Float Your Matcha Boat

The Floated Iced Strawberry Matcha Latte

I am not a fan of overly sweetened drinks. I am a fan of iced drinks though, and with the recent fan club matcha has formed I thought to do an iced strawberry matcha latte. Everyone enjoys them, but no one talks about the hidden costs of chemicals and pesticides in those strawberries for a moment of enjoyment. What are the costs? I don’t really want to find out or have my guests be test subjects, but I do know one conventional strawberry has residue of at least one pesticide and 8-10 different chemicals! Mine are done with organic strawberries so one doesn’t have to worry so much.

I roast the organic strawberries on an open flame and then simmer with not very much sugar to create a thick sauce. I don’t sweeten the matcha at anytime. I use a clean oat milk by Minor Figures, not sweetened. When I put one together to test I thought, good strawberry flavor, I could taste the matcha, but I thought just a touch more sweeet would merge the flavors together well. That’s when the float idea happened.

I was standing right next to my soft serve machine filled with Indonesian Bourbon Vanilla Soft Serve, and plopped on a dollop, and there is was. The fully realized product. Come visit and try one at my Palm Desert location, where Chef Tanya’s Kreamery lives with other cool tasty treats.

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