Häagen-Dazs Japan’s Yuzu Green Tea Float — How to make the super-easy matcha summer dessert drink

The recipe will have you going from plain green tea ice cream to fancy, photogenic matcha candy in just minutes.

Before we go any further, let’s get one thing straight: you’re giving us a bullet matcha ice cream, and we will be happy. Here at Soranews24, we make no secret of our love of green tea, our love of desserts, and most importantly, our love of green tea desserts.

And yet, sometimes when we visit our local grocery store on a dessert run, Häagen-Dazs Green Tea Ice Cream can feel just a little disappointing. Häagen-Dazs practically brought this on itself, because the American ice cream brand with the European-sounding name makes excellent green tea ice cream, but also spoils us with all kinds of deluxe green tea desserts such as the Matcha Crumble, the Azuki Kuromitsu Japonais and the Matcha Creme Brulee . However, these are usually only available for a limited time. So when the only Häagen-Dazs style of matcha in stock is plain old green tea ice cream, we’re still happy, just not as happy as we are could be.

As recently posted by Häagen-Dazs Japan a recipe to turn a regular cup of green tea ice cream into a chic and photogenic dessert drink Their website got our attention, and that Yuzu green tea float had a spot on our candy-eating calendar.

Let’s start with a look at the ingredients. The Haagen-Dazs recipe is Size for making two glasseseither to share with a friend or to have a glass for each hand.

ingredients
● Green tea leaves (5 grams [0.2 ounces] or 1 tea bag)
● water (130ml [4.4 ounces])
● Yuzucha (60 grams [2.1 ounces])
● Ice
● soda water
● Häagen-Dazs Green Tea Ice Cream (2 mini cup containers)

A quick note: though yeah is the Japanese word for “tea”, Yuzucha is not tea. Instead, it’s a paste of yuzu (a type of citrus fruit) and honey, which is then dissolved in water to form a tea-like beverage. You can buy yuzucha in Japanese supermarkets and often in Korean ones as well.

Step 1: Brew the green tea with the water. Using a tea bag or tea leaves is fine, but if you’re using loose leaves you’ll also need a strainer as we don’t want leaves getting into the yuzu green tea float.

Step 2: Once the green tea has cooled, take an empty glass and add the yuzucha (30 grams for a glass).

Step 3: Put a layer of ice on the yuzucha.

Step 4: Pour in the green tea (65 milliliters per glass).

Step 5: Add soda water until you reach the level of fizz you like best.

Step 6: Add a scoop of green tea ice cream and you are ready t-

Oops. Our first attempt didn’t look very good as the ice cream scoops started to melt before we even had time to take a picture.

Luckily, as mentioned above, the Häagen-Dazs recipe calls for enough ingredients to make two glasses, so we were able to try again right away. For our second attempt, we made two adjustments. Instead of scooping the ice cream straight from the container into the mug, we scooped it into a tray first and placed it in the freezer for extra firmness so we didn’t waste time scooping it at room temperature.

Thanks to these two changes, our second Yuzu Green Tea Float…

… was a beautyand stayed long enough for us to capture photographic evidence.

Our taste tester, Aoi Kuroneko, was a little skeptical about combining the rich flavor of green tea ice cream with the tart citrus of yuzu, but found the resulting combination of the two to be great satisfyingly sweet and refreshingly lemony. Add the enticing aroma of yuzu and matcha rising with the bursting of each bubble of soda water and the beautiful color of the drink, and Aoi has no complaints.

It should be noted that while the recipe is from Häagen-Dazs, it should theoretically work with any brand of green tea ice cream. So next time your local store doesn’t have deluxe matcha frozen treats (if you don’t live in Japan, for example) but does have green tea ice cream, keep this recipe in mind. Your taste buds will thank you and you might even sleep better.

Source: Häagen-Dazs
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