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Trader Joe's Matcha Banana Pudding Affogato
An affogato is the laziest dessert in existence and I mean that as the highest compliment. Scoop of ice cream. Hot liquid poured over it. Done. Restaurants charge $14 for this because they put it in a nice cup and someone carried it to your table. You're making it in your kitchen in 3 minutes for about $2 and it tastes exactly the same. Hot matcha over TJ's banana pudding ice cream creates this warm-cold, bitter-sweet, green-yellow situation where the ice cream starts melting around the edges and the matcha pools around it and the vanilla wafer pieces from the ice cream get slightly soggy and turn into a soft cookie layer at the bottom. The salted caramel swirl in the ice cream meets the matcha and becomes something entirely new that neither ingredient could be alone. This took me 3 minutes to make and I sat there eating it for 20 minutes because I kept finding new flavor combinations in every spoonful. That math is insane.
Ingredients
- 2 scoops Trader Joe's Banana Pudding Flavored Ice Cream
- 2 packets Trader Joe's Matcha Green Tea (single-serve)
- 6 oz hot water (not boiling, about 175 degrees)
Instructions
- 1
Make the matcha
Heat water to about 175 degrees. If you don't have a thermometer, boil water and let it sit for 2 minutes. Pour 6 oz into a mug or measuring cup. Add both matcha packets and whisk vigorously until dissolved and slightly frothy. You want it smooth with no clumps floating around.
- 2
Scoop and pour
2 scoops of banana pudding ice cream in a small bowl or wide cup. Pour the hot matcha directly over it. Watch the edges melt. Watch the green pool around the yellow. This is happening in real time and it's beautiful and you did almost nothing to make it happen. Art.
- 3
Eat immediately
Grab a spoon. Eat the ice cream where it's still frozen in the center. Drink the melted matcha-cream liquid from the edges. Get some of the soggy vanilla wafer pieces from the bottom. The temperature contrast and texture variation is the entire point. This is a 3-minute dessert that has no business being this good.
Baker's Notes
- Don't use boiling water for the matcha. Boiling water makes matcha taste bitter and astringent. 175 degrees is the sweet spot. If your matcha tastes like lawn clippings, your water was too hot.
- Use the pure matcha packets here, not the latte mix. The latte mix is already sweetened and the ice cream is already sweet. Pure matcha provides the bitterness that creates the contrast. Without that contrast, it's just sweet on sweet and you lose the whole point of an affogato.
- This also works with TJ's vanilla ice cream or green tea mochi ice cream if the banana pudding is sold out. But the banana pudding version is the best because the banana-matcha combo is genuinely elite.
Nutrition
Calories
280
Fat
12g
Carbs
38g
Protein
5g
Sugar
28g
Serving
1 affogato
Notes
FAQ
Why matcha instead of espresso?
Can I make this with the Jeju matcha latte packets?
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