Matcha Cupcakes with Matcha Frosting

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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 the frosting.

When we went up to the Koreatown in North York for dinner at Han Ba Tang, Ryan found a nicely-priced tin of matcha. I used it first for matcha white hot chocolate and then in a matcha Swiss roll cake. We can’t get enough of delicious matcha!

Matcha Cupcakes with Matcha Frosting

 

Author:

Kiku Corner

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: Japanese

Serves: 24 cupcakes

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 50 mins

Total time: 1 hour 5 mins

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Ingredients

For the Cupcakes:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 2 Tbsp matcha

For the Frosting:

• ½ cup butter, room temperature
• 2 Tbsp whole milk or cream
• 1 Tbsp matcha
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups powdered sugar, sifted

Instructions

For the Cupcakes:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Cream butter at medium speed until soft, about 30 seconds.
3. Add sugar. Beat on medium-high until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
4. Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time, beating well between addition. Beat in vanilla.
5. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
6. Mix matcha in with the milk.
7. Add a third of the flour mixture to the batter. Mix well. Follow by a third of the matcha milk mixture. Mix well. Continue alternating dry and wet ingredients until everything is well incorporated.
8. Scoop batter into prepared into cupcake papers.
9. Bake for 22-25 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean. Let cool.

For the Frosting:

1. Mix matcha in with the milk to make a paste.
2. Beat butter briefly.
3. Add the sifted powdered sugar and matcha paste. Beat until smooth.

To Assemble:

1. Pipe or spread about ¼ cup of the matcha frosting onto each cupcake. Serve!

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