Black Spiderweb Cookies with Black Matcha Blend

Charcoal-black butter cookies with a white icing spiderweb. All the colour comes from Black Matcha Blend (cocoa, activated vegetable charcoal, black tea and cinnamon): no colourings, and a background note of cocoa and cinnamon.

Time: 50 min · Makes: 12 cookies · Difficulty: medium

Ingredients

• 150 g plain flour
• 6 g (3 teaspoons) Black Matcha Blend
• ½ teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt
• 80 g soft butter
• 70 g sugar
• 1 egg
• Icing: 80 g icing sugar + 1–2 teaspoons water

Step by step

1. Beat the butter and sugar until creamy, then add the egg.
2. Sift in the flour, Black Matcha Blend, baking powder and salt, and mix into an even black dough.
3. Shape into a ball, wrap and chill for 20 minutes.
4. Roll 12 balls of about 25 g, place on a lined tray and flatten to 1 cm.
5. Bake at 175 °C for 11–12 minutes and let them cool completely on the tray.
6. Mix the icing sugar with the water into a thick icing, pipe 3 concentric circles with a fine nozzle, then drag a toothpick from the centre outwards to make the web.

Tips

• Don’t leave them in “until golden”: they’re black, you won’t see it. At 12 minutes, take them out.
• If the icing spreads, it’s too runny: add another spoonful of icing sugar.

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This recipe needs just one of our products: Black Matcha Blend.