A delicious, grown-up winter treat, this Matcha White Hot Chocolate is an easy, cozy drink for cold days. 4 ingredients and full of healthy antioxidants!
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Hot chocolate always has to come with warm fuzzy memories, doesn’t it? I vividly remember being about 9 – otherwise known as the age when snow was fun. My sister and I would spend hours and hours building forts and making snow angels. We’d come in the house with red noses and leave our snowpants in a puddle at the door (you know, for mom to clean up). We’d sit down to mugs of Swiss Miss hot chocolate, no marshmallows for me.
I might not have wintery white Christmases anymore, but here’s my fancy adult white hot chocolate that’s made oh so much more delicious by adding one of my favorite ingredients – matcha.
If you’re new to matcha, check out this matcha coconut latte post where I describe it a little more… or view all of our matcha recipes in our (now working again, sorry for yesterday’s glitch) recipe index.
Matcha White Hot Chocolate
- ¼ cup white chocolate chips
- 2 cups unsweetened almond milk
- 2 teaspoons AIYA cooking grade matcha
- 1 cup hot water
- Melt the white chocolate together with ½ cup of almond milk. Stir until smooth, then add the remaining almond milk. Set aside.
- Sift matcha into 1 cup hot water and whisk until combined and frothy. Stir this into the almond milk/white chocolate mixture and pour into 2 mugs.
Better to place the finished product in a blender, it doesn’t mix well, then microwave it. This recipe missed the mark. There is a restaurant in NYC called Max Brenner that makes the best white chocolate matcha tea–hot and steaming.
So simple and lovely
This would be great to make for special occasions such as st. patricks day! Cant wait to take a sip!!
Aiya is too expensive for me would it work with other brands? My hubby bought a brand called enzo from amazon last week and I’ve tried it with this recipe, it was great but I still want to check.
This looks delicious! Do you think the Matcha hot chocolate would work with dark chocolate instead of white?
Ugh, two of my favorite things combined. I need to try this!!
https://bythesparklingsea.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/matcha-white-chocolate-chip-cookies/
wow! I have been on a tea kick since the new year and now I must get to the store for matcha to make this! thank you for sharing!!
I tried your Matcha Coconut Latte and didn’t really like it. But I decided I might as well make this as I happened to have everything. It’s good! Thanks for the recipe!
ha, thanks 🙂
What a beautiful picture of a curious and utterly tempting recipe x
It’s official: matcha is the new kale. A matcha beverage shop just opened in Brooklyn, Bon Appetit featured matcha cookies in their Christmas cookie lineup, and now this thing of beauty. I think I’m gonna like this trend!
Ha – love it! (although I do have a smoothie recipe that uses matcha and kale 🙂 http://www.loveandlemons.com/2014/07/17/matcha-kale-peach-smoothies/
Oh… touche 😉
You have the best matcha recipes – a girl after my own heart. I just want to come to your house for a day of matcha recipe tasting. Starting with this matcha hot chocolate.
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I came across this on Pinterest and absolutely had to run downstairs to make it. Delicious! I like sweeter drinks, so I might use a little less matcha and sweeten it the next go ’round. Thanks 🙂
So glad you liked it! Let me know your ratio w/ more sweetener (I’m a little matcha crazy and I prefer less-sweet things but I’d love to put your perfect proportion in the notes!)
Wow, beautiful pictures and an even better recipe. Sounds incredibly delicious, need to stock on matcha asap!
I drink cold matcha tea everyday, and use it in a number of ways, iincluding a matcha yogurt breakfast bowl. But I have not seen it in this incarnation – so creative. I’m not a real fan of white chocolate, but as I have sneaky liking for matcha-flavoured KitKats (which have white rather than dark chocolate) I am sure I will like this too. Pinning Stumbling etc
Matcha kitkats are so good! I was actually hoping this hot chocolate would taste like them as well. I’ll definitely have to try it.
Gosh, this is amazing!
O M G! This sounds like the best discovery since ever. Must be delicious!
This looks incredible! I can’t wait to try it out. Do you know of any vegan white chocolate chips?
Of course, I’m also into deep, dark, chocolatey treats, too: http://theinclusivevegan.com/2014/12/09/truffle-brownies/
I’m not sure, all the brands I’ve seen are packed with chemicals which is why I went with Sunspire ones (even though they’re not vegan). You should try out the coconut milk latte – it’s rich and creamy and vegan.
Mmmm, love matcha and your recipe sounds great, can’t wait to try it! Thanks!
This is the prettiest hot chocolate I ever did see! I haven’t tried a white chocolate version before, and the addition of matcha is so fun. Love!!
Matcha and white chocolate … a delicious drink! I love it!