Green tea (matcha) redbean mochi cupcakes - 抹茶紅豆QQ杯子蛋糕

Redbean + matcha a combination that always seems to work wonderfully for desserts. I've thus decided to make it into mochi cupcakes too! I’ve made this quite a few times so some of you may have tried some already. anyhow, i decided to share the recipe with all of you. I originally found this recipe online, but made a few changes to it so i’ll share it with you guys.

Here we go!


Materials:

• A 6 oz. evaporated milk
• B 8 oz. glutinous rice flour
• C 1 tsp. vanilla extract (optional, but advised)
• D 1 tsp. baking powder (NOT baking soda)
• E 1/2 cup of butter (look at the wrapping paper on the butter, it’ll tell you the volume)
• F 1 cup granulated sugar
• G ~1 1/2 tsp matcha powder (add/subtract depending on your preference)
• H 2 eggs
• I redbean paste (add according to your preference)
• J cupcake pan and cupcake cups
• Hand mixer (not shown)

Directions:

1. soften butter. you may choose to place the butter in the mixing bowl and put it in the microwave for 10 -20 seconds to soften it if it’s fresh out of the fridge and really hard (Note: it’s ok if a part of the butter melts into liquid, but do not melt the entire stick, just allow it to soften so you may mix it smoothly with a handmixer). Then add sugar into the softened butter in the mixing bowl.

2. Use the handmixer to cream the sugar and butter together until it looks like a bunch of butter/sugar creamed lumps (shown below).

3. add in the evaporated milk and mix again with handmixer until smooth.

4. add in the eggs and mix again with hand mixer until smooth.

5. add in the vanilla extract (Note: this is optional, but it’ll make the cupcakes taste a lot better!), matcha powder, and baking powder. mix with handmixer again until smooth. the batter should look somewhat greenish due to the matcha powder by now.

6. Add in the glutinous rice flour and mix with handmixer until smooth (Note: I usually add in the glutinous rice flour a quarter of the amount at a time because the flour is really light so if you add it in all at once, it’ll fly everywhere once u start mixing with the handmixer). So add 1/4 of the flour at a time and mix until smooth before adding the next 1/4 in. do so until all of the measured glutinous rice flour is mixed in. By now, the batter should be thicker and seem somewhat pasty in texture.

7. place the cupcake cups into the wells in the cupcake pan and fill each cup ~1/3-1/2 way full of the batter you just made.Pre-heat oven to 350-375F

8. pinch off a gumball size piece of redbean paste, roll it into a ball, then press it falt between your palms. then place one into each cupcake.

9. Fill up each cupcake with more batter so it covers the redbean filling you just placed in. (Note: cupcakes will rise when you bake them so only fill them 75-80% full).

10. place the filled cupcake pan into the previously preheated oven and allow it to bake ~30 minutes.

11. Once the tops of the cupcakes begin to brown, and as time approaches, you may check to see if they are done by poking a fork/tootpick into the cupcakes and pulling it out. If the fork or toothpick appears to be clean (no batter stuck onto it) when you pull it out it means the center of the cupcakes are cooked and near done. you may then take them out. If there still appears to be wet batter stuck to the fork/toothpick, allow it to bake some more and check periodically with this method until baked.

12. Once you remove the cupcakes from the oven, set the cupcakes aside to allow them to cool.

Now you’ve just made your own redbean match mochi cupcakes! so take a bite and enjoy!

These go pretty well with dark coffee or tea! The flavor of this can also be altered depending of your preferences and what ingredients you have. for instance, substituting matcha powder with cocao powder will give you chcoloate flavored ones. I’ve also tried making fresh strawberry ones, which were also delicious. so experiment around and have fun!


:)

-Ney