#matcha syrup

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 747

By the time I post this, the drink contest will have been over and done.

For those who aren’t aware, Santae, as part of their community building, holds contests where you bring a certain category of items to real life. The newsletter actually ended up in my junk folder, and for a moment I thought I had missed it, but apparently the deadline was extended.

Which was great, because the idea of making a drink based off of an item in the game sounded like fun, and that was something I could do. You know… if I wasn’t such a nutjob and decided to pick one of the hardest items in the game. 

The item is simply labelled Java, and it’s a layered drink of what looks like matcha at the bottom, milk in the middle and at the top chocolate (though, considering the name, most likely a coffee concentrate). However, I don’t like coffee, but I think chocolate and matcha work very well and I had both.

I just needed lactose free milk, because getting sick off of my own experiments (on top of fucking with my gulcose levels) is not fun. I figured if I got milk that was half and half, rather than skim, the higher fat content might help with the layering.

It did not, well with the hot chocolate it did, but it also was a mess. It was also supersweet (probably because all I had was flavoured matcha which was also sweet). After a bit of searching, I came across the answer to what I was looking for.

I forgot that milk tea drinks from the fancy tea shops tended to be layered, and the reason why is because their milk was either condensed milk or milk that had sugar added to it, because sugar will help thicken the liquid making it denser. However it didn’t answer my issue of how to make three layers, and more importantly, how do I have the matcha at the bottom?

Most milk tea drinks are designed to have the milk at the bottom and the tea at the top, again, because the milk has sugar in it.

Well… I really didn’t want to do that (I also wanted to save myself another sugar spike). So I thought, well, I like tea, tea is brewed with water and leaves, maybe that more than the hot chocolate would be less dense than the half and half milk. 

This didn’t solve my matcha problem though, that one required me to give in about the sugar and steal half a cup of sugar from my mother’s baking stash. To make matcha simple syrup with the rest of the matcha I had laying around my home. An act of cooking that was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Simple syrup turns out to be a simple 1:1 ratio of sugar and water, add your preferred flavour as needed (in this case matcha). Simmer for 5 minutes and you have matcha syrup. 

Which by the way, makes a decent container size for using only half a cup of water and half a cup of sugar.

To offset the sugar, I over steeped green tea leaves I had. Unfortunately, what I probably had to do was also make a tea concentrate so the colour would be dark enough that it wouldn’t get lost in the milk because it did kind of float on top, it was just still too light even after over-steeping. 

So I decided to go back through my inventory and find a drink that used matcha a lot more and came across the Ogreling Matcha drink. Not quite what I ended up with, I do again suspect that adding sugar to my milk would have solved a good amount of my issues, but it was already enough sugar.

That was the entry I submitted along with the ingredients, because nothing is more fun than a drink based off of a game that you can actually drink.

Fun fact, what I pretty much made was matcha milk tea, which was great. I still have some syrup left in the fridge and at some point in next week I'll need to buy more milk to finish it off because simple syrup only has a shelf life of a month.

[heartnosekid]

matcha warabimochi | source

[everythingwithwasabi]

Cold Matcha Slice

[morethansalad]

Creamy Vegan Coconut Matcha Ice Cream with Black Sesame Brittle Chips

[acocktailmoment]

Matcha Latte !

Ingredients:

1/2 - 1 teaspoon of matcha  1/4 cup of warm water (not boiling) 1/4 cup of warm milk or almond milk Agave syrup, honey or stevia Preparation:

1. Put the matcha in an empty glass and pour the water. Mix with a chasen or a hand mixer for about 30 seconds. 2. Add honey or agave syrup and mash everything slowly. 3. Heat the milk for a while and make foam using the hand mixer or a device for frothing milk. Now pour the milk foam into the matcha you have already prepared. 4. Taste hot or cold by adding ice.

Courtesy of TeaRoute

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[daily-deliciousness]

[dughole]

girl who is "going to be okay"

[charmwasjess]

Typing the words "the thing about the Acolyte being canceled..." into my drafts and then closing the window so hard it slams on my fingers, crushing them, finally ending my wretched takes

[primdaisy]

[cr-another-kingdom]

oc textposts — featuring matcha cookie , chili pepper cookie , shadow milk cookie , and pomegranate cookie

[chocochat]

perfected my matcha drink order

[werewolfbarista]

what's the weirdest order anyone has asked for? mine was iced almondmilk matcha latte with decaf espresso and raspberry syrup. i made it for myself after and turns out all the flavors cancel out. (though shoutout to 'cappuccino no foam' i love that one)

i didn't make this one but one time somebody ordered an earl grey with matcha and a shot in it........???????? strange combination .

alternatively this thing, which my coworker said ultimately had like maybe a quarter inch of iced coffee in it. i saw her making it and lost my mind

TR ICED COFFEE

pumpkin cream cold foam

12 pumps liquid cane

4 pumps classic

12 pumps pumpkin sauce

12 pumps white mocha

add whip

caramel drizzle

mocha drizzle

apple drizzle

cookie crumbles

pumpkin topping

cinnamon dolce topping

caramel crunch topping

why both liquid cane AND classic? why whip AND cold foam? why 40 pumps of syrup total? why not just get a solo espresso at this point? why everything?????

[quibbs126]

This is random, but now I really just want to see a bunch of the Cookies just in bath outfits just enjoying the bathhouse. Like a large art piece with the different baths and Cookies in each of them just chilling

Doesn’t have to be strictly the bath house outfits, they can also be different outfits like what Tangerine Tanghulu has

[everythingwithwasabi]

Pistachio Avocado Mousse 

[morethansalad]

Pistachio Overnight Oats with a White Chocolate Shell (Vegan)

Ingredients [serves 2] 100g oats 2 tbsp chia seeds 2 tbsp maple (depending on sweetness) 4 tsp pistachio butter (to make this, blend pistachios until a nut butter forms) 250ml almond milk 1/2 tsp matcha 50g white chocolate 2 tbsp chopped pistachios

Method In 2 cups/ glasses, mix the oats, chia seeds, maple syrup, 2 tsp pistachio butter, milk and matcha until combined. Add the remaining 2 tsp pistachio butter to the middle of the oats at the top. Add melted white chocolate to each glass, making a chocolate shell and then finish with the chopped pistachios. Leave to chill for at least 3 hours, or overnight. Enjoy!

[allright]

nanami ... making me ... a morning matcha ... Oh............