Give your desserts, confections and drinks the natural green colour and flavour of matcha with Valrhona Matcha Inspiration. Made from first class Japanese matcha and cocoa butter, it works like a white couverture on the pastry bench and goes straight into milk for a matcha latte behind the counter.

The flavour is vegetal with a gentle bitterness and a roasted umami note underneath, while the cocoa butter gives it the smooth texture of a couverture. Because it is ready to use, every batch and every cup looks and tastes the same, with no whisking and no preparation ritual. It comes as feves in a 3kg bag.

What Is Matcha Inspiration?

Matcha Inspiration is not classed as a chocolate because it contains no cocoa mass. It is made from sugar, cocoa butter (35%), green tea (8.1%) and sunflower lecithin, and the colour and flavour come from the matcha itself, with no added colouring or flavouring. The cocoa butter is why you can temper it in the same way as chocolate and use it for moulding, ganache and bars.

How to Use Matcha Inspiration

In pastry and confectionery, Valrhona recommend it for bars, moulding, mousses, and cream mixes and ganache. It is just as useful in drinks. For a hot matcha latte or iced matcha latte, use the feves directly with milk or a plant-based drink, or make a matcha sauce first and add it to each drink. Beyond the cup, it works in beverage sauces, Chantilly cream and whipped toppings, sprinkles, glass decorations and ice cream, affogato included.

Matcha Inspiration is not recommended with water, so a hot or iced matcha made with water alone is still a job for matcha powder.

Matcha Inspiration or Matcha Powder?

Choose Matcha Inspiration when speed and consistency matter. There is no preparation ritual and no special technique, so anyone on the team can make a rich, smooth and creamy drink, hot or cold, that tastes the same every time.

Choose our matcha green tea powder when you want a more intense matcha flavour, a drink made with water, or a pack that takes up less storage space. Powder also suits matcha enthusiasts and customers who enjoy watching their drink being whisked, though its stronger flavour can divide people who are new to matcha.

Storage and Shelf Life 

Valrhona give Matcha Inspiration ten months from manufacture, with at least six months remaining when it leaves their site. Keep it dry at 16-18°C and close the bag tightly after use. It may contain milk, soya, almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, pistachios and gluten (wheat).

Pairings and Ideas 

Matcha pairs beautifully with coconut, gianduja, strawberry and red bean paste. A few ideas to try:

• Hot or iced matcha lattes with dairy or plant milk
• Matcha Chantilly piped over a strawberry tart
• A matcha affogato poured over coconut ice cream
• Moulded matcha bonbons with a strawberry ganache
• Matcha and red bean mousse cups
• Matcha and gianduja layered bars
• A matcha rim or drizzle to decorate iced drinks