These matcha cheesecake bars are dressed up as Frankenstein for Halloween with black sesame icing. Make gluten-free cheesecake with a homemade chocolate crust or use crushed up cookies! This Halloween dessert uses only natural green and black food coloring with matcha and black sesame. When Zoella saw me sneaking a bite while I cut up…
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Matcha Macarons with Mango Buttercream
Spring green matcha macarons filled with mango buttercream. These French macarons have a crispy shell with a chewy center and an earthy matcha flavor that complements the almond flour base. The filling balances the flavors with a tart buttercream made with ground freeze-dried mangoes. Our first night in Paris this past November, we had one…
Chocolate Matcha Cream Tarts
These mini chocolate matcha cream tarts have a matcha pudding filling inside a rich dark gluten-free cocoa almond cookie crust with a layer of bittersweet chocolate shell between and pillows of vanilla whipped cream on top! I’m bringing you these chocolate matcha cream tarts as a second Matcha March recipe, this time in collaboration with…
Mint Chocolate Mousse with Toasted Matcha Meringue
Layers of pillowy mint chocolate mousse, crunchy salted almonds and chocolate chunks, and a smooth toasted matcha meringue. Dessert heaven. A simple-to-make, but impressive and luxurious dessert slightly adapted from Pretty Simple Cooking. With this mint chocolate mousse with toasted matcha meringue, I’m kicking of Matcha March 2018 – aka the month where I post…
The Ultimate Guide to Matcha: Benefits, Recipes, and More
This ultimate guide to matcha has all the basics you need to know about matcha! Everything including what matcha is, the health benefits, choosing quality matcha, preparing matcha, and recipes to cook with matcha. Raise your hand if you made some sort of “treat your body better” New Year’s resolution? If you did, good for…
Gluten-Free White Chocolate Matcha Shortbread Cookies
Buttery melt-in-your-mouth matcha shortbread cookies drizzled in a white chocolate garland. Just in time for the holidays, these festive cookies have a light snappy crumb and a deliciously nutty matcha flavor. Oh hi, how many cookies have you eaten so far this month? Whatever your number, I’ve surely got a few dozen on you, which…
Chocolate Mint Matcha Cups
Bittersweet chocolate enrobes soft pillowy matcha peppermint patties in these chocolate mint matcha cups. Perfectly wicked for your Halloween festivities or as a festive holiday edible gift! Do you have Halloween plans yet? Are you dressing up? Carving pumpkins? Passing out candy? Buying candy “for trick-or-treaters” but plan to turn your porch lights out, hide…
Morning Mint Matcha Milkshake (Vegan)
Earthy nutty matcha, vibrantly fresh mint, caramely dates, and smooth creamy coconut combine into a morning mint matcha milkshake worthy of breakfast or dessert. Packed with superfoods like chia, flax, and oats, you can feel good about indulging. Matcha March isn’t over yet just because St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone – it may have…
Coconut Matcha Ice Cream with Black Sesame Brittle Chips
Creamy vegan coconut matcha ice cream studded with black sesame brittle chips. Earthy green undertones with sweet roasted nutty notes that crunch with every bite. So creamy no one will know it’s vegan! If someone ever asks me to dream up my ideal ice cream, I’ve got my answer. It’s this. Coconut matcha ice cream with…
Gluten-Free Tempura Asparagus with Matcha Salt
Ultra-crispy gluten-free tempura asparagus spears fried up with a rice flour and egg batter, then sprinkled with togarashi and earthy matcha salt to give these spears lots of sweet, savory, and salty matcha umami. While you will likely find tempura something on most Japanese restaurant menus in the States, our experience when visiting Japan was much different. In Japan,…
Coconut Matcha Rice Pudding with Date Adzuki Bean Paste {Vegan}
Earthy and sweet coconut matcha rice pudding – so creamy no one will believe it’s vegan! Topped with date-sweetened adzuki red bean paste for a savory-sweet dessert that’s vegetal and nutty with a hint of caramel. (It also makes a great naturally green St. Patrick’s Day treat!) They raised the downtown Berkeley metered parking rate to $3.50/hour…
Matcha Black Sesame Nougat Chews
I wish I could spend an entire day making batch after batch of these matcha black sesame nougat chews so I could send you each a bag of them. What I really wish is that you all had food printers and could just print out a batch of these nougat chews and then pretend I made them for…
Matcha Marshmallows with Fresh Mint Hot Cocoa
Just in time for the holidays, it’s finally getting cold enough over here that I’m shivering through each spoonful of ice cream as I’m bundled up under blankets (dessert dedication). Without central heat, it’s (debatably) too cold for ice cream right now though (Oh hi over there with your -18°F windchill, Midwest/East Coast friends!). In times…
Matcha Breakfast Brûlée + How to Choose Matcha
New life skill: doing all the things I used to do…while holding or wearing a 15lb baby. Like brewing a morning matcha latte with a babe on the hip and other very normal things like cutting strawberries (one-handed…machete style) and torching a matcha breakfast brûlée.
Coconut Matcha Horchata: Matchata
If you ever need a relaxing exercise to calm the nerves (like, say, after you finally get the baby down for a nap after 1.5 hours of blood curdling can-you-see-my-tonsils-yet screams), I recommend making a batch of matcha horchata. Or really: blanching almonds and sitting over a bowl popping them out of their skins one-by-one. There’s something seriously satisfying about the pop of an almond leaping out of its skin into a bowl. pop. pop. POP. Once you’ve gone that far, though, you might as well finish the job and turn them into creamy horchata.
Matcha Black Sesame Rice Krispie Treats with Chocolate Chunks
New reality with a baby: All cooking must take less than an hour start to finish or else you risk a baby waking up STARVING (OMG I’M SO HUNGRY MOM. RIGHT NOW.) just at the point where your dish needs the most attention. This makes matcha black sesame chocolate chunk rice krispie treats the perfect new-mom St. Patty’s day dessert. Forget about dieting to fit into your pre-baby pants, you’re still in survival mode.
And you know what tastes even better at 2am while soothing a fussy baby? Rice krispie treats.
Gluten-free Matcha Shortbread Cookies
I consumed 1/4 pound of matcha in less than 3 months. That’s about 450 of these gluten-free matcha shortbread cookies, 150 matcha cupcakes, or 30 matcha lattes. Well when you put it that way, that’s totally reasonable. My waistline disagrees. You might be thinking three matcha recipes in a row is a tad overkill, but it’s my birthday tomorrow and…
Gluten-free Matcha Cake with Black Sesame Streusel
When Lucas works from home, he makes his and hers kale smoothies every morning. On days he goes into the office, he’s usually in such a rush that breakfast is coffee to go. Unless there’s half a dozen matcha green tea muffins cupcakes sitting on the counter – then he grabs two. Full disclosure, this is absolutely cake and not…
White Chocolate Matcha Latte + Photo Books
We’ve been home from Kyoto for a year and a half, and I’m still courting matcha like we just began a serious love affair and I can’t take my hands off of it. When Alanna showed up with a bag of “extra” organic matcha in hand a few weeks ago I could have kissed her (who knew one…
Honey matcha green tea caramels
Everyone knows the best way to a person’s heart is through their stomach. Or at least that’s true for people built like me. Hand me a scoop of ice cream and you’ll make me the happiest girl in all the land. Bake me an awesome cookie and we’ll be best friends for life. Or in Lucas’s case, cook…
Honey green tea sandwich cookies
Phew! I churned out a 22-page paper yesterday, and I’m celebrating this small success with cookies. Yes folks, that means there’s a draft of my third qualifying paper on the table! Major edits will be in the works over the next couple weeks, but for now, I’ve composed some semblance of a theory on how…
Matcha green tea cupcakes with buttery honey buttercream
I baked these green cupcakes with St. Patrick’s Day in mind, but then immediately headed for the mountains to enjoy clouds of fresh powder on the slopes. Tahoe has finally gotten some much overdue snow cover, and I’ve consequently been MIA from chronicling my cooking while I hole up in a wintry cabin with good…
