When it comes to satisfying a sweet tooth craving, reinventing classic baking recipes with subtle twists is often a good approach. Though we've learned from experience, experimenting while baking can either lead to a disastrous outcome or a delicious stroke of genius. Fortunately, when it comes to chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting, incorporating matcha is a guaranteed way to achieve an exceptional result.
We’ve made the quintessential chocolate cupcake that will far surpass your tastebud's expectations by topping it off with some matcha buttercream. So keep on reading to learn how to easily make these moist and delicious chocolate cupcakes with matcha frosting at home!
Recipe
Chocolate Cupcake With Matcha Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Prep
30 min
Cook / chill
20 min
Ready in
50 min
Makes
12 cupcakes
You'll need
Mixing bowls, sifter, lined cupcake tray, electric mixer, rubber spatula, piping bag
Ingredients
Method
01
Mix the dry ingredients. Sift and combine all of the dry cupcake ingredients in one bowl.
02
Mix the wet ingredients. In a separate bowl, add the egg, oil, milk, and vanilla. Mix until well combined.
03
Make the batter. Add the dry ingredients and mix them together. Pour in the hot water and mix until the batter is smooth.
04
Bake. Pour into a lined cupcake tray and bake for 18–20 minutes at 350°F.
05
Cream the butter. For the frosting, cream the butter for 3 minutes on low speed. Add the vanilla, then beat on low speed for another minute.
06
Fold in the sugar. Add the sifted powdered sugar and fold with a rubber spatula until halfway combined.
07
Add the matcha. Sift in the matcha powder and fold until the mixture is smooth and well combined.
08
Pipe and decorate. Transfer the buttercream to a piping bag. Pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes and decorate with white chocolate chips and melted dark chocolate for the eyes.
The ultimate matcha chocolate combination
It’s a well-known fact in the matchaverse that matcha green tea can elevate almost any flavor or ingredient, but a fan favorite would have to be pairing matcha with chocolate. These two flavors undoubtedly just go so well together — and adding buttercream to the mix just brings your tastebuds to a whole new level of satisfying deliciousness.
On top of its amazing nutritional value, its strong and rich, earthy umami flavor makes for a dynamic ingredient that is so easy to consume and use in a variety of recipes.
Easy matcha frosting pairs with an easy chocolate cupcake
Our matcha buttercream is a recipe that you can pair or add to so many other classic recipes. In this case, we’re pairing it with a simple and moist chocolate cupcake recipe.
As opposed to all our other matcha chocolate recipes, this one differs in the way that the two flavors (matcha and chocolate) are created individually instead of infused or blended together in the mixture. So when you take a bite out of the matcha chocolate cupcake, the flavors are distinct yet harmonious.
Now, let’s get to baking so you can get to eating!
In all of our matcha recipes, we always recommend using high-quality Japanese matcha green tea. This way, you get the full flavor and depth of the matcha green tea powder.
Additionally, when it comes to matcha baking recipes, we can be more specific in saying that we prefer using culinary-grade matcha powder so the matcha flavor will be more apparent and bold. It’s a better option over other grades of matcha in order to get the brightness of the green and the full flavor of the matcha.
Now that we know matcha and chocolate pair well together, why don’t you check out all our other matcha chocolate recipes for you to try at home:
