No butter or eggs required for these Vegan Matcha Cookies. They are crisp, crunchy, sweet, and easy to make. Great snacks for late afternoon... or anytime!.
These are super simple vegan matcha green tea cookies!
Once you put it in your mouth and you will definitely enjoy the matcha flavor and crispy texture.
- This recipe is for you if:
- You love matcha.
- You want to make matcha cookies.
- You are looking for a easy vegan matcha cookie recipe.
All right, let me show you how to make it. If you want to check the recipe, please jump to the recipe card below. Let's get started!
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About this recipe
- Easy vegan cookie recipe
- This will make 40 small cookies
- Cooking time: 25minutes
- Use almond flour
- Crunchy and delicious
📋 Ingredients
Here are the ingredients (amounts are in the recipe card below).
- Flour: All-purpose flour or cake flour.
- Almond Flour: Blanched almond flour. Unblanched almond flour is fine, but it might give too much almond flavor.
- Matcha powder: Please use matcha powder made from only green tea as some matcha powder contains sugar.
- Oil: I use this Taihaku sesame oil squeezed raw and no fragrant aroma like regular sesame oil (squeezed after roasting). You can use any oil that does not have a strong smell or flavor.
- Soy milk: Soy milk is easy to get in Japan, so I often use it for cooking and baking. You can substitute it with your favorite milk.
- Sugar and Salt
🔪Instructions
Let me walk you through how to make it step by step. You can also watch this video.
First of all, preheat oven at 180C/356F.
- Wet ingredients: Place a bowl on the scale, measure oil, soy milk, sugar, and salt.
- Mix: Mix them well with a spatula.
- Dry ingredients: Measure flour, almond flour, and matcha powder.
- Mix: Mix them well with a spatula.
- Make the dough: Use your hand to mix the dough. It's easier to use your hand as the dough is dry and does not stick together.
- Roll out the dough: Roll out the cookie dough to a thickness of 0.5cm or your desired level.
- Cut out: Cut out shapes and place them on a silicone mat. My cookie cutter size is small (3.5 cm/1.4 inches). You can make a large size or any size you like.
- Bake: Place a silicone mat on a baking tray and bake for 15 minutes at 180C/356F.
Here you go! The crunchy vegan matcha cookies are ready! Place them on a cooling rack and let them cool down for some time.
And put them in a container then store for about a week at room temperature.
My oven doesn't cook evenly, so you see uneven browning here and there. The taste is still good, but if you like nice green color, try lowering the temperature to 160 to 170C.
Also, if you want a darker matcha cookie, you can double the matcha powder.
Variations
Arranging one recipe is easier than learning new recipes, and here are some ideas to greatly expand the variety.
- Basic Cookies: Omit matcha power
- Cacao Cookies: Put cacao powder instead of matcha powder
- Whole Wheat Matcha Cookies: Change ¼ flour into whole wheat flour
- Nuts and Matcha Cookies: Mix in chopped nuts (like almond, walnut)
- Matcha Chocolate Cookies: Dip in melted chocolate after baking
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📖 Recipe
Vegan Matcha Cookies
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 15
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 40 cookies 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Japanese
- Diet: Vegan
Description
No butter or eggs required for this Vegan Matcha Cookies. They are crisp, crunchy, sweet and easy to make. Great snacks for late afternoon... or anytime!.
Ingredients
- A 4Tbsp Oil (50g/60ml)
- A 1Tbsp Soy Milk (15g/15ml)
- A 4Tbsp Sugar (40g/60ml)
- A pinch of Salt
- B ¾c All-purpose flour or Cake flour (100g/180ml)
- B 1c Almond Flour (100g/240ml)
- B 2tsp Matcha Powder (4g/10ml)
Instructions
- Preheat: Preheat oven at 180C/356F.
- Wet ingredients: Put A ingredients in a bowl and mix.
- Dry ingredients: Add B ingredients, mix to make the cookie dough.
- Cut out: Roll out the dough and cut out with a cookie cutter.
- Bake: Place a silicone mat on a baking tray, place cookies side by side, and bake for 15 minutes at 180C/356F.
Notes
- Equipment: Silicone baking mat, a cookie-cutter (3.5cm/1.4 inch)
- Storage: Transfer to a container and store at room temperature for one week.
- Substitute: You can substitute soy milk with your favorite milk, such as almond milk or oat milk.
- If your oven doesn't heat evenly, bake for 7 minutes, rotate the baking tray 180 degrees, and bake for the remaining time. That will bake them more evenly without burning.
- If you do not have cookie cutters, you can make a small ball and shape it by pressing it with your palm.
- A silicon mat makes cookies more crispy.
- Soy Milk, Almond Flour, Matcha Powder
- If your dough is too dry, please add 1 or 2Tbsp of soy milk to make it soft.
- *US/M conversion doesn't work right for some ingredients, so please refer to the amount inside () for a more accurate amount.
Keywords: Vegan matcha cookies
Cara
This looks really yummy and healthy! I only have regular sesame oil though. Do you think that will work? Thanks.
Chef JA
Thanks Cara! Regular sesame oil has certain smell and doesn't match to desserts so if you have other oil like rice oil, coconut oil, they might work(haven't try them yet though).
Cara
I tried it with coconut oil and it was delicious!! Thank you so much for this awesome recipe! I love that it is vegan and tasted wonderful. My boyfriend loved them as well. We both had to try hard not to eat too many all at once!!
★★★★★
Chef JA
Thank you so much for trying!! I'm so glad you guys love it! Yeah, same here, be careful not to eat too much 🙂
Josephine
Hi,
I don’t have almond flour, would o be able to use whole wheat flour for the entire recipe? Thank you!
Chef JA
Hi, yes, you can use whole wheat flour but it will not be as crunchy as with almond flour.
If it's still ok, please try!
Zein
Hi,
Can I use rice flour instead of all-purpose flour?
Is it possible?
Thanks☺️
Chef JA
Hi Zein, the dough might not be easy to deal with but yes, it's possible! Let me know how it goes! I gotta try that version by myself too:)
Kim
Thanks for the recipe! I ended up using just canola oil and non-blanched almond flour since that's what I had. The sweetness level was good for folks who don't like very sweet things, but I ended up adding a glaze since we have sweet tooths in our household. I also made the mistake of overworking the dough when I got towards the end of my cookie cutter scraps so my final batch was very tough, but the first batch was the perfect texture when bitten into. If I were to make again, I would maybe try coconut oil instead and 2x the matcha like you recommended for more flavor.
Chef JA
Hi Kim, Thanks for trying my recipe! I'm happy to hear that you are tweaking the recipe with your taste and ingredients you have. Yeah, most of my dessert recipe's sugar level is moderate so feel free to add sweetener! Happy holidays!
Holly
I tried this on New Year morning to bring to vegan friends & was very frustrated. I noted & followed the correction in US measure to 3/4 cup of AP flour, then 1 cup of almond flour. The amount of liquid are much too smll for this amount of dry ingredients. & even after drizzling more oil ( i used grapeseed oil) the dough was impossible to roll. Your video also seemed like you did not add a cup of almond flour, but just a sprinkle. Please help
JURI
Hi Holly, I'm sorry for your frustration... I double-checked the conversion, and I found the amount of oil was a bit less, so I updated the recipe for your next time. It looks like a sprinkle in the video, but I added the amount of almond flour in the recipe. I don't know why the dough is too dry, but if you try next time, please try reducing 1 tbsp of almond flour and AP flour and see what happens. If it's still too dry, add 1 or 2 Tbsp of soy milk. I hope this helps.
Paulina
hi! is it possible to omit almond flour in this? we don't have it where i'm from
JURI
Hi Paulina!Thanks for your comment:) It's not as crunchy as almond flour, but you can substitute it with all-purpose flour or cake flour. Let me know if you try!