Almond Flour Matcha Cookies (Vegan, Gluten-Free)

What Are Matcha Cookies?

Matcha cookies are simple buttery plant-based cookies made with matcha powder to give them a striking green color and all the nutrient goodness of matcha.

These healthy vegan Matcha cookies are the easiest cookies to make with only 6 ingredients, no flax eggs, and no vegan butter needed!

How To Make Almond Flour Matcha Cookies

All you need are wholesome plant-based ingredients and 15 minutes.

Ingredients

All you need to make a simple Matcha cookie recipe with almond flour are:

• Almond Flour – use ultra-fine almond flour, not almond meal. In fact, almond meal is coarser and darker in color. It makes dry, gritty cookies, so I don’t recommend this option.
• Maple Syrup or any plant-based refined sugar-free sweetener you love like Monk fruit syrup, agave syrup, or brown rice syrup.
• Vanilla Extract – optional 
• Matcha Green Tea Powder – you can really play with the amount of powder based on your taste. Some people love the intense Matcha flavor in their cookies, and others prefer a light touch.
• Baking Powder or baking soda.
• Coconut Oil – you can use refined coconut oil to avoid the coconut flavor in your cookies.

Making The Cookie Batter

First, preheat the oven to 325°F (160°C) and prepare a large cookie tray covered with parchment paper. Slightly oil the paper and set it aside.

Then, add all the dry ingredients to a large mixing bowl and whisk the almond flour, Matcha powder, and baking soda until evenly combined.

Then, stir in wet ingredients, including maple syrup, almond milk, vanilla, and coconut oil.

If you love Matcha and chocolate, add up to 1/3 cup dairy-free chocolate chips to the batter.

Matcha powder goes very well with vegan white chocolate chips if you can find some.

Baking The Matcha Cookies

Finally, scoop out about 2 tablespoons of cookie batter and roll in your hand palms to form a ground ball.

Place each cookie ball on the prepared cookie sheet. Then, flatten each cookie dough ball slightly.

You want to keep a little bump in the center of your cookies to keep them moist.

Bake for about 15 minutes or until the sides start to brown.

Cooling Down

Let the matcha cookies cool completely on a cooling rack for about 30 minutes.

Decorating Vegan Matcha Cookies

Matcha flavor goes very well with white chocolate.

However, most store-bought white chocolate brands are not vegan and contain butter or milk.

Instead, you can make a lovely vegan white chocolate at home by melting  1/4 cup cocoa butter.

Then, stir in 1/3 cup of powdered sweetened and 1 tablespoon of cashew butter.

Then decorate your vegan, gluten-free Matcha cookies with a drizzle of homemade vegan white chocolate if desired.

Storing Almond Flour Matcha Cookies

These vegan Matcha cookies can be stored for up to 5 days in an airtight box in the fridge.

You will be noticed that the cookies get a bit more sticky with time, and that’s normal.

You can also freeze these almond flour Matcha cookies in ziplock bags and thaw them at room temperature 3 hours before eating.

Allergy Swaps

This recipe doesn’t work with coconut, but you can use oat flour instead of almond flour.

This option provides the same texture.

However, I didn’t try all-purpose flour with this recipe. It may work but create a tougher texture.

How Do Matcha Cookies Taste?

These cookies are entirely made of almond flour, so they obviously have a strong almond flavor and a good Matcha green tea flavor.

They are soft, melt-in-your-mouth cookies delicious with a cup of Matcha latte or my Matcha smoothie recipe.