Recipe: Tasty Genmai (or Other Tea) Snickerdoodles

Genmai (or Other Tea) Snickerdoodles. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? The distinctive mix of flavors and aromas make this tea a soothing choice. Made in the USA Genmai-cha is a blend of traditional green tea and roasted brown-rice Actual product packaging and materials may contain more and/or different information than that.

It is sometimes referred to colloquially as "popcorn tea" because a few grains of the rice pop during the roasting process and resemble popcorn, or as "people's tea". Give new meaning to "tea and cookies" with this loose tea-infused snickerdoodle recipe. Instead, I used finely ground loose tea leaves (English breakfast, but Earl Grey or another black tea would work well), and added it both to the dough and to the cinnamon sugar coating for the cookies. You can cook Genmai (or Other Tea) Snickerdoodles using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Genmai (or Other Tea) Snickerdoodles

1. 🢂 2 of +3/4 cups all purpose flour.
2. 🢂 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
3. 🢂 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
4. 🢂 2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened.
5. 🢂 1 of +1/2 cups sugar.
6. 🢂 2 of large eggs.
7. 🢂 4 Tablespoons of (about 8 packets) genmai cha for the batter.
8. 🢂 2 Tablespoons of (about 4 packets) genmai cha to sprinkle atop.

If your snickerdoodles come out of the oven already looking well-done, you may have left them in a bit too long. The trick is to underbake them just slightly. Some people swear by adding in cream cheese to snickerdoodles to make them even more delicious. Place rice and measured water in a heavy pot.

instructions Genmai (or Other Tea) Snickerdoodles

1. Preheat oven to 350F..
2. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside (if you have a stand mixer, you can do the sifting while the butter and sugar are beating)..
3. Put butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Mix in eggs. (You can use a hand mixer with the regular two beaters if that's what you've got.).
4. Reduce speed to low; gradually mix in flour mixture and 4 Tablespoons genmai cha. Cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour and up to overnight to let the tea flavor steep in the dough..
5. Shape dough into 36 (1-inch) balls. Space 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper (or a silicone baking sheet) and sprinkle the tops with a pinch of genmai cha. (You can also just lightly butter and flour a cookie sheet first.).
6. Enjoy! :).

First cook rice without lid at high heat until the water boils. Stir and reduce heat to low. Genmai Matcha green tea is blended green tea with roasted brown rice, roasted soy beans and matcha powder. The greatest feature of this tea is fragrant aroma and roasted flavor. Since ground cinnamon plays such an important role, be sure to check that it's still fresh and spicy before making these treats.