If you have an ice cream maker hiding in your pantry….or if you can safely steal borrow your neighbor’s ice cream maker that has been neglected without getting caught, please….just PLEASE bring it out and give it some love!
Matcha White Chocolate Ice Cream is so elegantly rich that a little scoop is all you need. I found this post from Kuidaore, where I just simply fell in love with the idea of pairing Matcha with White Chocolate.
Since I had just finished making a batch of Matcha Finishing Salt
and had plenty of Matcha green tea powder left over, this was a perfect recipe to try. I’ve simplified the recipe just a bit.
Of all the ice cream flavors I had all summer (and believe me, I’ve sampled more than I really should admit to) this is by far my favorite ice cream flavor. Matcha White Chocolate Ice Cream will be a regular treat at my home. Its even fancy-sounding enough to serve at gourmet dinner parties….shhhhh….you and I will know that it was a cinch to make.
Matcha White Chocolate Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon fine salt
- 4 large egg yolks
- 8 ounces white chocolate, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons matcha powder, sifted
Instructions
- In a medium heavy saucepan, bring the cream, milk, sugar and salt to a simmer over low heat, stirring constantly.
- While whisking eggs, pour about 1/2 cup of the hot cream mixture in a thin, steady stream in the bowl of eggs. This should temper the eggs. Now pour the tempered eggs in the rest of the saucepan with the hot cream mixture, in a thin, steady stream while whisking the hot cream.
- Cook over low heat, constantly stirring, just until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon, about 5 minutes. Do not let this mixture boil. Pour this mixture through a strainer lined with cheesecloth.
- Place the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 2 1/2 minutes, stirring at 30 second intervals until chocolate is melted. Add the matcha powder to the chocolate and stir vigorously with whisk to mix well. Add this to the strained hot cream and stir to blend. Cool this mixture and refrigerate until chilled.
- Freeze according to the instructions for your ice cream machine.
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It seems like a delicious ice cream flavor that the kids will surely want to try. Thanks for sharing.
It’s interesting see white chocolate ice cream turned green. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Hi!!
This sounds like an AMAZING recipe! Where can i but good quality matcha powder. Most places here in New York only carry tiny bottles!
I love Green Tea Ice Cream! Your recipe is almost identical to mine except I put a whole cup of sugar in it, and just before I put the cooled mixture in the freezer, I stir in a cup of creme fraiche. The last ingredient adds a touch of flavor that is indescribably yummy in my humble opinion. By the way, I really love your blog.
I love the recipe. And that it doesn’t do the “metal bowl over not boiling water” bit, I can’t fanangle that for some reason. This’ll be the perfect dessert for my shabu-shabu party tomorrow. -on a side note though, you need to edit some previous comments, or allow me (hehe), they’re seriously not up to par with most of your readers. And I usually insist on reading all the comments because you’ve got such an awesome site!
Good. Nora, all wrong. He ran her cryfor big white ass free porn fear of.
Dave- I didn’t see green tea powder at Wong Kai the last time I went. It doesn’t have to be Japanese Green Tea powder – but of course the better quality of powder you use, the better your ice cream will taste!
If you want Green Tea Powder in the Sarasota/Bradenton, FL, area, you can get it at Wong Kai Imports just off SR 70 and 33rd St. East (just west of the Braden River Post Office) in Bradenton. Jaden, does it have to be JAPANESE Green Tea powder? This one has both Japanese and Chinese characters on the outside, so I assume it’s OK. If it’s not, let us know.
For any of you wanting matcha Japanese Green Tea Powder, Google same and you will find lots of places where you can buy it, even Amazon. So………Matcha White Chocolate Ice Cream coming up !!!
Where do you get matcha green tea powder (in the Sarasota area)?
Matcha and white chocolate are two of my favorite flavours. I am really wishing that I had an ice cream maker now.
The photo is amazing.
Oh, to die for!!!! Will you send me some, oh wait, darn, ice cream melts!!! Such beautiful colors and photography!
I got an ice cream maker that I never used. Each time I see a delicious recipe like this, I feel guilty. I will be converted one of these days 🙂
That ice cream looks great with the flower! I’ve been eyeing the same kuidaore recipe for a while now – it’s not really summer weather here and I don’t have an ice cream maker, but I’ve been in a ‘Japanese’ mood lately, so I might just have to make it anyway.
Sigh..went to Macy, there had one on sale, 49 bucks, made a detour somewhere and didn’t make it back on time 🙁 I’m still thinking…had a noise in my head “is it gonna collect dust like “”some”” of your other tools” you had ? shoot..what to do ? I’ll be starring at your Matcha white choc ice cream now ! Till then .. 😛
miam,..que c’est bon!!
I made a cupcake ice cream bomb using a regular matcha ice cream, i bet this would be great on it!
http://vanillagarlic.blogspot.com/2007/06/chocolate-cupcakes-with-matcha-ice.html
Hi Jaden, what taste the matcha has?
Is it bitter?
I would like to prove but here it’s difficult to find it.
Bye
That ice cream looks decadent! Oh I am thisclose to getting an ice cream maker already!
Love the pic 😉 Gosh, those eighties…
Hi Jaden, I saw that recipe at Joycelyn’s too. Pity it’s so not ice-cream weather at the moment. I love the little orchid with the ice cream. So pretty. 🙂
Btw your “Madonna in 80’s look” rock! 😀
That ice cream’s so drool worthy! 😀
And that picture of you looking like Madonna in the 80s is really bold lol! Man, 80’s fashion is soooooo bad, luckily it’s all sorta fuzzy right now 😛
OH my God, Jaden!!!………. your matcha white chocolat ice cream looks so beautiful and exotic . . . . . . . just like you do. For sure now, . . . . . most of us are going bananas with matcha.
I wrote up an entry on you today in the blog I write for my day job, CULTURE SHOCK. Here’s a link: http://tbpac.blogspot.com/2007/07/food-porn-par-excellence.html
Keep up the incredible work. You’ve inspired me now on several occasions!
Another great looking recipe, using my fave ingredients :o) Two Thumbs UP!
SK-
Nunchuks? Now I know you’re no Yakuza. Try Nunchaku, or shu?ng ji� g�n if you want to be really cool. Either way, Yakuza wouldn’t work for you anyway, hailing from HK. So Triad, I guess….
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Lynn- but did your Mom make you wear Princess Leia hair buns?
Honest Ape- dude. call me Yakuza and I’ll whip out my nunchucks
Argus- hehehe…you send me good looking talented Deutsch cooking man and you might not get him back!!!
Sarah- Matcha is Japanese fine green tea powder
Ari- I thought I lost my angelic aura of innocence!!!
I mean, what fun is a cooking show hostess without hooker heels?
First: what a beautiful ice cream! I love the colors, and the presentation is beyond – looks like something you would order in an elegant restaurant.
Second: you will never lose your mystical, ANGELIC aura. Never!
So, apparently I am the only one brave enough to raise my hand and ask “What is Matcha?” I cant be the only one who doesnt know…
Is it just green tea? Regardless, it looks awesome!
Hey, Steamy, send me your ice-cream maker and I’ll send you my Deutsch cooking man. Well, just for a week or two. ;-D
I read your “5 Things” post. A few comments.
1. I also dip McD’s fries in soft-serve. And I got my wife to start doing it.
2. Despite your assertions to the contrary, I do not have the same photo in my closet. To my recollection, I have no pictures of me as an a young Asian woman who looks like an up-and-coming member of the Yakuza.
Beautiful color on the ice cream and the orchid garnish takes my breath away! My particular brand of 80’s awesomeness was shoulder pads and a bad perm. My daughter won’t let me forget it.
WC- how about I just send my lear jet over and you come to my home?
Brilynn- great minds think alike!!
Rowena- no soapie here! it was yum.
Hillary- thank u!
Marvin Marvin Marvin- we were SO DAMN cool back then.
Mercedes- it doesn’t feel as unhealthy if i make it from scratch!
Ninja, W&S, Argus, Tiger, Melinda, Oishii, Ellie- We need to get all us bloggers together and pool our gadgets and appliances!!! b/c now I’m “ice-cream’d out” and the icecream maker is going back to the garage….
Lydia- yeah, its about time that you join the ice cream revolution
Sue Ann- no YOU are awesome!!! how are the “girls” doing?
You ice-cream making food bloggers, you! *sniffles* Now that I’ve read how easy this is, and seen how absolutely delicious it looks, I don’t think I can live without this matcha and white choc ice cream! But alas, I have no ice cream maker 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 It will have to be bookmarked for one day in the future when I have my hands on such a gadget…till then, I will resign myself to licking the computer screen :/
Are you reading my mind?
I’ve been planning on making this, the only difference is that I want to add raspberries too…
I’m another one – no ice-cream maker, and don’t even know my neighbor (how to borrow?). I feel so lousy now….I can’t eat your ice-cream and the nearest ice-cream parlor does not have this flavor too 🙁
No ice cream maker here either. (or a rice cooker for that matter!)
Love the cool Madonna look. I have a mullet hair cut in my school pictures, but we called it a shag hair cut then. *Cringe* Which is worse?
Can you wrap it up in an ice cooler and bring this the next time you’re in town? 🙂
Tai over at Scoops made the best Matcha Maple ice cream. The initial taste was smooth maple and then it finished with a sweet lingering matcha. So damn good. I want an ice cream maker now!
This looks delicious- Ciao Bella make a matcha-white choc. ice cream, but homemade is always better!
Wow, matcha and white chocolate seem like they would be perfect together.
And I must admit, I pegged my jeans in the 80’s too. I thought only guys did that. But I guess “coolness” knows no gender;)
Mmmm… I ate some green tea ice cream last night, but this looks better!
Gotta grab my ice cream maker out again! Love the combination! Also love that punk-rocker look with the cool hair-cut you have in the picture there! Very hip! 🙂
Heh heh…in regards to your comment, I asked the guys. And even if they replied in italian, the english equivalent would have been something along the lines of Porky Pig’s “I b-believe, I b-believe, that’s all folks!”
I’ll have to rethink my position on Matcha Tea icecream….the last one I tried (and I won’t say which company) tasted like soap. {argghh…}
That looks to elegant! I haven’t had ice cream in a long time but if I had an ice cream maker, I would be in serious trouble!!!!!!!!!!! Jaden, your photos are just so awesome! You are awesome!
That ice cream looks absolutely beautiful — and will be the perfect excuse to dust off my ice cream machine and get that canister in the freezer!
Oooo… one of my favourite ice-cream flavours too, but I don’t have an ice-cream maker either. 🙁 I could sidle up to Herr Schmidt next door with fluttering eyelashes, but then I found out he’s my friend’s husband’s uncle. *sigh* Switzerland is too small for brazen broads.
Me neither. No ice cream maker 🙁 The matcha ice cream sounds great and I love the photo paired with the orchid!
ps.
Hehe – love the white sneakers!
So sad, don’t have an ice cream maker neither do the old lady who lives next door to us. 🙁