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Green Tea Pound Cake
Apr. 18th, 2010 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zarhooieFirst, the back-story: My best friend hates tea, and my best friend hates cake. Therefore, his wife decided that the best present for his birthday would be a tea-flavored cake. She told me about this, and I thought it was hilarious. Time passed, and her thoughts turned to other things, but the tea cake stayed stuck in the back of my mind.
Fast forward to a few days ago. My boyfriend decides he wants to go to the asian grocery store. I say ok. While we are there, we pick up some matcha, or ground powered green tea. There were two kinds: one which was in a little tin and one which was in a big bag. Jacob said that the bulk stuff was for baking, so I grabbed that. It was around $6 or so. Having procured the main ingredient, I set off to make the cake.
My initial thought was to use a boxed white cake mix and just add the matcha to that, but I decided against that because, hey, boxed cake mix is gross. I found out later that the matcha needs more sugar than the boxed cake mix provides to cut the bitterness of the tea. I had purchased some plain yoghurt earlier and wanted to use it up somehow, so I chose to go with a recipe which featured yoghurt. At the time, I was also working on an egg shortage, so that informed my decision as well.
I poked around on the internet for a while, and came upon this recipe. It looked promising, so that's what I went with! My modifications reproduced behind the cut.
( OH GOD IT IS A CUT GET IN THE CAR )
I served mine the morning after with butter, but you can do whipped cream or whatever. It makes a really good complement to a nice cuppa, and would work well for cultural gatherings (church potlucks or whatever). It is BRIGHT GREEN so totally appropriate for spring!
-Kat
Fast forward to a few days ago. My boyfriend decides he wants to go to the asian grocery store. I say ok. While we are there, we pick up some matcha, or ground powered green tea. There were two kinds: one which was in a little tin and one which was in a big bag. Jacob said that the bulk stuff was for baking, so I grabbed that. It was around $6 or so. Having procured the main ingredient, I set off to make the cake.
My initial thought was to use a boxed white cake mix and just add the matcha to that, but I decided against that because, hey, boxed cake mix is gross. I found out later that the matcha needs more sugar than the boxed cake mix provides to cut the bitterness of the tea. I had purchased some plain yoghurt earlier and wanted to use it up somehow, so I chose to go with a recipe which featured yoghurt. At the time, I was also working on an egg shortage, so that informed my decision as well.
I poked around on the internet for a while, and came upon this recipe. It looked promising, so that's what I went with! My modifications reproduced behind the cut.
( OH GOD IT IS A CUT GET IN THE CAR )
I served mine the morning after with butter, but you can do whipped cream or whatever. It makes a really good complement to a nice cuppa, and would work well for cultural gatherings (church potlucks or whatever). It is BRIGHT GREEN so totally appropriate for spring!
-Kat
