Matcha White Hot Chocolate

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Ryan and I used to go to a crepe restaurant in Toronto called Chococrepe. Obviously they served crepes (both sweet and savoury, and all delicious), but they also served amazing hot chocolate. You could get either dark, milk, or white hot chocolate made with either cream or milk (or 50-50), and you could get it plain, with spices, with mint, or with matcha. My favourite, as you could probably guess from the title of this post, was the Matcha White Hot Chocolate. The white chocolate was sweet but did not overpower the slightly vegetal and bitter taste of the matcha. I think the milk or dark chocolate wouldn’t make such a great pairing with the matcha, and would just overpower it. Another benefit of choosing the white chocolate drink was that the matcha gave it a lovely pale green colour.

The last time Ryan and I visited Chococrepe, they were completely out of the Matcha White Hot Chocolate! I sulked during our meal. And Chococrepe recently closed and was replaced with some sort of lounge, so now I must make my own Matcha White Hot Chocolate!

Matcha White Hot Chocolate

 

Author:

Kiku Corner

Recipe type: Drinks

Serves: 1 cup

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 5 mins

Total time: 10 mins

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Ingredients

• 1 cup half-and-half (10% cream), or ½ cup heavy cream and ½ cup milk
• 4 oz white chocolate, finely chopped or grated
• 1 Tbsp matcha

Instructions

1. In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, warm the half-and-half, stirring often to prevent it from burning, until it is very hot.
2. Remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle in the matcha and then the white chocolate.
3. Allow white chocolate to melt, about 1 minute.
4. Mix until thoroughly combined with an immersion blender - it should be frothy.
5. Pour into serving cups and serve immediately!
6. VARIATION: Substitute whole milk for the half-and-half.

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