Upgrade your s’mores with flaky matcha shortbread!

3 matcha s\'mores on a white plate with squares of matcha graham crackers in the background.

Am I the only one who hates the Hershey bars that everyone buys for s’mores? The chocolate never melts even when you plunge it into the center of a toasted s’more, so you always get this weird hybrid of gooey warm marshmallow and cold, rock-hard chocolate and the ratio is all wrong.

A bowl of matcha sifted with sugar next to a bag of Aiya matcha.

A vibrant block of matcha dough on a silpat mat.

Matcha graham crackers cut out on a silpat mat.

Here, I made s’mores 3 ways: traditional (normal chocolate), chocolate-dipped (I melted chocolate and coconut oil together for a magic shell-like layer) and with a spoon of chocolate pudding smeared over one cracker.

The pudding version reigned supreme with my tastebuds, but chocolate rant aside, using good-quality matcha also definitely helps with the finished product. I’d be v curious to try the matcha cookies with white chocolate too. In my humble opinion, matcha and marshmallow is a combo knocking on heaven’s door, so you should get on these crispy yet tender, vaguely flaky, sort of good-for-you (the health benefits of matcha could wallpaper my room!) cookies stat!

A matcha s\'mores on white parchment paper.

Notes

I tried these cookies with olive oil and they were just not the same–coconut oil combined with the almond extract adds a subtle perfume to the cookies that balances the grassy notes of the matcha. Make sure to sift your ingredients since powdered sugar and cornstarch can be clumpy and you want the matcha to be smoothly incorporated! The fork marks are not only for decoration but also to keep giant air bubbles from ballooning through your cookies (which happened to me anyway, but they’ll deflate out of the oven). Feel free to stamp these out in 4-leaf clover shapes for next St. Patrick’s Day since I think that would be the second most perfect usage for these.

Thanks Aiya Matcha for sponsoring this post, and thank you for reading, as always! All opinions are my own, and I think this socially-conscious, family-owned matcha company is very cool and worth checking out.

Three open-faced matcha s\'mores on a white plate.

Matcha S’mores

Erika Kwee

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 15

Total Time 35

Ingredients

For the matcha shortbread:

½ cup + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
¼ cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1.5 teaspoons Aiya matcha powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons coconut oil melted
¼ teaspoon almond extract
1-2 teaspoons water

To assemble:

~6 marshmallows
dark chocolate or your favorite chocolate pudding

Instructions

Make the shortbread:

Sift the flour, powdered sugar, cornstarch, matcha and salt together. Whisk in the coconut oil and almond extract in the center of the dry ingredients to form a paste, then gradually incorporate the rest of the dry ingredients. If dough is too crumbly, add additional water 1/2 teaspoon at a time.
Roll out dough to about 1/4″ thickness. Score the cookies in a square pattern and use a fork to stab a few holes in each square.
Bake at 325 for 12-14 minutes, or until cookies are still soft to touch, but are just barely brown and set around the edges. Let cool before breaking along your scored lines.

To assemble:

Preheat broiler to 475 and place marshmallows on a small greased baking sheet. Broil until golden, keeping an eye on them the entire time. Sandwich each marshmallow between two cookies with a smear of pudding or a block of dark chocolate and eat!