Healthy Matcha shortbread cookies (vegan)

These Matcha shortbread cookies are one of my all time favorite cookies and definitely a favorite among my friends as well.

The dough in this recipe comes together easily with the help of a food processor. The hardest part is waiting for them to cool when they are fresh out of the oven. And they’re even better with white chocolate chips which would be a play on my original White chocolate matcha cookies!

Lil’ bun loves her shortbread cookies and always tries to take advantage of any time she can get her hands on them.

I, on the other hand, have never been too fond of the ever so classic shortbread because I always found them to be boring.

I mean most of the time they are either vanilla or chocolate flavored and while some adore the butter-iness of them, I always found them to be too crumbly for my liking.

But I’ve been on this journey lately where I’m trying to give everything a second chance and rediscover what I like and don’t like again so I decided to give shortbread cookies another shot.

While I am all about everything in moderation, I couldn’t get past the fact that an ample amount of butter is essential to any good shortbread cookie. Not that butter is necessarily bad for you but if you’re anything like lil’ bun and want to eat them by the batch, you need to be a little more conscious of what you’re consuming.

So, this is my attempt to create a healthier version of the cookies she adores so much. Even though they’re made with nutritious ingredients, I promise that you won’t be able to tell that they’re a healthier version of the classic.

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Matcha shortbread cookies recipe