In Japan, matcha is used to flavour so many foods, from soft-serve ice cream, Kit Kat bars, and Pocky to Swiss roll cakes and mochi. However, I’ve never had a matcha-flavoured blondie until Ryan whipped some up! Ryan’s baking specialty is blondies, and recently he surprised us with one of our favourite flavours – matcha. Matcha is […]
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Matcha Cupcakes with Matcha Frosting
Now that it is dark and cold, I feel like baking all the time. Bread, muffins, cookies, cakes…and cupcakes. Matcha is a fine grade of powdered green tea, and here Ryan and I incorporated a few tablespoons of precious matcha into rich cupcakes. To increase the matcha intensity, we also added a tablespoon of matcha to […]
Matcha Swiss Roll Birthday Cake
I have been baking my own birthday cakes since I was about 13 years old, and in the past several years I have insisted on making birthday cakes for my family too. This year I made Tomiko a White Chocolate Raspberry Layer Cake and I made our brother Karlos a Chocolate Turtle Layer Cake, and I […]
Matcha White Hot Chocolate
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, […]