[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] Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Chunks Soft Cookies

Last week i've been craving for really good soft & chewy cookies. They don't really sell soft cookies here in Indonesia (well maybe in some special supermarkets, but not the local ones), so i decided to make it my self. I found this awesome recipe on TheSquishyMonster Channel on youtube. It's really interesting recipe since she uses brown butter and the cookies are stuffed with chocolate caramel candy! I did end up going to the special supermarket to get the brown sugar & the chocolate (strangely they don't sell local brown sugar here, but palm sugar is everywhere), but hey, freshly baked homemade cookies will taste even better than a store bought one! I also replace the vanilla extract with a vanila bean, just because i have many left from my previous vanilla extract experiment.

And they turned out amazing! I did think the texture will be soft & chewy, but they turned out to be more cakey than chewy, so it's a little minus for me there, but the overall flavor was beyond my expectation. They're so so good. This recipe also requires you to mature the dough for at least overnight, so i had to be real patient, but it's definitely worth the wait! I think i can easily eat the whole batch on my own, within a day lol