Recipes with tea
In German there’s a proverb saying „abwarten und Tee trinken“ (literally „wait and have a cup of tea“), which means one should take it easy and just wait and see. What better way to do that than with a delicious sweet treat and a real cup of tea? The green tea-muffin with chokeberry jam definetely sweetens the waiting time. It combines the best of two worlds of pleasure, when smooth and sweet flavours of Matcha tea join finest chokeberry jam. An unforgettable delight, making the hearts of tea-lovers beat faster!
The muffin for tea-lovers
In German there’s a proverb saying „abwarten und Tee trinken“ (literally „wait and have a cup of tea“), which means one should take it easy and just wait and see. What better way to do that than with a delicious sweet treat and a real cup of tea? The green tea-muffin with chokeberry jam definetely sweetens the waiting time. It combines the best of two worlds of pleasure, when smooth and sweet flavours of Matcha tea join finest chokeberry jam. An unforgettable delight, making the hearts of tea-lovers beat faster!
Preparation time: 20 min
baking time: 25 min
difficulty level: easy
Ingredients:
- Butter and flour, for baking pan
- 150 g butter
- 100 g brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 150 g flour
- 50 ground almonds
- 1/2 tspbaking powder
- 20 g Matcha
- 2 – 3 tbsp cream
- 12 tbsp chockberry jam
Preparation:
- Pre-heat the oven up to 180 °C (circulating air). Grease a standard 12-cup muffin tin (or line with paper liners).
- Whisk the butter and sugar until well-combined and light-colored. Add the eggs one at a time.
- Mix flour, almonds, baking powder and Matcha. Put everything in the butter mixture and stir. You can add a little bit of cream if you want to. Then put half of the dough in the muffin tin.
- In the middle of each muffin put a tea spoon of chokeberry jam and cover with the rest of the dough.
- Bake for approx. 25 minutes until golden brown. Put the muffin tin out of the oven, leave to cool and enjoy.