Cooking Japanese: Matcha Muffins

Hey guys (^-^)v

Recently we had a week off so I found some time to bake something ^-^ It's been so long since I had time for this and I really wanted to try making Matcha Muffins. I told my father about this before, so he was so kind as to give me matcha as a birthday present!

I used a recipe from the German cooking blog 'Nekobento'.

Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated for some years now, but I still like to visit their website to find some yummy stuff. And most recipes are really easy so even no cooking talents like me can do it xD

Nekobento's recipe is for only six muffins, but since I have a baking mould for 12, I just doubled the amount of everything.

Here is what you need:

240g flour

150g cream cheese

150g sugar

100g butter

100ml milk (I used oat milk)

2 eggs

20g matcha

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

 

weighting sugar

First, you need butter, sugar, and the cream cheese.

Fill it into a bowl and mix it.

Mix the eggs with the milk and then put it into the bowl with the other stuff and mix it again.

(Left: sugar, butter, and cream cheese; right: ...mixed with eggs and milk)

Now take another bowl to mix the flour, baking powder, and matcha, sift it through a sieve into the bowl with the other ingredients and mix everything.

 When you're done, fill everything into the baking mold and bake for about 25 minutes.

If you want, you can sprinkle them with powder sugar when they've cooled down:

I hope you enjoy them! ♥

Thanks for reading and see you next time (^-^)v

Selfmade Bubble Tea

Hi there (^.^)v

don't worry, this won't become a cooking blog x3

But since I'm very busy at the moment

here is just a small entry for you about my first selfamde Bubble Tea.

As you can guess from my others post: I love Bubble Tea ♥

In my opinion it's one of the best inventions in mankind xD

I love going to our local BoboQ store with my friends,

but sadly I don't have much time for this at the moment..

So I wanted to make my own Bubble Tea ^.^

Let me show you how to do it x3

So, first of all, this is what you need:

-Tea (I choose green tea, but you can also use another one)

-flavoured syrup (I choose passion fruit flavour)

-Tapioka pearls

I used small tapioka pearls (because they were colourful and looked so cute *-*), but they original recipe takes the bigger black ones (which I will use next time x3)

Ok, then you have to make some tea.

Better do this in advance, because it needs to cool down ^.^

Next step is to cook the tapioka pearls.

For one part of pearls, take eight parts of water.

Put the water into a pot and boil it.

When it boiles put in the tapioka pearls.

But really don't do it before the water boils! I read reports

about the pearls melting when warming together with the water q.q

Turn down the stove to medium heat and cook the pearls for 15-20 minutes.

The larger pearls need to be cooked longer, for some 35 minutes,

oh and don't use too much pearls x3 

I used a half cup and you will see how much came out of it...

After cooking the tapioka pearls,

put them in a colander and pour them with cold water.

Then put them in a bowl or something similar.

I think it's five times more than before cooking O.O

After cooking the pearls might be very sticky.

To avoid this, you can make some kind of syrup to put them in.

For this just boil 240 millilitre of water with 220 millilitre of sugar

until the sugar is dissolved. Let the mixture cool down and

then pour it over the tapioka pearls.

Conserved like this you can use it for two days when put in the fridge.

With all these preaparations done you are ready to make you Bubble Tea \(^-^)/

just tea

tea with syrup

and with bubbles ^-^

Later on I tryed a version with pomegranate juice ^-^

I really liked my selfmade Bubble Tea ^.^
Feel free to try it yourself x3

Thanks for reading ^.^
and by the way, I also have twitter now x3
so feel free to add me as Ari Pancake ♥

See you next time (^.^)v

Cooking Japanese: Onigiri ♥

Hi there (^.^)v

it's a cooking post again this time ♥

Some time ago I tried to make onigiri (riceballs) for the frist time.

I think they turned out quite good,

so let me show you how to make them:

 This is what you need:

- rice (obviously)

- nori (dried sea weed sheets)

- something to fill them (I used furikake for flavour)

and optional: an onigiri mold

First, you need to cook the rice.

When it is done, the rice need to cool down to become more sticky.

Because I used furikake to give flavour to the rice,

I devided it into two and sprinkled it with furikake.

I used two different flavours:

the left is with various vegetables

and the right on with perilla (a kind of herb)

Then you are ready to shape the rice into onigiri ^.^

Usually they have a triangle form

like the onigiri mold I used

I wraped them into wrapping film to store them in fridge over night.

You can eat them right after shaping them, but I wanted

to take them with me next day for Fashion Walk in Hamburg.

So on the next day, I wrapped them into nori sheets.

(it's better to do this briefly before eating them,

because the nori soaks a lot water and becomes quite chewy then)

They people who tried them, said the were good ^-^

But I still need to improve a lot.

Next time I will try to fill them x3

Feel free to try to make them yourself ^-^

Onigiri are really delicious *-*

One of my favourite japanese food ♥

Thank you for reading and see you next time (^.^)v

Cooking Japanese: My first Dorayaki try *\(^O^)/*

Hey guys (^.^)v

today I' ve just a small recipe for you ^.^

Some weeks ago I've managed to bake my first selfmade dorayaki!

Dorayaki basically are japanese pancakes filled with anko (red bean paste).

I love them so much and always buy them

when I'm in Düsseldorf ♥

this is what they look like when you buy them

I'm not really good at cooking, so I'm very happy this one worked x3

I used the recipe from nekobento.com but it's in german only...

 For about eight pieces you need:

175g Flour

150g Anko

80g Sugar

3 Eggs

1 Tbs. Honey

3 Tsp. Water

1/2 Tsp. Backing Powder 

Then you just mix everthing, except the Anko,

and let it prove for about half an hour

(the actual recipe says for 45 minutes, but I did it the first time

and my pancakes became so damn fluffy that it was

hard to eat the two of them with Anko inside x'D).

After this is done, you are ready to bake small pancakes ^.^

They should have a calibre of 7cm and have a round shape.

It should be around 16 pancakes in total,

so you can make 8 dorayaki out of it.

Let the pancakes cool down and then just spread Anko

on one pancake and put another one on top of it. Done (^.^)v

Not as good-looking as the ones you can buy,

but my family and I liked them ^.^

Plus: they are much cheaper to make it on your own

than to buy some x3

See you next time (^.^)v