Impress your hunny(ies) with homemade Green Grass Cookies

Valentine's Day has dawned upon us. 

This year...

Not gonna get Vic a platinum ring
He already has that type of bling
Not gonna get him a fancy car
The Corolla works best when he drives so far

Not gonna get him a house in the hills
A guy like him needs somethin' real
Gonna give him somethin' from the heart
Somethin' not found at the nearby Wal-Mart.....

....

It's my [green heart] in a box.

It's a matcha [green tea] white chocolate macadamia heart [cookie].  My mom asked me why it isn't red "Aren't hearts supposed to be red?". Someone else said it looks poisonous. Someone else said "It's not St. Patrick's day". Well, nothing they can do about it, my heart is green.

This is obviously a very healthy cookie because it is green, so please try out this recipe if you're on a diet:

Ingredients 
(makes 13-17 cookies, depending on the size of your heart)

1.5 tbsp matcha green tea powder

0.25 teaspoon of baking soda

0.5 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature

0.5 cup granulated sugar

0.25 teaspoon of salt

0.5 tbsp of pure vanilla extract

1 large egg

0.5 cups of white chocolate chunks/chips

1 cup of all-purpose flour

40 g of macadamia nuts, roughly chopped

(*note: matcha powder can be found in local Vancouver/Richmond Japanese grocers such as Fujiya or Izumiya. I got mine at Izumiya for $6 (40g). Alternatively, you could pay high dollar at David's Tea for  $20 (50g))

Directions
(cooking time: 1.5 hours for noobs, 30 mins for pros)

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Combine the flour and the baking soda together. Then, mix the matcha powder with the flour mix until the mixture turns a sickly green colour.

In a separate bowl, beat the butter and the sugar until your arm gets tired [light and fluffy]

Add the salt, vanilla and egg and beat until well mixed. Mix in the flour mixture and mix no more flour pockets. Now fold in your white chocolate and macadamia nuts.

 (it looks like cow barf but it gets much better looking later)

Use a cookie cutter to shape the dough into the shape of your heart. Line your baking sheet with parchment paper and place the hearts on neatly.

Bake the cookies for about 13-16 minutes just as the edges start to slightly brown. Since these are grass green cookies, you don’t want it to brown too much otherwise you would lose the green colour.

Cool the cookies for 10 minutes on a wire rack and then take instagrammable pictures like this:

 Happy Valentines Day!