So today was my friend's 21st (insert obligatory shout-out) and shame upon shame, we forgot about the cake! Now this was remembered at 8.30pm the night before with university classes looming at 8am the next day. What's a sloth to do? Easy, make a matchamisu. Simple, quick, and I had the majority of ingredients sitting somewhere in my kitchen.
You may be asking yourself, what exactly is a matchamisu? And to be honest, it's just a tiramisu substituted with green tea. I'm not talking tea leaves, I'm talking about matcha; that holy green powder above all else. Brilliant bright green with a pleasant, although somewhat bitter aftertaste, it's becoming more and more common to find desserts that use matcha.
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See this? This is truly the drink of gods. |
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| Bright green matchamisu; poor quality photo can be blamed on my potato of a phone camera. |
Unfortunately I don't have any in-progress shots thanks to poor forward planning but this is pretty straight forward.This recipe differs slightly from the more traditional tiramisu in that there are no eggs involved, mostly because I didn't trust the refrigerative abilities of my cooler bag that I picked up earlier this year at the Good Food and Wine Festival; but even without the eggs, it was creamy and decadent and left people smiling and satisfied.
It also gives you the flexibility of changing how it tastes; too sweet, decrease the sugar; too bitter, increase the sugar; not green enough, add more matcha. You can also mix it up with the chocolate, I chose white chocolate for it's mild taste, but I can definitely see this working with dark chocolate. Ideally you want a balance of 'I can taste the green tea but it's not bitter at all' but hey, everyone's tastes are different and if you like bitter green tea, then who am I to judge?
