Green Tea Layer Cake
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
-
Cake
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 teaspoons green tea powder (matcha)
- 1 1⁄4 cups white sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup adzuki beans, soaked overnight, boiled until tender, then cooled and patted dry (optional)
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Frosting
- 1 1⁄4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 teaspoons green tea powder (matcha)
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons milk
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F Grease and flour 2 9" round pans. Sift together the all-purpose flour, cake flour, baking soda, salt, and green tea powder; set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat together sugar, oil, and eggs until smooth. Stir in 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the yogurt, starting and ending with flour, mixing just until incorporated. Fold in optional adzuki beans, if using. Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool on wire rack for 30 minutes before turning out of the pans.
- Sift together confectioners' sugar and green tea powder. In a medium bowl, combine tea mixture with butter, cream cheese, vanilla and milk. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Assemble cakes as you would any layer cake. Dust with green tea powder for garnish if desired.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
DrGaellon
New Rochelle, 0
I'm a 48 y/o gay Jewish man in the suburbs immediately north of New York City. I'm a general internist, practicing and teaching at a medical college north of NYC. I also earned a Masters in Public Health degree in 2013.
After a Walt Disney World trip in Dec 2006 where I had to rent an electric scooter because I couldn't manage the walking, I decided to have gastric bypass surgery, which was done Feb 28, 2007. I lost 160 lbs (though I've gained back about 60 of that since). I can't eat as much as I used to, so I want every bite to be extra good!