Cookies "Green Apple"

When I saw this cookie, I decided to bake it right away. But for a long time I could not do this, since this recipe uses Matcha tea, which I could not find. I tried replacing it with frozen spinach. It turned out to be very beautiful, and most importantly, very tasty cookies.

Ingredients

• 2 eggs (yolks)
• 170 g sugar + a little for sprinkling
• 150 g butter
• 1 tbsp. l. lemon zest
• 1 tbsp. l. liqueur "Limoncello" (replaced with Creamy)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tbsp. l. Matcha tea (replaced with spinach)
• 350 g + 3 tbsp. l. flour
• For registration:
• carnation
• seeds from apples

Directions

1. Pour boiling water over the frozen spinach for a few minutes.
2. Grind spinach on a grater
3. Drain the water, squeeze the spinach well to remove excess water. Then rub the spinach through a fine sieve. This is difficult to do, but everything will work out.
4. Remove the zest from the lemon
5. Remove the zest from the lemon.
6. Beat egg yolks for cookies
7. Beat the egg yolks and sugar until smooth and fluffy.
8. Adding butter to the cookie dough
9. Add butter and beat well again.
10. Add the lemon zest to the cookie dough
11. Put lemon zest and liqueur in the creamy yolk mass. Mix everything well.
12. Sifting flour
13. Sift flour and baking powder.
14. Adding flour to the cookie dough
15. Combine the creamy yolk mass and flour. Knead a soft dough.
16. Separating the quarter from the Green Apple cookie dough
17. Separate 1/4 of the total amount of dough.
18. Adding spinach to cookie dough
19. Add puréed spinach to a quarter of the dough and knead well. Add 3 tbsp to most of the dough. l. flour (I didn't). Do not knead the shortbread dough for too long.
20. Roll out the Green Apple cookie dough
21. Roll the green part of the dough into a thin flat rectangle or square between two layers of film.
22. Shaping the cookie dough into a cylinder
23. Remove the upper part of the film from the surface of the green dough. Roll the light part of the dough into a cylinder and put the light dough on the green one.
24. Wrap the Green Apple cookie dough with a colored layer
25. Wrap the light dough in green. Pour some sugar on the film and roll the cookie blank over it
26. Wrap the dough in cling film
27. Wrap the dough in foil and refrigerate for 1 hour
28. We bake Green Apple cookies
29. After removing the workpiece from the cold, cut into 1 cm discs. Press each disc a little with your fingers. Make indentations on opposite sides of the disc, imitating an apple. Stick a clove on each side, attach seeds from apples in the center. Place the apples on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes at 170 ° C.
30. Cookies "Green Apple"
31. Bon Appetit!