With matcha treats being such a prevalent part of the Japanese dessert scene, it might be surprising to know that green tea-flavored sweets are a pretty recent trend. Sure, green tea ice cream has been around for a long time, but most of the matcha snacks and beverages for
With matcha treats being such a prevalent part of the Japanese dessert scene, it might be surprising to know that green tea-flavored sweets are a pretty recent trend. Sure, green tea ice cream has been around for a long time, but most of the matcha snacks and beverages for sale in Japan only got started within the past decade or so.
Cafes and confectioners mixing matcha with other flavors is an even newer innovation. If wasn’t until a couple of years ago that people really caught on to how delicious matcha and white chocolate are together, for example, and so Starbucks is ready to blaze a new trail with some bold matcha flavor pairings.
First up is the Matcha & Fruity Mascarpone Frappuccino. While matcha tea and mascarpone aren’t a completely unprecedented combination (we encountered it during our taste test of an edible Japanese garden), this is Starbucks’ first time to combine green tea and cheese flavors in the same beverage, with the mascarpone also having Muscat grape notes.
