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Matcha Tea Cupcakes – Green, Healthy and Tasty Recipe
These are a really delicious combination of matcha and cocoa, with the cupcake tasting just of chocolate cake and the...
Ingredients
| 1 tsp | (rounded)organic matcha tea |
| 120ml | / ½ cup milk |
| 100g / ¾ cup plus 1 tbsporganic | plain flour |
| 1¼ tspbaking | powder |
| 2 tbspFairtrade | cocoa powder |
| Pinch | ofsea salt |
| 150g | / 1 scant cupFairtrade caster sugar |
| 1 | large free range egg |
| 1 tspSteenbergs | organic Fairtrade vanilla extract |
| 50g / 3½ tsp | unsalted butter |
For the topping:
| 80g / 5 tbsp | unsalted butter |
| 2 tsp | (level)organic matcha tea, sieved |
| 2 tbsp | fromage frais |
| 250g | / 2 cupsorganic icing sugar |
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F.
- Pour the milk into a milk pan, then sieve the matcha tea into the milk. Whisk the mixture with a matcha whisk or a fork. Then carefully heat the milk until hot to touch but not starting to simmer. Take off the heat and set aside.
- Infuse Milk With Green Matcha Tea
- Sieve the plain flour, baking powder and cocoa powder into a mixing bowl. Add the sea salt and then tip in the caster sugar. Mix the dry ingredients together.
- Put All The Dry Ingredients Into Mixing Bowl
- Put the egg and vanilla extract into the dry ingredients and mix up a bit with a fork. Chop the unsalted butter into small cubes and add to the mixture. Mix thoroughly with an electric whisk or in a blender. When creamed together, add the matcha milk mix and throughly mix.
- Mix In The Matcha Milk
- Spoon the mixture into paper cupcakes until about three-quarters up.
- Pour In Mixture Three Quarters Up Cupcake
- Place in oven and cook for about 25 minutes, or until spongy to the touch. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.
- To make the matcha icing, simply mix all the ingredients together and put a dessertspoon of the matcha frosting onto each cupcake.
- Mix Together The Ingredients For Matcha Frosting
- Enjoy the taste straight away.
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