Matcha, Pistachio & White Choc Chip Cookie

Stuffed with pink white choc ganache topped with dried rose petals and pistachio orange zest brittle

Recipe By: Chevonne Fourie
Portions:  Makes 6 cookies

INGREDIENTS:

Cookie dough

125g Clover butter
100g brown sugar
75g white sugar
3 eggs 
5ml vanilla essence
300g cake flour
15ml baking powder
1g salt
45ml matcha powder
Green food colouring
100g white chocolate chips
100g toasted pistachio nuts
½ cup finely ground roasted pistachio nuts

Pistachio brittle
1 cup sugar
¼ cup water
50g roasted pistachio nuts
Zest of one orange
Salt

Choc ganache filling
300g white chocolate
1/3 cup full cream
pink food colouring

Toppings / Garnish
Dried rose petals
50g white chocolate

METHOD:

Pink chocolate ganache filling

  • To a glass bowl add the cream, chocolate and pink food colouring. 
  • Melt over a double boiler until smooth.
  • Pour into a bowl and set in the fridge until set.
  • Once set, spoon and weigh out 20g balls of filling, store on a tray in the freezer until use.

Cookie Dough

  • In the kitchen aid cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 
  • Add in the eggs and vanilla, mix well. 
  • In a bowl mix the flour, baking powder, salt, matcha powder and fine pistachio powder together.
  • Add the flour mix into the butter mixture. Mix until combined.
  • Add in the roasted pistachios and chocolate chips. Mix through. 
  • Weigh out 120g balls, flatten and stuff with one of the weighed-out filling rolling the dough around the filling evenly. 
  • Rest in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
  • Bake at 180 degrees for 15 – 17 minutes. (more frozen will bake longer)
  • Remove from the oven and cool.

Pistachio brittle:

  • Place the sugar and water into a pot. Melt over very low heat until completely dissolved. 
  • Once dissolved, bring to a high heat and simmer until amber brown.
  • Pour the sugar out on to a Silpat mat in a thin even layer. 
  • Sprinkle with roasted pistachio nuts, salt and orange zest.
  • Once sugar has cooled enough to touch but still hot, pull into thin shards. 
  • Leave to set.

Assembling the cookie:

  • Drizzle the cookie with melted white chocolate.
  • Sprinkle with dried rose petals top with pieces of the brittle shards.
  • Blend the remaining of the brittle until a chunky powder and sprinkle the cookies and plate for decoration.