The power of GREEN. We find Matcha Green Tea included in desserts from cakes, pancakes and waffles, which can translate to more LIKES on your social media feed.
Also Matcha is said to be packed with antioxidants (anything to stay young), helps calm the mind, lowers cholesterol and blood sugar (not sure if it happens when included into cakes).
This is an update of the previous entry on 30 Matcha Desserts in Singapore. (Hope to reach 50 soon.)
40 Matcha Desserts In Singapore – Green Tea Is So Amazing & Instagrammable
Matcha Pop
Matchaya – Icon Village Tanjong Pagar
For an indulgent treat, get the instagrammable Cha Cha Pop priced at a more-expensive-than-usual $8.
This popsicle is a collaboration with the notti-sounding Neh Neh Pop, looking like a dual-coloured Magnum with Matcha and Houjicha shell, covering creamy matcha ice cream.
Matcha Waffles
Tuk Tuk Cha – Jurong Point #02-K9/K10
Latest to the Tuk Tuk Cha menu are Waffles ($9.80), available at the Jurong Point, Sun Plaza, Suntec and Junction 8 outlets.
Choose 2 waffles from a selection of MATCHA, original, chocolate, and red velvet; and one scoop of ice cream (vanilla, choc, mango, coconut, Thai Milk Tea, Thai Green Milk Tea).
Had both the matcha and red velvet base (which actually didn’t make a whole lot of difference other than colours), the outer layer could have been a lot of crisp, with fluffier texture.
Matcha Pie
DW Workshop – 41 Rochester Drive
Matcha Pie ($8.90) which has this sweetish milky matcha filling on crumbly pie. I wished it had a tad more bitterness, and less sweetness though, but this was good enough for satisfaction.
Matcha Montblanc
Kyushu Pancake Singapore – 275 Thomson Road Novena Regency
I had the Matcha Montblanc ($18) because it probably combines three of my favourite things in a single dish.
The fresh cream was light (and didn’t make me feel fat), the pancakes were ‘Asian’-tasting and less buttery, more doughy and grainy, and not entirely super sweet. So it was a more guilt-free dessert.
Matcha Custard Puff
Neato – Burlington Square #01-55
Baked freshly every day (expect 20-30 minutes wait if you missed a batcha), the Matcha Custard Puff ($3) comes with flowy lava centre.
Matcha Azuki Cake
Doutor Coffee 株式会社ドトールコーヒー – Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, #01-05
I suspect not many know there is actually Doutor Coffee in Singapore. Doutor is a popular Japanese retail company specialising in coffee roasting and coffee cafes, with over 1200 outlets around the world. My favourite branch being the one at Ginza.
Get one of the Matcha + Azuki Cake. This combination seldom goes wrong.
Matcha Opera
Henri Charpentier – Orchard Central
The Matcha Opera ($9.00) contains layers of almond sponge cake soaked in matcha syrup, layered with matcha butter cream and white chocolate ganache.
A flavour of matcha with an accent of hidden orange confit.
Matcha Fromage
Henri Charpentier – Orchard Central
Fluffy Hanjuku Fromage ($3.00) souffle-style baked cheesecake infused with Itoen Matcha.
Matcha Choux
Ollella – Residence@Somme, 3 Petain Road
Ollella specialises in making choux pastries filled with luscious creams. Their Matcha Choux ($4.50) contains green craqueline choux, matcha chantilly, with sweet azuki beans.
Iced Matcha with Espresso
Starbucks – Various branches
(Not a dessert, but I thought I should include this in.) Starbucks has introduced a Teapresso range, available primary in Asia. It’s iced matcha and espresso, with layered colours (cue: instagrammable), have proven to be very popular among Singaporeans.
Matcha Salted Egg Lava Toast
The Bakery Chef – Jalan Bt Merah
Ah-huh, you may have seen this video from Insider making their rounds on Insider, and this humble cake café at Jalan Bukit Merah from Singapore has propelled to instant fame.
For $14.80, you get a choice of toast (charcoal, brioche or matcha), fillings (salted egg, Nutella or matcha) and a non-optional topup of chocolate, vanilla or matcha ice cream.
A toast with crispy layer and oozing centre has driven some instagrammers on a frenzy.
Matcha Avalanche
Non Entrée Desserts – Rangoon Road
Cray cray. This is warm Matcha Green Tea Lava Cake ($13.90) with Azuki Beans flowing onto smokey roasted green tea gelato, crunchy almond nougatine and chocolate soil.
Loved the textural contrast after the visually euphoric moment.
Matcha Salted Egg Croissant
Asanoya Bakery – Queen Street
The Matcha Salted Egg Croissant ($4.90) is served in limited quantities from 11am onwards while stocks last.
The pastry came petite-sized, and I would wish for the crust to be fluffier. However, the combination actually worked.
While salted egg still took main priority and pretty much overpowered everything else in terms of taste, there was subtle notes of green tea which gave an added dimension.
Matcha Polo Ice
NICEDAY – Tiong Bahru Plaza
The Polo Ice ($6.90) is probably the most unique of the NICEDAY series, which reminded me of a particular type of bingsu I had in Seoul.
The bowl of powdered icy snow comes in various flavours like MATCHA, and in a shape of a Hong Kong style pineapple bun – apparently quite big in the southern Taiwan now.
As you dig further into the ‘snow’, you find hidden treasures like grass jelly, red bean, nata, mochi balls. You can then further add in taro and sweet potato balls, and mix all around.
Matcha Soft Roll ($4)
Redpan – Marina Square
Redpan’s Matcha Soft Roll ($4) is supposedly supplied from Dulcet & Studio. So anyway… this is one of the few matcha rolls around with some deep lingering green tea flavours, and the outer texture was soft and fluffy.
This is what I call Matcha-Rolling in the deep.
Matcha Snowflake Ice
Smoothie House – One Raffles Place
The Matcha and Red Bean Snowflake Ice with Panna Cotta ($12.90) has resembles the bingsu that I usually order, but it is not. I would describe the texture of most bingsu like fine snow, while the Taiwanese shaved ice having more folds and layers.
The matcha imported from Japan is on the slightly bitter side, but fans of red bean should relish this.
Matcha Azuki Tea
Teapresso – Toa Payoh Central
Teapresso is quite unlike the typical bubble tea shops you see out there. A major difference is, tea is actually brewed and extracted on the spot.
One of the top sellers is the Matcha Azuki Tea ($2.90), many’s favourite combination of green tea latte with sweet red bean at the bottom. You can scoop it up towards the end of the drink, or mix them all together to have red bean on every sip.
Matcha Oki Machi
Oki Machi – Toa Payoh Central
Other than Teapresso drinks, the kiosk also sells Oki Machi – Taiwanese style muah chee with different flavours such as Matcha Creamy Milk (1 piece $2, 4 pieces $6).
You may have seen stalls selling this at Taipei’s Shilin Nightmarket and Ning Xia Nightmarket.
The sticks are freshly grilled on the spot using a waffle-machine, may have to wait a while, but you will leave with these crispy, chewy sticks drizzled with addictive sauces.
Matcha Opera
Patisserie Platine – Marina Bay Sands
A ‘Waku Ghin’ cake at celebrity Chef Tetsuya Wakuda’s Patisserie Platine.
The Matcha Opera ($10) did feel off-balanced, with the espresso and coffee butter cream suppressing its overall taste. The matcha components turned out to take a weak secondary role.
Matcha Ice Cream Roll
21 Cube Artisan Ice Cream – Scape
Here’s how it works. You order a base flavor (say matcha) and add in mixes of fruits, cookies and sauces such as nutella.
$4.90 for base with 1 mixer, $5.40 for 2 mixers. Customers decide what you go into their ice cream. Ah, the autonomy, freedom, and ‘creativity’ in deciding your very own ice cream flavours.
I liked the ice cream’s smooth creamy texture, easily eaten as they are cut into bite-sized pieces.
Matcha Eclair
L’ÉCLAIR by Sarah Michelle – Clemenceau Avenue
The Matcha éclair ($8) was rich and not overly intense, with a slight bitterness after taste.
As we cut the matcha eclair into smaller bits (they were too long to pop it into our mouths), the liquid matcha flowed out like a lava cake (Let it flow, let it flow, can’t hold it back anymore).
Matcha Chou Pop
Patties & Wiches – Ngee Ann City
The must-get item at Patties & Wiches is the Chou-Pop ($3) baked by patisserie Fumi Araya who is based in the café itself.
At a value-for-money pricing, this cream puff dessert in flavours of matcha, strawberry or mango, contains delightfully smooth cream that would make most Japanese tai-tais go “Oishii ne!” with that million-dollar expression matched with a shy smile.
Matcha Milkshake
Cake Spade – Tanjong Pagar
Once upon a time, OTT milkshakes were VERY in trend.
For the Cake Shakes at Cake Spade, the Matcha Azuki seemed to be the best tasting shake. But other than the matcha goma cake, I couldn’t help thinking that the others are just rather ‘economical’ ingredients.
Matcha Shibuya Toast
Wa Café – Chinatown Point
Wa’s Matcha and Ogura Shibuya Toast ($17.80) is dazzling. Opps. The honey toast was thick yet fluffy, topped with smooth matcha and vanilla ice cream, mocha and ogura Japanese red bean. Absolutely satisfying, recommended 2 or more to share. One of my favourite (and hidden) Japanese café in Singapore.
Matcha Souffle
Miam Miam French Japanese Café Kitchen – Bugis Junction, Westgate, Tampines One
This Japanese-French style soufflé is oven-baked only when ordered. Do leave a 20 minute waiting time. Quite airy, fluffy, with tinge of bitter matcha aftertaste.
Matcha Softserve
AmaSoy – Jurong Point (next to MOF)
AmaSoy’s Matcha Softserve is great value for money. The texture is milky and smooth, as good as those you would get in Japanese restaurants, matched with a subtle delicate taste of green tea.
Matcha Iced Blended
Tsujiri Tea House – 100AM Tanjong Pagar, 313 @ Somerset
If you need a thirst quencher, go for Uji Kintoki ($5.80) shaved ice with green tea syrup, or O-maccha Milk Ice Blended ($5.50). The latter one of the most ‘matcha’ of many drinks I had – you can really taste the ‘green-teaness’ and fine distinct quality of the powder in its subtlely.
Matcha Cake with Goma
Dolce Tokyo – 313 @ Somerset
Photogenic much. Matcha Cake with Goma ($11.50) which comes served in a Japanese-style bird cage.
I hear Dolce Tokyo make them in small quantities daily. We may have seen many green tea azuki cakes versions around, but not quiite green tea black sesame. The best part? The crunchy green tea crumble on its top layer. Though considered quite expensive.
Matcha Anmitsu
Nana’s Green Tea Café The Atrium @ Orchard, Plaza Singapura
Nana’s Green Tea was once voted as the No. 1 Japanese cafe for matcha lovers (in Japan lah, not here), and had been known as Japanese’s version to Starbucks.
Its desserts such as its Matcha Anmitsu ($8.80) and parfaits are definitely its strength. It may not blow you away but makes a decent afternoon tea-time treat, with its azuki red bean paste smooth and satisfying.
Matcha Pancake
Hoshino Coffee – Plaza Singapura, Suntec City, Capitol Piazza
Hoshino Coffee is already quite popular in Japan, specialising in hand-dripped coffee and fluffy soufflé pancakes.
Its signature Pancake Souffle Style with Matcha and Ogura Bean Paste ($13.50) will take long to serve as they are freshly made on the spot, and accordingly their oven can only produce 6 at a single time.
Matcha Chococro
St Marc Café – Vivocity, Raffles City, Marina Square, Parkland Green East Coast Parkway
Many buy St Marc Café’s Chococro in boxes of 5. The Matcha Daifuku Chococro ($2.60) is crispy flaky matcha chocolate croissant with mochi and red bean within. Quite super when eaten warm.
Maccha Dorayaki
Maccha House – Orchard Central
This is what Doreamon would have loved. Maccha House serves a larger version of the Maccha Azuki Bean Dorayaki ($8.40). Not overly fantastic reviews for some other items.
Go for the Maccha Parfaits which come with rice flour, chocolate or soy milk pudding. They even serve the Hot Maccha drink the traditional way – self-concocted out of a bowl.
Green Tea Bingsu
Nunsaram Korean Dessert Café – Orchard Central
Nunsaram’s bingsu is one of the most photogenic. Just look at this Green Tea Bingsu ($13.90) with ice cream, generous scoop of red bean and almond nut slices. The Korean cafe also uses one of those expensive bingsu machines, ensuring snowflake-like shavings, though we felt it was still not as smooth as some of the prominent ones.
Matcha Chiffon Cake
Dulcet & Studio – Liang Court River Valley Road
Opened by Tampopo Group, Dulcet & Studio is a self-service café which cooking studio at one end. So cakes are of a certain quality. The café has quite a range of matcha desserts from éclairs, puddings to this rather creamy chiffon cake ($7).
Matcha Tiramisu
L’Atelier Tiramisu – The Central at Clarke Quay
When Japan meets Italy. The Matcha Tiramisu ($15 for 250gm) contains biscuits soaked in a Japanese green tea brew, and still retains the essence of a tiramisu.
Matcha Lava Cake
Babette Restaurant & Bar – Tyrwhitt Road Parc Sovereign Hotel
Matcha Lava ($12) green tea infused cake is one of the few cakes I had that both tasted and smelled ‘matcha’, almost brilliant, but perhaps overpowered by the over-sweet white chocolate fondant.
Green Tea Mille Crepe Cake
Lady M – Orchard Central
Green Tea Mille Crepe ($9/slice) where the sweetness of the pastry cream wedded the subtlety of the fine green tea powder. You can choose either to peel layer by layer, or take a bite of its entirety. My method is the former.
Matcha Pound Cake
Nicher – Blk 71 Seng Poh Road Tiong Bahru
Nicher is such an understated stall. Its Matcha Azuki Pound Cake ($14) with whole Hokkaido azuki beans is quality stuff, robust in green tea flavour, best paired with a cup of hot tea. Note: Always sold out early (say late afternoon).
Matcha Frozen Custard
Density Frozen Custard – Short Street
Frozen custard, not exactly ice cream. Prices were $4 for single scoop, $7 for double, $9.50 for triple, and $9 for a two scoop sundae with 2 toppings and sauce.
The texture was true to its name ‘denser’, smooth and creamy, won’t feel like there is air or ice crystals ‘trapped’ within. It reminded me of a velvety version of thickened gelato. The matcha flavour though, is not available all the time.
Let me know if there are any special MATCHA desserts around.
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