Matcha Cream Cheese 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 Cream Cheese Latte recipe?

My first time trying a cream cheese-based drink is from a boba store, and I fell in love with it. So from that day I started adding cream cheese foam on all of my drinks but matcha with cream cheese just hits the right spot!

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

Using YURI / Matcha was easy and the slight bitterness of it complements the sweetness of the cream cheese. I highly recommend everyone to try it!

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 Cream Cheese Latte recipe?

My first time trying a cream cheese-based drink is from a boba store, and I fell in love with it. So from that day I started adding cream cheese foam on all of my drinks but matcha with cream cheese just hits the right spot!

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

Using YURI / Matcha was easy and the slight bitterness of it complements the sweetness of the cream cheese. I highly recommend everyone to try it!

RECIPE

Matcha Cream Cheese Latte

by @minahmacchiato

Prep time : 10 mins

Ingredients

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

Cream Cheese foam:
60ml whip cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 spoonful of cream cheese
3 tsp icing sugar
Pinch of salt

Method To Assemble

Place all the cream cheese ingredients in a container and mix till it looks super creamy (You can either use YUKIWA / Matcha Mixer to get a faster result or if you want a workout, using a shaker would work too!)
Mix YURI / Matcha powder, sugar and water in a small bowl.
In a glass, add ice, milk, and followed by the matcha mixture.
Once you’re happy with it, just pour it all over your matcha latte, and now you can savour the creamy cheese foam together with the familiar taste of matcha.

Tip: If you want the cream cheese to be fluffier, you should mix it a bit longer to get that whip cream consistency.