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Keroppi Cookies

November 30, 2011 by Jennifer Che 17 Comments


This post is part of a larger series: An Asian Twist on a Traditional Holiday Meal. Other posts in this series include Chinese Oven Roasted Duck, and Totoro Cookies.

I was obsessed with Keroppi when I was in school.

I loved going to Sanrio stores to see what cool new Keroppi stuff I could buy. My sister and I owned dozens of plush green Keroppis, along with T-shirts, totes, pens, notebooks, etc.

When Bryan first met me in college, he even told me I looked like Keroppi because of the huge glasses that I wore at the time. Hmm . . . looking back, was that really a compliment?

Sadly, Keroppi seems to have fallen out of favor these days. Hello Kitty, who is actually older than Keroppi, is still going strong as ever.  Keroppi, on the other hand, can hardly be found. These days I’m thrilled if I even see one or two Keroppi items in the Sanrio stores.

As a nod to those characters we loved as kids, I decided to bake Keroppi cookies for the GLAD Cookies for Kids Cancer cookie exchange, offered by Foodbuzz’s Tastemakers Program.



Keroppi is green, so a matcha (green tea powder) seemed like the perfect type of cookie to make.

Matcha is finely milled green tea often used in sweets such as green tea flavored ice cream, cakes, and cookies. Because matcha is made from high quality tea buds and requires more time for grinding, it is usually more expensive than other teas. For example, the little 1.0 oz tin that I bought costs $12.
I took a simple butter cookie recipe from The Joy of Cooking (my go-to basics book!) and modified it by adding matcha (Thanks Talida for the inspiration!).
Similar to the Totoros, you also need two “colors” of dough – a green tea matcha one and a plain white one.

If you have concentric circular cookie cutters, you should be able to make these Keroppis pretty easily by picking out the right sizes. Since I didn’t have any of that, I used portions of random cookie cutters I had in order to cut out a rough circle. I used a spray bottle cap to cut out white eye balls as well as cut out half-circles from the green dough. Keroppi is not exactly round, so I usually reshape each one by hand a bit to get it to the right shape.

All assembled!

Using black round sprinkles or nonpareils, place one at the center of each eye ball. You can use tweezers if necessary.

Using something small and flat, make indentations to draw out the characteristic V-shaped mouth. Of course, feel free to give Keroppi any sort of expression you desire. I made just one of my Keroppis sad – can you find him?

Finally, add a tiny bit of red food coloring to a tiny piece of cookie dough. Roll tiny little pink balls and manually pressed them onto each Keroppi. 
Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cookies seem to be done and let cool on a wire rack. I did not want the Keroppi cookies to brown (since I didn’t think it would look good if their eye balls were singed), so I took the cookies out a bit earlier to ensure they would stay green.
Hee hee, aren’t they cute?

These were a lot easier to make than the Totoros, maybe because I didn’t have to make such small eyes!

I hosted the cookie exchange at my house over Thanksgiving (where we also enjoyed lots of other yummy food). I sent my sister’s family home with a GLAD container full of Totoros and Keroppis. In exchange, I was rewarded with lovely whole wheat chocolate chip cookies.

If you want to help GLAD raise money for GLAD will donate $.10 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer for each virtual cookie sold, exchanged or given this November and December 2011 – up to $100,000! Check out their website here for more details.

Enjoy!

Keroppi Green Tea (Matcha) Cookies
dry ingredients
3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

wet ingredients
20 T (2 1/2 sticks) butter (softened!)
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 T milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

2 T matcha powder

1. whisk together dry ingredients in a bowl.

2. In a separate bowl, beat eggs and sugar on medium speed until well blended. Add egg, milk, and vanilla to the “wet ingredients” bowl. Gradually stir in the dry ingredients until everything is well blended and smooth.

3. Divide the dough in two sections, with one section roughly twice as large as the other section. Mix in matcha powder into the larger section. Place each section between two sheets of parchment or wax paper and roll out the dough into a 1/4 inch thickness. Refrigerate until cold, at least 30 minutes.

4. Position oven rack to the center and preheat oven to 375. Grease cookie sheets if they are not nonstick!

5. Peel away the wax paper for one portion and put the dough between fresh sheets of wax paper. [Note, since this is a labor intensive cookie, I would cut the chilled dough in half and leave the other half in the refrigerator until you are ready to cut that one too. The dough becomes harder to handle once it’s warm]

6. Cut the cookies with a cookie cutter. Roll the dough scraps together and continue cutting out cookies. If it gets too soft, just re-roll it out, chill in the refrigerator, and cut once it’s cold.

7. Make Keroppis according to the detailed instructions above. Decorate accordingly.

8. Bake until cookies are just done, around 10 minutes depending on how large the cookie is. Try to avoid any browning of the edges, since it won’t look very good.

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Comments

  1. priyanka bhattacharjee says

    November 30, 2011 at 6:43 am

    Super cute…thanks for the step wise photo….its very helpful 

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  2. Samantha @ Bikini Birthday says

    November 30, 2011 at 10:05 am

    I used to LOVE keroppi when I was in grade school (and high school too actually!). I’m going to have to make these cookies even though they do look pretty tedious.

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  3. Traciechuang says

    November 30, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    I saw Keroppi stuff at Target and thought of you!  In the “dollar” section they have Hello Kitty stuff AND Keroppi and Pochacco!  Not necessarily stuff you need, but I was impressed that they expanded beyond Hello Kitty.

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  4. talida says

    November 30, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    Your cookies are awesome Jen! I wonder how long it took you to make these and the Totoros..

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  5. jentinyurbankitchen says

    November 30, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Ha ha, I think I saw an eraser of Keroppi at Target the other day! I was quite shocked, frankly, but decided I really didn’t need another eraser! 

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  6. jentinyurbankitchen says

    November 30, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    Yay! Yes, I admit to being a fan even now, heh . . .  enjoy making them!

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  7. jentinyurbankitchen says

    November 30, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    You’re welcome. 🙂

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  8. shannon says

    November 30, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    too freaking cute!!  i love them, and have been meaning to play with matcha.  I even have a bit to use!  gotta get on that 🙂

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  9. mengli321 says

    December 1, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Nikeのハイエンドのヴィトン バッグサッカーシューズのシリーズELITEある去年派手な1時、adidasは品質はNIKEに負けませんますが、しかし位置付けの上で風下に降りました。近日、1組のサッカーシューズのスパイはによってadidasの重いサッカーシューズのシューズ 通販王の席に帰る遠大な抱負を暴露しました。adidasはadiPOWER PREDATORが発表すアディダス スニーカーることをきっかけにするを、SLシリーズのトップクラスのサッカーシューズの製品を出して、その中はPREDATOR SLとadiPURE SLを含みました。2足の靴はニューバランス 993すべてF50を採用しました adiZEROの軽量で大きい底、靴の表面の材質も普通な版と違い、大いに重さを軽減しました。さらに加えて再びサッカーシューズの軽量の王冠のF50を奪います adiZERO PRIME,adidasのトップクラスのサッカーのシリーズはすでに準備し出発を待ちました。NIKEとadidasの双雄moncler ベスト間もなく引き離す大きい幕。

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  10. Mandi says

    December 4, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    sooo cuutteee!!

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  11. kay says

    December 5, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    SOOO CUTE and a great cause too! 

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  12. dokuzuncubulut.com says

    December 7, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    These are most cute cookies I’ve ever seen…

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  13. suki says

    December 21, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    my sister loves keroppi, so i haaad to share these with her! 🙂

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  14. 502822948 says

    January 13, 2012 at 10:55 pm

    有名な潮流ブランドアディダスoriginalsは今年native ネイティブ秋に打ち出されたarchivmiumiu 新作 バッグe packをつけていて、二足kopenhagenシューズと、靴の甲を采用uggアグ ブーツ し、高品质の紐

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  15. Christine Tjahjadi says

    April 16, 2012 at 1:24 am

    OMG! These cookies are uber cute!!! I admire your efforts in molding the cookies one by one to get this shape and cuteness! Good job!

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  16. 784546 says

    April 28, 2012 at 4:30 am

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    シューズブランド。CONVERSE SHOPは日本、韓国の街は、製品が。ニューバランス 1300日本の芸能人撮影、ジャックパーセル観光、現地で購入CONVERSE靴が楽しいこと。大陸靑春ドラマ俳優の徐静蕾は銀座CONVERSE東京出会
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    May 3, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    日本においてはプレイヤーはプレイごとゴルフ場利用税が課される。ただし国体の試合や未成年者は免除される。
    初期のゴルフでは現在のような整備されたコースはなく、シャフト 通販モグラの穴を利用してゴルフを楽しんでいたといわれる。またスコットランド地方でゴルフという競技が確立した頃は、r11パーという概念は存在していなかった。何故なら2名のゴルファーが1ホールごとにホール内での打数により勝ち負け(同じ打数の場合、そのホールは引き分け)を決め、テーラーメイド アイアン18ホールまでにどちらが多くのホールで勝ったかを競うマッチプレー方式で行なわれていたため、それぞれのホールに規定打数を決める必要が無かったからである。

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