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Matcha Chocolate Bars
[抹茶チョコバー]

Matcha Chocolate Bars [抹茶チョコバー]

By Denis Elas The Chef
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Sliced matcha chocolate bars with melted dark chocolate chunks stacked on a blue and white patterned plate against a wooden background.
Matcha Chocolate Bars are crisp, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth matcha pieces of rich, dark chocolate and can be whipped up in no time!

Dedicated to my parents

Svetlana and Oleg ❤️

5 from 1 vote
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Japanese
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 25 minutes
Rest Time: 15 minutes
Total: 55 minutes

Equipments

Baking pan 8x8 inch
Parchment paper
Mixing bowl
Whisk
Baking spatula
Grater
Sifter

Ingredients

The Dry

The Wet

The Add-Ins

12 pieces

Cook Mode

To prevent your phone from sleeping (screen turning off)

Instructions
 

The Preparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line an 8 by 8 inch baking pan with parchment paper.
    An empty 8x8 black baking pan lined with white parchment paper held in place by black binder clips on a wooden board.

The Batter

  1. In a big-sized bowl, Sift the 180 g all-purpose flour, 10 g matcha green tea powder, and 1/4 tsp salt together until well-combined. Add the 70 g sugar and whisk to combine.
    A person using a wire mesh strainer to sift all-purpose flour and matcha green tea powder into a large stainless steel mixing bowl on a red kitchen scale.
  2. Grate the 170 g unsalted butter and add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract inside the big bowl and mix slowly.
    A person using a box grater to shred cold butter into a stainless steel bowl containing a dry matcha and flour mixture, sitting on a red digital scale.
  3. Cut in the 80 g dark chocolate into small pieces.
    A pile of roughly chopped dark chocolate pieces resting on a wooden chevron-patterned cutting board.
  4. Also cut and save 10 g dark chocolate to press into the tops of the bars right before baking for a prettier look.
    Two small stainless steel bowls sitting on a wooden cutting board, one filled with a larger portion of chopped dark chocolate and the other with a smaller portion for topping.

The Baking

  1. Combine every ingredient in the bowl.
    Unmixed ingredients for matcha chocolate bars in a stainless steel bowl, showing the dry matcha flour mixture, grated butter, and chopped dark chocolate.
  2. Mix using your hands until you make a hard ball. This dough is very dry, so use the fingers and squish the butter to create a ball.
    A stainless steel mixing bowl containing a fully mixed, round ball of green matcha dough resting on a wooden cutting board.
  3. Press the dough into the prepared baking pan into an even layer.
    Unbaked matcha chocolate dough in a prepared 8x8 baking pan, showing the green matcha base and dark chocolate pieces on top.
  4. Press the reserved 10 g dark chocolate into the top.
    Close-up of raw matcha chocolate dough pressed into a square baking pan lined with parchment paper and binder clips, ready for the oven.
  5. Bake for 25 minutes. You should see a nice golden coloration start on the sides.
    Unbaked matcha chocolate dough pressed evenly into a parchment-lined 8x8 baking pan, topped with extra dark chocolate chunks.
  6. Let cool completely on rack for 15 minutes, and cut into squares of your desired size. I cut them in 12 pieces (2 by 6 for bars or you can do 3 by 4 for rectangles).
    A person slicing a freshly baked square of matcha chocolate dessert into rectangular bars on a wooden cutting board.

The Serving

  1. Serve and enjoy your Matcha Chocolate Bars [抹茶チョコバー] with a nice cup of tea, coffee or milk!
    Sliced matcha chocolate bars with melted dark chocolate chunks stacked on a blue and white patterned plate against a wooden background.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 piece | Calories: 185 kcal (9%) | Carbohydrates: 16 g (5%) | Protein: 2 g (4%) | Fat: 13 g (20%) | Sodium: 36 mg (2%) | Fiber: 1 g (4%) | Sugar: 6 g (7%)

Elasdenis.com is written and produced for informational purposes only. While I do my best to provide nutritional information as a general guideline to our readers, I am not a certified nutritionists, and the values provided should be considered estimates. Factors such as brands purchased, natural variations in fresh ingredients, etc. will change the nutritional information in any recipe. Various online calculators also provide different results, depending on their sources. To obtain accurate nutritional information for a recipe, use your preferred nutrition calculator to determine nutritional information with the actual ingredients and quantities used.

My own adaption of

meimeibaking.com

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