I’ve been sitting on this recipe for over six months and finally got around to making it:
(Martha suggests a leaf shape, but it’s almost Halloween so I used a bat!)
Mark described them as ‘adult cookies,’ which I would have to agree with. As soon as you pick one up, you can smell the butter, but the taste is more akin to the green tea ice cream that you get in a Japanese restaurant. There is not a lot of sugar in these.
Best of all, they can be made very quickly and don’t require a counter full of ingredients and measuring implements. The one specialty item you need is matcha, powdered green tea. I bought mine at a local shop where we buy all of our loose tea, The Path of Tea. They sell their teas in 2oz increments, which is enough for several batches of these cookies.
Mark and I once went to a Valentine’s Day taping of Martha’s show, where the audience consisted of couples who had met online. We weren’t really Martha watchers, but it was a lot of fun. We were all asked in advance to wear red, and when they finished taping that episode, they asked us to cover our red clothing so they could tape a segment for a future show. This was done with limited success, so if you’re ever watching a rerun and most of the audience seems to be wearing red for no apparent reason, now you’ll know why!
