Matcha Peaflower Latte

MINAHMACCHIATO
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minahmacchiato is a home cafe on instagram that started off as experimenting new drinks inspired by the intricate café menus at Seoul, Korea. Picking up this newfound hobby during the quarantine, she encourages her viewers to have fun with colourful ingredients in their drinks. Her home café style videos are bubbly and stress relieving, ranging from iced lattes, refreshing teas, and fruity mixtures.

“The cafes were amazing and recreating some drinks I had [at Seoul] became my goal.”

Adrina / @minahmacchiato

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Interview with @minahmacchiato

How did you get started on creating your home cafe on instagram?

I’ve always followed Korean homecafe accounts on Instagram and YouTube, which have been a source of stress relief during my hectic university days. But what made it into a reality was when I got back from Seoul and quarantine had started shortly a few weeks later. Just like everyone else with much time on my hands, I ended up making my own home cafe account named minahmacchiato! Most of the inspiration I got was from my trip to Seoul, the cafes were amazing and recreating some drinks I had there became my goal.

How did you get started on creating homecafe style videos on instagram?

I’ve always followed Korean homecafe accounts on Instagram and YouTube, which have been a source of stress relief during my hectic university days. But what made it into a reality was when I got back from Seoul and quarantine had started shortly a few weeks later. Just like everyone else with much time on my hands, I ended up making my own home cafe account named minahmacchiato! Most of the inspiration I got was from my trip to Seoul, the cafes were amazing and recreating some drinks I had there became my goal.

Any tips to share with your viewers on filming aesthetic drink recipes?

Personally, to me, good lighting and backdrop/deco is all you need. It’s a shock to some people that I use my IPhone XR to record and edit the whole video cause I do not have the energy and time to use a laptop for it but I admire others who do!

Personal tips for your recipe viewers when working with Matcha recipes.

Matcha can be intimidating to some cause with the wrong ratio of ingredients it might be too bitter or too sweet. Some may have their own preference on how they like their matcha, so I definitely advise to do a trial and error till you get the right taste of it!

How did you come up with Matcha Peaflower Latte recipe?

I’ve been trying out some gradient drinks and butterfly pea flower was used a lot in my other recipes cause of the pretty colour. So it’s my first time doing it with matcha and the end result produced a beautiful drink!

How did you find using REN / Matcha powder for this recipe?

I was quite skeptical to use butterfly pea flower with matcha, but with REN / Matcha surprisingly both flavours match well especially if you’re into a nutty earthy taste.

Any tips to share with your viewers on filming aesthetic drink recipes?

Personally, to me, good lighting and backdrop/deco is all you need. It’s a shock to some people that I use my IPhone XR to record and edit the whole video cause I do not have the energy and time to use a laptop for it but I admire others who do!

Personal tips for your recipe viewers when working with Matcha recipes.

Matcha can be intimidating to some cause with the wrong ratio of ingredients it might be too bitter or too sweet. Some may have their own preference on how they like their matcha, so I definitely advise to do a trial and error till you get the right taste of it!

How did you come up with Matcha Peaflower Latte recipe?

I’ve been trying out some gradient drinks and butterfly pea flower was used a lot in my other recipes cause of the pretty colour. So it’s my first time doing it with matcha and the end result produced a beautiful drink!

How did you find using REN / Matcha powder for this recipe?

I was quite skeptical to use butterfly pea flower with matcha, but with REN / Matcha surprisingly both flavours match well especially if you’re into a nutty earthy taste.

RECIPE

Matcha Peaflower Latte

by @minahmacchiato

Prep time : 10 mins

Ingredients

2 & 1/4 tsp REN / Matcha powder
2 tsp icing sugar
50ml warm water (75-85'C)
120ml Milk (any choice of dairy/plant-base protein)
Ice cubes

Peaflower mixture:
2 tbsp dried peaflower
100ml warm water (75-85'C)

Method To Assemble

In a glass, add ice, milk, and followed by the matcha mixture.
To get the blue color from the drink, it is actually from the dried peaflower! Just add some hot water to it and brew it for a few mins till it turn to your desired purple color.
Pour the peaflower mixture into the matcha latte and it’ll turn blue, forming a beautiful gradient that you can show off to your friends!

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