Crunchy dark chocolate cookies with a layer of matcha icing and a light sprinkle of black lava salt. Not overly sweet, these flavors make a lovely pairing! Flashback… I was maybe about 12 years old… I had decided to make a chocolate Valentine’s Day cake. With the recipe before me, I began to gather the…
Matcha Green Tea
Matcha Strawberry Layered Smoothie
Matcha and strawberries come together in this layered vegan smoothie – and there’s a bonus healthy ingredient in the matcha layer! Let’s see a show of hands – how many of you reading this are vegan? Awesome… now, how many of you vegans actually don’t like bananas? Hm… okay… it seems most of you do…
Matcha Tiramisu
A unique twist to the traditional tiramisu, this matcha tiramisu is layered with matcha mascarpone cream and matcha-soaked sponge fingers. No raw eggs! If you haven’t ever tried matcha before, I’m really not sure where you’ve been for your entire life! Matcha is one of my favorite ingredients to cook and bake with, as well…
Chocolate Cupcakes with Matcha Cream Cheese Frosting
Chocolate and matcha are a match made in heaven and these chocolate cupcakes with matcha cream cheese frosting do not disappoint! I’m really tired today. For some reason, last night, I kept having weird, yet realistic, dreams, that I would wake up from thinking I was still in the dream until I opened my eyes…
Matcha Milkshake
A quick and easy recipe for a cooling and refreshing matcha milkshake, perfect for a hot day! Healthy, and can be made vegan! Could Sydney BE any hotter right now?? Well, yes, it technically could be, but at the moment, wow. When I step outside, it’s like stepping into my oven. And that’s a big…
Vanilla Matcha Latte Popsicles
Wow, Sydney! How warm has it been this winter! While I’m usually quite fond of the cooler weather that our winter brings, I’ve found that these unseasonably warmer temperatures are the perfect excuse to make popsicles. I recently discovered Zip Pops, which provide a healthy alternative to those unnaturally colored icy poles available at the…
Delicious Matcha Recipes
In case you hadn’t noticed, I kind of have a thing for matcha. If you don’t know what matcha is, I can sum it up by saying that it is simply finely ground green tea. It’s super healthy too, containing 137 times the antioxidants found in regular tea, plus 10 times the nutrients. It’s an…
Matcha Latte Strawberry Popsicles
Summer is in full swing in my home state of Indiana this week – in fact, the high there today is supposed to be 102! Here I am in Sydney complaining that it’s too cold, but my family in Indiana is complaining that it’s too hot! Well, my fellow Hoosiers, this recipe will cool you…
Matcha White Chocolate Macarons
My recent macaron challenge with Samantha of Sweet Remedy has sent me on a macaron whirlwind, and like so many other food bloggers, I have officially caught the macaron bug. I’m so glad I decided to finally make macarons, after months and months of being too intimidated by this tiny French treat to barely even…
Matcha; Not Only For Lattes
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll know that I’m really keen on matcha. My love for green tea started in 1999 when I visited Australia to see my then-boyfriend (now husband!). He took me to a lovely Japanese restaurant where he convinced me to try a bowl of green tea ice…
