Name: Matcha & Chocolate Shortbread
Yield: Makes about 25 shortbread
Ingredients: 7 g (1 tsp) matcha (green tea powder), plus extra for dusting; 60 g (2 oz/¼ cup) caster (superfine) sugar; 125 g (4½ oz/1¼ sticks) unsalted butter, cut into cubes, at room temperature; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) tempered fine dark (bittersweet) chocolate, to coat; 185 g (6½ oz/1¼ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted

Preparation info

Makes about
25
shortbread

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Couture Chocolate

By William Curley

Published 2011

About

Being Scottish I love a bit of shortbread and Suzue being Japanese loves matcha (green tea powder), so it felt natural to combine the two.

Ingredients

185 g (6½ oz/1¼ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted
125

Method

1 Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F/ Gas 3). Put all the ingredients, except the tempered chocolate, into a bowl and mix until the ingredients come together in a dough.

2 Remove from the bowl. Roll the dough to 5mm (¾ inch) thick on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 4cm (1½ in