Last dessert of the year! We had a skewer grill hangout at the park for an early Christmas since my boyfriend and I were heading to Seattle for christmas. I didn’t want to buy a ton of extra ingredients to make something crazy, so I decided on matcha cookies since I already had a big tub of matcha I bought a while ago. The cookies didn’t turn out green at all (because I didn’t use ceremonial matcha), and the shapes were turn out funny. After decorating, you could still tell they were frogs, but they weren’t as cute as Bianca’s from the recipe she posted. For the second batch, I tried making Shrek since he’s supposed to be green, but the ears expanded in the oven that they turned super round. I did not realize how much cookies spread. I should have learned my lesson from the red velvet sugar cookies I made a while back. The fun part was decorating. I had these glitter frosting tubes in Christmas colors, so I used those as an extra touch of sweetness. They ended up pretty goofy looking, but it adds charm. My friends loved them, and honestly, I was happy they weren’t over baked. Overall, I give this recipe 5 cactuses. It definitely would’ve been better with ceremonial matcha for that rich green color, and I should’ve made the cookies smaller or portioned the dough better for the ears. I had a lot of fun making these, and the recipe itself was a super simple mix-and-bake cookie.