Desserts

Enjoy these easy Dessert recipes using Matcha Green Tea Powder

 MATCHA CHEESE TARTS

Matcha Cheese Tarts

Created by @little.grateful.hearts , these look just delightful! 
Recipe: (Makes 12)
Dough:
• 110 gram unsalted butter (room temperature)
• 30g white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 190g cake flour

Filling:
• 125g cream cheese
• 10ml milk
• 50ml heavy cream
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 20g white sugar
• 2g corn starch
• 1 tsp matcha powder
Extra matcha powder for dusting

To make dough:
1. Mix butter with sugar. Use a mixer and mix until it becomes smooth consistency.
2. Mix egg until incorporated. Add to (1) and mix until smooth.
3. Sift flour into mixture and mix roughly.
4. Use your hand, knead until all mixture incorporate and form into a dough ball.
5. Cover dough ball in wrap and put in the fridge for 1 hour to rest.
6. After 1 hour, take dough out and separate into 12 equal balls (roughly 30g each ball)
7. Place a ball of dough into tart tin, slowly push the dough outward to cover tart tin.
8. Remove any excesses dough. Make sure the dough is not too thin otherwise it will crack once baked.
9. Preheat oven to 200C. Please moulded tart pastry into oven for 10 minutes.
10. Remove from oven & let it rest to cool. Move tart from tart tins.

To make fillings: 
1. Use a spatula, mix cream cheese until soft and smooth consistency.
2. Add sugar, milk and cream, use a spatula and mix until incorporate.
3. Soft corn starch and squeeze lemon juice into the mixture.
4. Fold gently until incoporate.
Transfer filling into a pipping bag. If mixture is too runny, you may want to sit it in the fridge for 30 minutes to harden it a little. Otherwise you can pipe the filling onto the cooled pastry tarts.
5. Place the cheese tarts in the freezer for 2 hours.
6. Preheat oven to 230C.
7. Bake in the prepared oven for 8-10 minutes or until the top turns golden brown. Remove from oven and sit to cool.
9. Dust extra matcha powder & Serve warm.
Wholesome Foodie Chocolate Chip Matcha Waffles

CHOCOLATE CHIP MATCHA WAFFLES

VEGAN & GLUTEN FREE

Matcha and Chocolate surprisingly go so well together!

Team them with buckwheat flour waffles and generous drizzles of maple syrup and voila, a decadent breakfast treat awaits! 

Tanita Weeks of Wholesome Foodie created this super easy creation and now you can too!

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups of Buckwheat Flour
3 tsp our Culinary Matcha Powder 
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
3 Tbsp Coconut Sugar
1/4 Cup Vegan Chocolate Chips
1 1/4 cup Soy Milk (or any other non-dairy milk)
2 Tbsp Coconut Oil
1 Tbsp Maple Syrup
Strawberries 
Directions:
Pre heat waffle iron
Mix all ingredients together (except maple syrup and the strawberries) until they are well combined with no lumps
Once waffle iron is heated up, cook for approx 5-7 mins
Pop a few strawberries on top and drizzle with maple syrup
(Shared with permission of Tanita of Wholesome Foodie)

 

 

Chocolate Matcha Truffles

CHOCOLATE MATCHA TRUFFLES

VEGAN & GLUTEN FREE

How marvellous are these little morsels of Matcha joy?

They look like naughty treat but guess what, they are actually quite healthy for you! 

Besides Matcha, there is another green friend hiding in there...none other than avocado! I love Avocado so this makes us very excited! 

Check out the recipe here from Cheryl Lang of

Lean Green Nutrition Fiend

Matcha + Avocado  - what a winning combination! 

(Shared with permission of Lean Green Nutrition Fiend) 

Minimalist Baker Green Tea Ice Cream

GREEN TEA COCONUT ICE CREAM

VEGAN & GLUTEN FREE

This is legit one of the best Dairy Free Matcha Ice Creams I'd had. 

So creamy, so dreamy, so easy!

I piled it into a Matcha flavoured waffle cone then died and then went to

Matcha sweet heaven!  True story! 

Check out the recipe here from one of my favourite food bloggers

 

For even more recipe inspiration, check out our Dessert Board on Pinterest here