As promised here is an easy recipe for Matcha Green Tea Cupcakes. You can but Matcha green tea powder in every Asian supermarket -  I love the slightly herb and bitter tasted of it.
Oh -  and those of you who live in Barcelona – come to see some amazing art form Markus Haub and taste some cupcakes in lovely fashion store Plisados in Gracia, this Friday(17.7) from 19.00-22.00

Matcha Green Tea Cupcakes
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Ingredients for ca 30 cupcakes:

*360g all purpose flour
*400g white sugar
*1 tablespoon baking powder
* a hint of salt
*2 tablespoons match green tea powder( more if desired)
*230g butter softened
*4 eggs
*240ml milk( I used soya milk)
*1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Preheat oven@ 170º© and line cupcake pans with paper liners.
Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl, then add the butter and stir unitil the butter is completely covered with the flour mix.
In another bowl mix milk, eggs and vanilla, the add the mix in 3 parts to the large bowl of dry ingredients, combing well after each addition.
Fill every paper liner to 3/4 and bake for 18-22 minutes, doing the toothpick test after 18 minutes.
Cool well before frosting.

Matcha Green tea frosting
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Ingredients:
*230g softened butter
*200g cream cheese
*300g sifted powdered sugar
*2 tablespoons Matcha Green tea powder (more if desired)
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Beat the butter together with the cream cheese until creamy.
Add the sifted powdered sugar and green tea and beat until combined. You might need more powdered sugar to reach the desired thickness. Frost the cupcakes

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After a mad week at work I finally used the gift voucher I got over a year! ago for the fabulous Spa in hotel Omm - and treated myself with a relaxing Japanese Green Tea Ritual. What lies closer than showing you my new green tea cookie recipe. The green tea taste is slightly bitter, so I added some melted white chocolate between 2 cookies, which was delicious. Have a great weekend

Green Tea cookies

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Ingredients cookies:
*240g flour
*1/2 teaspoon salt
*1-2 tablespoons vanilla sugar
*50g powdered sugar
*2-3 tablespoons unsweetened powdered green tea (Matcha)
*2 tablespoons soy milk
*240g softened butter
*1/2 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract

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Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
In another bowl mix the butter until creamy and add the almond/vanilla extract, then add the dry ingredients and mix well. Add the soy milk and mix until well combined.
Divide the dough in 2 parts and wrap with plastic film. Let cool for 1 hour in the fridge.

Then add flour on your working space and on your rolling pin and roll out the dough to an approx. 0,7 cm thickness. Use your favourite cookie cutter and place the cookies on a baking paper lined baking tray. Sprinkle some white sugar on them.
Bake for 12-14 min @ 160ºC

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I found an amazing japanese pastry shop in Barcelona! The japanese confectioner Takashi Ochiai came to Barcelona in the 80’s to learn about catalan pastries and opened OCHIAI, which sells incredible traditional japanese and catalan sweet treats As I am addicted to green tea I had to give it a try and made these yummy white chocolate green tea pralines. So easy to make and a really cute gift….

Green tea pralines
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You need a silicon chocolate mold with 15 units

Ingredients:
*200g white chocolate
*2 teaspoons of Matcha green tea powder
*1 tablespoon cream

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Break 3/4 of the chocolate in pieces and warm slowly in a double pot boiler (Bain-marie) @ approx 50ºC until completely melted. Be careful not to heat too much, otherwise the white chocolate can get crumby.
Fill half of the fluid chocolate in the silicone mould.
Then stir the matcha green tea and the cream into the fluid chocolate, stir until well combined and fill in the mould on top of the white chocolate. Break the remaining 1/4 chocolate in pieces and let melt. Then fill in the silicon mould on top of the green tea chocolate. Put in the fridge and let cool for 2 hours…

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I got the “ok” to go to Tokyo in November on an inspiration/shopping trip for work. So exciting!!!!
As a little preview I did these 2 coloured muffins with Matcha green tea powder and white chocolate…

 

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