Recipe: Perfect HANAMI DANGO Cookies

HANAMI DANGO Cookies. Great recipe for HANAMI DANGO Cookies. These are snow ball cookies (Mexican wedding cakes), but it imitates Hanami Dango. You can make one microwave plate worth of cookies. It is the iconic pink, white and green dango on a stick, there is even an emoji for it on iPhones! This special tri-coloured dango is sold year around, but is especially popular during the spring during the cherry blossom viewing.

Hanami dango is a traditional Japanese dessert (a.k.a. wagashi) that is eaten during cherry blossom viewing. It is shockingly easy, requiring only four basic ingredients. Dango is a type of sweet that is essentially like balls of rice on a skewer, very similar to mochi. You can have HANAMI DANGO Cookies using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of HANAMI DANGO Cookies

1. It's 100 g of Unsalted butter.
2. Prepare 60 g of Sugar.
3. You need 130 g of Cake Flour.
4. Prepare 20 g of Corn starch.
5. It's to taste of Vanilla extract,.
6. It's 2 tsp of Kinako soy bean flour.
7. It's 1 tsp of Matcha green tea powder.
8. Prepare of Sufficient amount of Confectioners' sugar, to roll out.

Hanami dango is also gluten free and vegan! In Japan, the end of March to April is the time of viewing and appreciating cherry blossoms ("hanami"). People go to parks where a lot of cherry trees are and eat and drink under the trees. It is enjoyed during cherry blossom viewing ("Hanami") in Japan and it's a popular sweet especially in spring!

HANAMI DANGO Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Shift together flour and corn starch..
2. Microwave the butter until it's melted. Combine the sugar and butter together..
3. Combine flour and corn starch with a spatula..
4. Divide the dough into 3. Add vanilla for one dough, add kinako for another, and add matcha for the rest. Form each dough into small balls..
5. Place each color of cookie dough through wooden skewers. Place on the parchment paper..
6. Wrap handle of skewer in an aluminum foil so it does not catch fire..
7. Bake about 10 minutes. The cookies shouldn't be browned..
8. When it cooled, roll in confections' sugar..

These are snow ball cookies (Mexican wedding cakes), but it imitates Hanami Dango. Hanami dango are a sweet treat that is eaten during Hanami. In Japan, Hanami is the the time of year when people come together to watch the cherry blossoms bloom. Over the years, dango matcha cookies have been made into all sorts of shapes and sizes but I prefer the traditional cookie-on-a-stick method. These are snow ball cookies (Mexican wedding cakes), but it imitates Hanami Dango.