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I never thought of making a green tea cake until a couple of weeks ago.  A green tea powder from Korea is on sale in one of the local store’s catalogue, I quickly ordered a bottle.  The price is less than RM20.00 for a bottle of 50g green tea powder from Korea.  Beside making it into beverages, it can also be used to make cake.  I usually having green tea in drinks, this is the first time using it for my cake.

The recipe that I follow called for 3 Tbsp of green tea powder, however, I reduced it to 1 Tbsp, that gave us a milder green tea flavour just right for my kids.

This is the basic green tea chiffon cake recipe.  For green tea lover, you might want to have a stronger flavour by just adding green tea powder in the frosting or sieve some green tea powder on top of the cake as decoration, that will give the cake an extra green tea flavour.

Ingredient:

• 80 gm cake flour
• 6 egg yolks
• 30 gm caster sugar
• 35 gm oil
• a pinch of salt
• 3 Tbsp green tea powder (to adjust according to your preference)
• 120 ml hot water/milk
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

• 6 egg white
• 30 gm caster sugar
• 1/2 cream of tartar

Filling

• 1 cup of whipping cream
• some green tea powder, sieved (optional)
• 2 Tbsp caster sugar (optional)

Methods:

1. preheat oven to 170C. Grease and line a 8″ baking pan.
2. dissolve the green tea powder in the hot water or milk.  Sieve and let cool.
3. combine cake flour, baking powder and salt.  Sieve.
4. whisk egg yolks and sugar till dissolved.  Add in oil, green tea mixture follow by the cake flour mixture.  Mix well and set aside.
5. in another bowl.  Whisk egg white, caster sugar and cream of tartar till stiff peak (i.e. till the mixture does not drop when the bowl is held upside down).
6. fold the egg white mixture into the egg yolk batter.  Mix slowly and lightly by using an egg beater (you may use wooden spoon, but the egg beater work best for me).
7. Bake for 30 – 40 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean after inserted into the cake.

Method of preparing the filling/frosting:

1. whisk the whipping cream till soft peak. You could add in sugar or green tea powder for extra flavour.

I love this cake because of its moist and spongy texture.  Try it out, you will love it too.  Happy baking!