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Hojicha Shortbread Cookies

Hojicha Shortbread Cookies

Hojicha is a roasted green tea that has been popular as an everyday tea in Japan. Although it’s a green tea, the color of leaves and brewed tea are orange/brown. Hojicha has a distinct sweet and nutty aroma, and it tastes mild and smooth. With less caffeine content than a regular green tea, it’s a wonderful tea to drink any time of the day.

Even though hojicha sweets are not as well known as matcha desserts, we started to see more hojicha infused baked goods lately. Here we made Hojicha Shortbread Cookies (ほうじ茶ショートブレッドクッキー) with just 4-ingredients. The flavor is similar to early grey tea cookies, but the fragrance of roasted green tea comes through, and it tastes really nice. You can make the cookie dough ahead of time and keep it in the freezer if you like. It’s perfect for sharing, or you can bake a dozen now and another dozen later. If you like our Matcha Cookies, you should give this a try!

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Yuzu Madeleines Recipe

Yuzu Madeleines

Madeleines are French sweets that are a cross between cookies and cakes.  They are usually baked in shell-shaped molds or a special Madeleine pan with shell indentations.  We flavored this traditional French concoction with fragrant Yuzu citrus peel.  The distinctive Yuzu citrus aroma is unusual but a surprisingly good match with the buttery rich cake.

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Soba Bolo Recipe

Soba Bolo


Soba Bolo is a Japanese cookie made from buckwheat (Soba) flour, sugar and eggs.  It is a simple cookie with a nice buckwheat aroma that has been enjoyed for years and years in Japan.

Soba Bolo’s name came from Bolo, or “cake” in Portuguese. Bolo the western dessert was brought into Japan in the 16th century by Portuguese missionaries/traders.  Bolo has changed its form over time, and eventually it became one of Japan’s own sweets.  Bolo in Japan today indicates more cookies than cakes, and also a kind of cookies that are light and crispy.

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Matcha Green Tea Cookies Recipe

Green Tea Cookies Recipe

If you are a beginner for Japanese desserts and not so sure about jumping into sweet red bean paste concoctions, Green Tea Cookies might be the perfect place to start.  Most people are familiar with western-style cookies, and this is certainly in the same family.  It just has less butter and more flour (two different kinds, cake flour and cornstarch).  Because of that, the texture of the cookies is more powdery, and the texture might be a little different from what you are used to.  Also it’s not overly sweet.  Nonetheless, it tastes good (and Japanese)!

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