This week, I'm taking the traditional chocolate cupcake to *ahem* greener pastures over on BAKED the Blog. Not that there is anything wrong with a good, old fashioned chocolate cupcake, however, there's something to be said for combining chocolate and matcha green tea. If you caught my baking with Matcha tutorial on BAKED earlier this week, you're hopefully feeling inspired to give it a ...
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TRADITIONAL MATCHA TEA PREPARATION
I thought I would do a post to highlight one of my most favourite things, Matcha green tea. If you know me, you know my love of tea and good tea is like fine wine; there is an art to preparing and tasting it well. The art of preparing this tea is a wonderful experience to savor each day. I shared a video tutorial on YouTube demonstrating the art of making Matcha tea the traditional Japanese ...
MATCHA TEA CUPCAKES
Matcha tea cupcakes bring a new meaning to the term "tea cake". If you are a tea aficionado, or not, you'll enjoy these cupcakes. Matcha tea is a beautiful green tea powder from Japan. It's slightly bitter taste is recognizable in these cupcakes, however, with the added sweetness of sugar and vanilla, the tea flavour is enhanced and quite pleasing. If you enjoy green tea, green tea ice cream or ...