Chocolate Matcha Muffins
if the instructions don’t make sense, holler at me: I have a cold and my head mistakenly won several awards for largest pumpkin EVER.
try the simple chocolate version here
makes 6 big muffins
1 cup whole wheat flour [not pastry]
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 t sea salt
1 cup powdered sugar
2 T unsweetened cocoa powder
2 t matcha powder
1 t baking soda
5 T applesauce
1 t apple cider vinegar
1 scant t pure vanilla extract
1 scant t pure almond extract
1/2 cup chocolate soy milk
1/2 cup plain or vanilla soy milk
1/3 cup dairy free chocolate chips
preheat oven to 350F, prepare a jumbo muffin pan with non stick cooking spray.
in a large bowl, sift together: flours, salt, sugar, and baking soda.
place half of flour mixture in another large bowl.
in one of the bowl, add cocoa powder and chocolate chips. in a small bowl, stir together 2 1/2 T apple sauce, 1/2 t vinegar, vanilla extract, and chocolate soy milk.
in the remaining large bowl filled with 1/2 flour mixture, add matcha powder.
in another small bowl, stir together 2 1/2 T apple sauce, 1/2 t vinegar, almond extract, and plain or vanilla soy milk.
combine cocoa-ed flour with chocolate soy milk mixture.
combine matcha-ed flour with plain soy milk mixture.
stir well but don’t overmix.
with a couple of 1/3 measuring cups, pour cocoa and matcha batters simultaneously in prepared muffin tin, keeping them separated. proceed with all 6 tins. be sure to keep the batter levels equal for the muffins to bake evenly.
gently stir with a toothpick in order to create a swirly look.
bake for 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. let cool in the pan on a cooling rack for about 15 minutes before attempting to remove.
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kinoko said,
October 21, 2007 at 7:03 am
Thank you so much for the recipe, I’ve been trying to think of something to do with my matcha powder….. Yours look so delicious!
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October 21, 2007 at 8:32 am
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Ash said,
October 21, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Oh no! You’re sick too? The past few days I’ve been incapicitated with a sinus infection, nothing’s been making much sense to me either!
Get well soon!
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Sarena said,
October 21, 2007 at 11:26 pm
You know how much I love the plain chocolate version of this. I have to get some matcha powder and give this one a try! Can you get that at Trader Joe’s?
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a-k said,
October 21, 2007 at 11:46 pm
that muffin looks amazing, like a piece of art! i should bake some for my hunny. gorgeous food, as always ;)
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Celine said,
October 22, 2007 at 7:47 am
oh no Ash! you feeling ill again? get better soon, you poor thing!
Sarena: sadly no, you can’t find Matcha at TJ’s, at least not at the one I go to. I ordered mine from Amazon but like I mentioned in another comment, cannot recommend ordering the brand in question as the packaging leaves a lot to desire.
if you have a Whole Foods or Wild Oats nearby, I *think* you might be able to find some there.
thank you A-K!
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Alisa said,
October 22, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Wow, they even look super low-fat. I am not a big chocolate muffin pereson, I wonder how they would be as just vanilla-matcha muffins?
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Jennifer said,
October 23, 2007 at 5:18 pm
What is matcha powder?
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Glenda said,
December 18, 2007 at 6:16 am
I got my Match powder from Mercola.com. Good stuff!
Jennifer, you can go to that site and type in the word matcha to read about it.
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YC said,
March 22, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I’m so happy the recipe came out nicely and they are delicious! I added a little bit more matcha powder since I love the taste of it… added some dark chocolate chunk pieces to the cocoa half + almond slices to the matcha half.
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diva said,
August 18, 2009 at 9:15 pm
oh this looks gorgeous and i really wanna make this now but i’m missing so many ingredients. what a shame!! :)
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