The drink that broke the matcha internet. Pink, white, green, white. Four layers. Five minutes. One pouch.
If you've been on TikTok in the last eighteen months, you've seen this drink. A tall, slim glass. A bed of muddled strawberries glowing red at the bottom. A layer of cold oat milk above, in soft white. A pour of vivid green matcha through the middle. And a final, glossy crown of cold foam, white on green. Four bands of colour, perfectly stacked, the most photographed drink in matcha bars from Tokyo to Toronto.
The good news: it looks much harder to make than it is. Five minutes, four ingredients, one frother, one MYOM Barista pouch. The bad news: once you've made one, you will make it every weekend for the rest of summer. Sorry.
Where strawberry matcha came from
Matcha latte purists hate this drink. Strawberry matcha is, in the broader history of Japanese tea ceremony, an act of sacrilege: stone-ground tencha leaf whisked, sweetened, layered with fruit and milk, and treated as a fashion object. Which is exactly why it has worked.
The drink came out of the wave of matcha-first cafés that opened across New York, Los Angeles and London between 2022 and 2024. Koké in New York, Tombo in London, Cha Cha Matcha across the US. Their menus combined ceremonial-grade Japanese matcha with seasonal fruit purees, oat milk, and the layered presentation that turns a drink into a photograph. Strawberry matcha was the breakout: spring strawberries, vivid umami matcha, a cold creamy crown. Pink, white, green, white. The drink that opened the matcha category to a generation that had never used a chasen whisk in their life.
Why now in the UK? British strawberries hit their peak in late June and early July. Matcha bars are opening in London, Manchester, Brighton, Bristol. The cold foam piece is the missing fourth layer, and it's the layer that turns an okay home version into something genuinely indistinguishable from the £8 café drink.
“Four layers is a high bar. The reward is a drink that looks like a Wes Anderson film and tastes like spring.”
MYOM Strawberry Matcha Cold Foam Recipe
A four-layer build. Patience for the pour, but no special skill required. Use a tall, clear glass; the point is to see the layers.
Serves: 1. Time: 5 minutes.
Ingredients
- 3 ripe British strawberries (the riper the better, late June through July is peak season)
- 1 teaspoon of caster sugar
- 1 tall, clear, slim glass full of ice
- 200ml of chilled MYOM Barista Oat (icy-cold, below 6°C)
- 2g of ceremonial-grade matcha powder (about one heaped teaspoon)
- 50ml of warm (not hot) water for the matcha
Method
- Muddle the strawberries with the sugar in the bottom of the tall glass, using the back of a spoon or a muddler. You're looking for a rough, jammy paste, not a smooth puree. This is the pink layer.
- Fill the glass with ice on top of the strawberry layer.
- Slowly pour 100ml of chilled MYOM Barista Oat over the ice. The cold milk will settle above the strawberries to make the first white layer.
- Whisk the matcha with 50ml of warm water in a separate cup using a chasen (bamboo whisk), a milk frother, or a small whisk, until frothy and lump-free. Let it cool slightly.
- Pour the matcha very slowly over the back of a spoon, just above the milk layer. The matcha sits on top of the milk in a vivid green band. Don't stir.
- Froth the remaining 100ml of chilled MYOM Barista with a handheld frother for 20 to 30 seconds, until thick and glossy.
- Crown the drink with the cold foam, building a soft white layer on top of the green. Four layers: pink, white, green, white. Sit back. Photograph. Drink.
Why you'll love it
- It looks like art. Four bands of colour in a clear glass. The drink most likely to be the first thing you photograph this summer.
- Naturally sweet. Strawberries and the natural sweetness of MYOM oats do most of the work. A teaspoon of sugar is all you need.
- Functional, too. Matcha gives you slow-release caffeine and a stack of L-theanine. Strawberries bring vitamin C and antioxidants. MYOM Barista Oat brings calcium, B12 and D3. A drink that earns its keep.
Make it your own
Swap strawberries for raspberries in late summer, or blackberries in early autumn. The principle is the same: a ripe, sweet, muddleable berry at the base. Swap caster sugar for honey or maple syrup for a different sweetness profile. For a stronger matcha flavour, use 3g of matcha and 60ml of water.
If you can't find ceremonial-grade matcha (and the price is steep), culinary-grade matcha makes a perfectly drinkable version. The colour is slightly duller and the bitterness slightly higher, but the drink still works. For a richer version, swap half the cold foam topping for whipped coconut cream.
The offer. £8 off the MYOM Barista bundle this summer.
Loved this drink? The MYOM Barista Everyday Bundle is £8 off all summer. One bundle makes more than 30 cold foam drinks at home, less than the cost of three café iced lattes.
- Was £18.99. Now £10.99 with code MYOMCOLDFOAM.
- Free 1L glass bottle (worth £7.99).
- Free delivery.
- Valid until 31 July 2026.
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Keep reading
- Cold Foams. Beautifully. The Complete Guide to Cold Foam at Home. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/best-oat-milk-for-cold-foam
- Cold Foam Iced Long Black. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/cold-foam-iced-long-black
- Vanilla Cold Foam Iced Latte. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/vanilla-cold-foam-iced-latte
- Espresso Tonic with Cold Foam. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/espresso-tonic-cold-foam
- Pistachio Cold Brew with Cold Foam. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/pistachio-cold-brew-cold-foam
- Create the Perfect Foam Every Time with MYOM Barista Oat. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/create-the-perfect-foam-myom-barista-oat
- Oat Milk Without Dipotassium Phosphate. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/myom-oat-milk-without-dipotassium-phosphate
Ready to froth?
Pick up a MYOM Barista Everyday Bundle with code MYOMCOLDFOAM for £8 off all summer. Free glass bottle, free delivery, valid until 31 July 2026. With MYOM in the cupboard, cold foam at home tastes like the café down the road, only better.
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