Today we want to show you how to use butterfly pea powder to prepare these pretty blue cookies. They’re crispy, colourful, and delicious — we’re sure you’ll love them so much you’ll come back for more!
Butterfly pea powder is an all-natural blue powder made from pulverised dried butterfly pea flowers.
Also known as blue pea or Asian pigeonwings, butterfly pea is a vibrant blue flower native to South and Southeast Asia.
The flowers contain lots of blue pigments, called anthocyanins, which are also powerful antioxidants!
You can find culinary butterfly pea as dried flowers or a fine blue-violet powder. They should be available at your local Asian food store, or you can easily find them online.
Butterfly pea powder is the go-to choice for these blue cookies, as you can easily mix it with the other ingredients.
A teaspoon of the powder is enough to give the cookie dough a vibrant blue hue, but you can also increase or decrease the quantity to get a lighter or darker shade of blue. So, have fun with it!
As for the other ingredients, we used coconut oil and plant-based milk instead of the classic butter and cow milk.
This means these blue cookies are dairy-free, egg-free, and 100% vegan — perfect for everyone to enjoy!
We’ll also give you the option to make the cookies sugar-free using zero-calorie erythritol, a safe and natural sweetener we use in many of our sugar-free recipes.
In our recipe, we rolled out the cookie dough thinly to get light and ultra-crispy cookies. Feel free to make them thicker and pepper them with white chocolate chunks to get classic soft cookies!
Just don’t cook them for too long, so you won’t affect the final colour. Super precise recipe instructions are below, so just follow along without worries!
And if you’re looking for more delicious recipes with butterfly pea powder, try these blue chia pudding, butterfly pea cake, and blue latte!