I need matcha to make green tea cupcakes. Does anyone know where I can some? I've never bought it before, is it a brand of green tea or just a type of green tea? I need to know what I'm looking for. Thank you!

I purchased mine at Whole Foods, in Washington. Any type of organic food store should carry it. Make sure you get the powder and not the tea and be prepared it's expensive. To save time I'd call the stores first to make sure they have it. Good luck.

Thank you!

I think its green tea ground into a fine powder. I searched on Google and Amazon.com and got a few of these sites as results. Hope that helps you out and good luck!

http://www.teavana.com/

http://www.matchasource.com

http://zenmatchatea.com/matcha/store

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_5_13?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=matcha+powder&sprefix=matcha+powder

DanaG21, thank you for mentioning that! As a newbie baker I used chai tea leaves in a cake I was making... it smelled great, but was the most horrid bitter tasting thing ever! We ended up chucking it in the trash. I wouldn't want anyone else to have that happen to them

I got mine at Whole foods.

Thank you for the links! They were very helpful. Im a little discouraged by the price hopefully I can afford it if I can find it. I don't believe we have whole foods here in so cal. I was going to look at henrys.

So neither trader joes nor henrys carys matcha. Does anyone know where I can find matcha in southern calfornia? (riverside area). I'm also looking for carob and yogurt chips which neither store carries :/

i got mine from ebay... while we are on the subject of matcha cupcakes which recipie are you guys using?

I bought green tea leaves and ground and sifted them myself. I used a green tea that I use for cups of tea.