Green tea muffins

(There is no durian in this recipe.)

Over Christmas break, I was in a muffin baking mood and probably baked 100+ of them - banana, banana with pecans, banana with durian filling, green tea, green tea with nuts, banana durian blend, no sugar banana with durian filling, and chocolate chip banana.

This was the first time I made the green tea muffins. My mom bought some matcha powder from the grocery store and I just had to try it.

Ingredients:
(Dry)

• 2 cups wheat flour. All-purpose flour works fine. I used the Korean wheat flour below.
  
  
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 teaspoons green tea matcha powder (or more if you like)
  

(Wet)

• 1 cup white sugar
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup milk 

Ingredients: (makes about 14 muffins)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line muffin pan with paper muffin liners. 
2. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and matcha powder, and sift.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the butter until light. Add in the sugar and eggs and mix again. Add the flour mixture and milk. Mix just enough until ingredients look mixed. Don't overmix!  
4. Scoop into muffin liners until about 2/3 full.
   
5. Bake in the preheated oven until toothpick comes out clean. It was about 15-16 minutes for me.
   

I added nuts to some of the muffins. I probably should have taken them out of the oven like 30 seconds earlier. Next time I'd like to try mixing in some sweet azuki beans. (I saw a green tea with red bean cake at a Chinese bakery.)