Green tea ice cream is pretty easy to find these days, having become a hit internationally. Matcha latte, though, often takes a bit more legwork, and sometimes even requires a trip to a cafe, since it’s not as ubiquitous as regular green tea in supermarkets and convenience stores. So while we pretty regularly have green tea ice cream in our freezer, we’re much less likely to have matcha latte in our fridge.
Recently, though, we came across an intriguing idea to convert green tea ice cream into a matcha latte, and we were eager to test out this matcha alchemy for ourselves. The method comes from the official Twitter account of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives Group’s National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, aka Zen-Noh. According to Zen-Noh, all you need to do to turn matcha ice cream into matcha latte is combine the ice cream with milk in a cup, heat it up to room temperature so they can mix together, and then add some ice to chill it back down.
Actually, you could probably skip that last step if you’re in the mood for a hot matcha latte, but here in mid-August, cold matcha latte is definitely the more appealing option to us right now. Zen-Noh’s tweet shows them using Häagen-Dazs green tea ice cream, but in the interest of thoroughly testing this idea, and also to have an excuse to treat ourselves to even more ice cream, we also picked up a cup of confectioner Meiji’s Essel Super Cup matcha ice cream..
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.and a cup of Uji matcha ice crea.
