Green Tea Frapuccino

After months of scrolling through endless photos of this green tea frapuccino

on Pinterest and Food Gawker, I decided that if the UK Starbucks wasn't going 

to follow suit and sell them, then I'd make my own. 

I know they're supposedly cream based, but that makes me gag. You could always swap the skimmed for full fat milk if you're not counting cals.

I always have Starbucks takeaway cups at home that I reuse when I need

to carry a drink with me, and I always think that cold summer drinks

 taste better through a straw.

So I did a bit of googling, and found the main ingredients: ice, green tea, milk and sweetener.

I highly recommend if you're going to make this yourself, get some matcha green tea powder. It's £10 for the size in the photo, but it makes loads and loads of drinks, so it's money well spent. It won't work if you use a teabag or flavoured green tea. 

I used skimmed milk, but to thicken it a little, you could use soya or almond milk (adjust the sweetener). 

And for the sweetener, I bought Starbucks vanilla syrup. You don't want anything with too strong a flavour to overpower the green tea, and vanilla is perfect for that, without being too sweet either.

Fill the blender with ice. I use about 10-15 cubes. Trust me, 90% of this is just ice.

Mix a half a teaspoon of green tea powder in a cup with a tiny bit of hot water, just enough to turn it into a liquid with no lumps or granules.  Add to the ice. Add 2 table spoons of syrup, and then milk - I added about a shotgalss full. Trust me, the less liquid, the more slushy it'll be, and less lumpy. 

And blend! 

If you can, give the ice a smash first to make it a little easier to blend, but not too small. 

We're not melting it. 

Let me know how it goes, and what other ingredients you'd add!