As the end of the year approaches, many restaurants are starting to release new menus to welcome the joyful season, including drinks and bakery items. But if you still don’t know how to create a menu, MATCHAZUKI has collected ideas and recipes for green tea drinks and desserts for green tea lovers to try changing the menu at their restaurants to be more fun.
Let’s start with hot matcha latte, a recommended menu of many shops that adds color to the Christmas festival. It’s easy to do by adding cute snowman marshmallows to eat together. The method is not difficult because we start by making square marshmallows according to the marshmallow recipe of the favorite shop. Make it big enough to cut into small rounds. Use a toothpick with a sharp end to break off one end and dip the toothpick into the melted orange white chocolate and draw a nose on the marshmallow. For the eyes, put 2 tablespoons of dark chocolate chips and 1/4 teaspoon of coconut oil in a small dish and microwave for 20 seconds at a time, stirring a little at a time until the dark chocolate is completely melted and smooth. Use a toothpick with a sharp end to dip into the melted dark chocolate and dab it on the eyes and mouth of the snowman. Then let the snowman chocolate set at room temperature before serving with your favorite hot matcha latte.
Next up is the Matcha Cookie Christmas Tree. Start by beating 1 cup unsalted butter, 2 tablespoons matcha powder and 1 ½ cups sugar until fluffy. Add 1 egg yolk and 1 teaspoon vanilla and mix until combined. Sift flour, baking soda and salt together and set aside in another bowl. Add all ingredients to the bowl and mix until combined. Cover the dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
Cut dough in half or quarters and roll out to about 1/6 – 1/4 inch thick. Cut out Christmas tree molds and place on prepared baking sheet. Bake each batch for 7 – 9 minutes. Decorate with white chocolate, microwaved for 20 seconds, or mix in a little red chocolate for a different design.
The intensity of the Christmas tree color depends on the amount of matcha powder added. Add some cuteness by tying it with a bow or packing it in a clear plastic bag to show off the cookie pattern.
A technique to make Christmas cookies more cute is when pressing the dough into the shape of a Christmas tree. You can press it into the shape of stars of various sizes so that after baking, you can arrange them in alternating layers, with each layer connected with a little white chocolate. Stick the star on top with almonds and sprinkle a little icing. You’ve got a green tea cookie menu for this Christmas season.
Another menu that just seeing it makes us think of a Christmas tree is Matcha Mont Blanc. You can use the regular Mont Blanc recipe, but change the chestnut cream squeezed on top to matcha cream. Then decorate with colorful icing cookies. It becomes a matcha Mont Blanc that will impress anyone who eats it.
In addition to the tea menu above, which is an example for your tea shop to see the initial idea for modifying the menu, there are many other green tea menus that can be sold during Christmas, such as Matcha Hot Chocolate or Matcha Macaron or Matcha Cake that emphasizes adding red color with strawberries.
But if you are not good at making desserts that require a lot of techniques, try taking the no-bake green tea dessert menu (see more at shorturl.at/dpDS7) and adjusting it to be Christmas style. It is another interesting idea. Especially if there are new menus and organizing a year-end campaign with interesting promotions or activities, it will help stimulate customers to want to come to the shop even more (see more at shorturl.at/ceqKP). Because it is not necessary that every shop will have new menus during this festival. It may be difficult for some shops to think up new menus all the time. Because according to the Japanese belief, just buying green tea to give to each other during various festivals is considered a blessing for good health (see more at shorturl.at/bcCHK).
Source
https://encha.com/pages/matcha-recipes
https://www.stephaniesuen.com/2018/12/08/mini-matcha-christmas-tree-sugar-cookies/
https://steemit.com/food/@alwayssmile/elegant-noble-french-dessert-mont-blanc
https://hostthetoast.com/matcha-cookie-christmas-tree-stacks/
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