be ready but i totally forgot about them and 5 month passed... lol But it's all good since the recipe tells me that i can "age" them as long as i want and it'll get better & more infused with the vanilla flavor.