For this month’s recipe I decided to bake something quick and simple that I found on the Yunomi website – matcha (green tea) pound cake. Matcha is one of my favourite flavours, and I think it will feature heavily in the recipes I try this year! This cake didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but I blame my rubbish electric oven for that. 😉
Matcha Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 100g unsalted butter
- 80g caster sugar (split into 60g and 20g)
- 2 eggs (whites and yolks separated)
- 100g self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 10g matcha powder
- 1 tbsp milk
Spot the deliberate mistake… yes, there should be two eggs in this picture!
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 C. In a bowl, beat the butter with an electric mixer.
When the butter is light and fluffy, add 60g of sugar and beat in 2 egg yolks.
In a separate bowl make meringue by beating 2 egg whites with an electric mixer and adding in 20g of sugar.
Stir the flour, baking powder and matcha powder into the egg and sugar mixture a little at a time.
Stir in the meringue a little at a time. Add in the milk.
Pour the mixture into a lined loaf tin.
Bake for 40 – 45 minutes.
My cake didn’t rise nearly enough, so I don’t know if it was my oven being useless, something I did wrong with the ingredients, or something else. This happens a lot with cakes I make though, so I am inclined to think it’s my oven.
Still, the colour was good, and it tastes pretty nice too!
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I’ll be back in March with a new recipe! If you have any suggestions, or perhaps you would like me to try one of your recipes from a book or website, please leave a comment below or get in touch! All the recipes I try on this blog have some connection to Japan and, because I don’t eat meat, they need to be vegetarian or pescetarian. I’m particularly interested in helping to promote Japanese recipe books, so do let me know if you have one I might like!
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