Benefits Of Green Tea Cake
Green Tea
If you’re on the lookout for a healthy dessert, this is it! Low-fat, low-carb, low-sodium, and with a sugar substitute, this cake also offers valuable antioxidants in the form of Japanese green tea. Green tea is known to ward away cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, high cholesterol levels, cariovascular disease, plus help boost your immune system.
Japanese Green Tea Cakes
If you like green tea, you’ll love this cake. If you don’t live near Chinatown, it may be hard to find powdered green tea. I found it at the Chinatown Market, here in Chicago, at 2121 South Archer Street. You could try powdering your own green tea.
Marbled Green Tea Cake
In a large bowl, combine eggs and sugar and mix until wellincorporated; add the flour mixture and stir to combine.Add the green tea batter to the plain batter with a rubber spatula; make 1 or 2 large swirls with the rubber spatula, being careful not to over-do it.
I liked them. Not sure why. Perhaps because they were shiny. Perhaps because they reminded me of something else. Not sure why. Not sure it mattered. I knew that after getting them, I would use them, again and again.
Green Tea And Vanilla Cake
The one kind of Chinese dessert I like are the little green tea buns with the adzuki paste in the middle (also the postmodern version, which is a donut with the same flavors). I don’t live near an Asian market, so no adzuki paste, but I wanted to try making an Americanized, vegan version of green tea cake. And what’s not to like about green cake? If you use straight whole wheat pastry flour instead of half and half it will come out a little denser, with a quickbread/scone-like texture.
Green Tea Chocolate Cake
Put butter in a bowl and stir well until soften. Add sugar in the bowl and mix well. Whisk eggs in another bowl. Mix eggs and butter mixture together. Shift flour and green tea powder together. Add flour in the egg and butter mixture and mix. Add chocolate chips in the bowl and mix together. Spread some batter and place baking wax paper inside of a medium loaf pan. Pour batter into the pan. Bake in preheated 360F oven for 35 minutes.
To make Green Tea Frosting: Sift together confectioners’ sugar and green tea powder. In a medium bowl, combine tea mixture with palm oil, cream cheese, vanilla and milk. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
Add the green tea batter to the plain batter with a rubber spatula. Make 1 or 2 large swirls with the rubber spatula, being careful not to over-do it. If you get too zealous, you won’t get a marbled effect. You’ll just get a green tea cake.
