Green Tea Nokcha Cake
Use our recipe to make a cake that is subtly sweet and flavored with green tea (nokcha, matcha). You can add more sugar or cream cheese frosting.
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- Serves: 10 persons
Ingredients
- 3eggs
- ½cup superfine sugar* (You can use less if you prefer for your cake not to be sweet.)
- ½cup vegetable oil
- ¾cup Greek-style yogurt (plain)
- 1teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½cups cake flour
- 1teaspoon baking powder
- 6teaspoons green tea powder (nok-cha karu, matcha)
- Optional: cream cheese frosting (consider the frosting if you plan to use little to no sugar)
Instructions
Step 1
Gather the ingredients. Preheat oven to 350 F.Step 2
In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, sugar, vanilla, and oil together until the resulting mixture is fluffy and light.Step 3
Gently stir Greek yogurt into the mixture. This yogurt has a range of health benefits, including high protein content and probiotics which are great for balancing gut bacteria. Choose the organic variety if it's available and in your budget range.Step 4
After stirring in the yogurt, get a separate bowl, and sift the flour, baking powder, and green tea powder together.Step 5
Next, gently fold the flour mixture into the wet sugar-yogurt mixture.Step 6
Then, pour the resulting cake batter into a greased cake pan, smoothing out the top until level.Step 7
Bake the cake for 35 minutes or until the top becomes golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean from the middle. If there's batter on the pick, keep the cake in the oven for a few more minutes, checking periodically until it's done.Step 8
If you're using cream cheese frosting instead of sugar, wait for the cake to cool down before icing it. *If you can't find superfine sugar, learn to do-it-yourself . ** NOTE: If you don't have cake flour and need to substitute all-purpose flour in this recipe, then you need to use LESS all-purpose flour. Use 1.5 cups minus 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour.