INGREDIENTS

• The Meringue Cookie
• • 3 Egg Whites
• • ¼ tsp salt
• • ¼ cup superfine cane sugar
• • 1¼ cup icing sugar
• • ¾ cup fine ground roasted cashews
• • 1 Tbsp Aiya Matcha Culinary Grade Powder
• Matcha Butter Cream
• • 1 cup room temperature vegan butter
• • 1 Tbsp Aiya Matcha Culinary Grade Powder
• • 1 Tbsp almond milk
• • ½ cup icing sugar
• Matcha Cashew Crumbs
• • 1 cup fine ground roasted cashews
• • 1 Tbsp Aiya Matcha Culinary Grade Powder

DIRECTIONS

• The Meringue Cookie
• 1. Pre-heat oven to 300°F and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
• 2. Whip the egg whites with the salt until stiff and then slowly add in the fine cane sugar. Whip until the sugar has melted into the egg whites. In a separate bowl mix together the Matcha, icing sugar and ground cashews. Add the cashew mixture into the egg whites and mix well.
• 3. Transfer the meringue mixture into a piping bag with a round 1 cm tip. Using a 2 inch round cookie cutter as a guide pipe round cookies on a baking tray leaving an inch in between each cookie.
• 4. Bake 30 minutes until the edges are golden and the cookies lift up from the baking tray easily. Transfer each cookie to a wire rack to cool. Then match each cookie with it’s best partner.
• Matcha Butter Cream
• 1. Dissolve the Matcha into the almond milk. In a separate bowl whip the butter with the icing sugar. Add in the Matcha milk a teaspoon at a time whisking in between each addition. If it starts to separate, add more icing sugar and whip again.
• Matcha Cashew Crumbs
• 1. To make the Matcha cashew crumbs mix together roasted unsalted cashews with Matcha powder in a food processor until you get find crumbs. Transfer the crumbs into a shallow dish.
• Put it All Together
• 1. Spread the butter cream on one side of a cookie. Top with another cookie. Spread any excess butter cream all over the sides and adding more to coat all over. Spread more butter cream on the top of the cookie and on the bottom. Dip the whole cookie in the Matcha cashew crumbs until it’s coated all over. Repeat for the rest of the cookies.