Matcha Cake – Omnivore’s Cookbook

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A matcha cake recipe that creates feathery gentle and moist cake, with an earthy matcha taste balanced with strawberries and whipped cream that aren’t too candy. The cake shops nicely, could be ready forward, and holds up nicely throughout transportation, making it good on your subsequent vacation gathering. {Vegetarian}

Matcha cake with strawberries

Now could be the time of yr for cozy household gatherings, considerable feasts, and pleasant treats. This yr, why not add a singular twist to your vacation dessert unfold with a luscious Matcha Cake? For Christmas, matcha’s pure inexperienced shade is ideal for evoking the colours of holly, Christmas bushes, and wreaths. Pair it with creamy white frosting and ruby-red strawberries for a holiday-ready dessert.

Why this recipe

  • A straightforward cake recipe that creates a brilliant gentle and moist cake base like a Japanese bakery. 
  • A balanced style with delicate matcha taste, juicy fruit, and whipped cream that’s not too candy. 
  • A stabilized whipped cream utilizing cream cheese for an enhanced style.
  • Create a festive look with a lovely strawberry show, with out utilizing acetate cake collars.
  • The cake could be made forward of time and it holds up nicely throughout transportation.
Japanese matcha cake close up

Matcha cake components

Elements for the cake

  • Entire milk
  • Unsalted butter
  • Vanila
  • Sea salt
  • Cake flour: cake flour creates a really moist cake. If utilizing all-purpose flour, the cake will come out a lot denser and dryer. When you use all objective flour, I like to recommend creating the cake syrup from my strawberry cake recipe and brushing it onto the cake for a greater texture.
  • Matcha powder: see my suggestion for matcha powder beneath
  • Eggs (yolks and whites separated)
  • Cream of tartar or white vinegar: it acts as a stabilizer for the cake 
  • Caster sugar (or common sugar): a effective white sugar is essential for a light-weight and easy cake texture. I extremely suggest caster sugar, however you too can use common granulated sugar so long as the grains will not be very giant. 
Ingredients for cake batter
Japanese matcha cake slice served on a plate close up

Select an excellent matcha powder

Matcha is a key ingredient on this recipe. Though most bakers would use culinary matcha powder for muffins, I like to recommend utilizing a nicer matcha powder. Not solely does it make your cake style higher, greater grade matcha powder often has a way more vibrant shade to make your cake look stunning as nicely.

I drink a cup of matcha each morning, and have gone via matcha from many manufacturers. A few of my favourite matcha powders are from Ocha & Co. Take a look at their Single Cultivar Organic Matcha for the premium high quality and Kyoto Uji Matcha for a extra reasonably priced but nonetheless prime quality tea.

Whipped cream components

I used three components in my whipped cream:

  • Cream cheese
  • Confectioners sugar
  • Heavy whipping cream

The cream cheese works as a stabilizer, making the whipped cream a bit extra strong so it holds collectively higher. It additionally provides a refined tangy style that I get pleasure from.

Tools you want

This recipe doesn’t require many particular tools and also you in all probability have already got most of those in your kitchen.

  • Quarter sheet pan
  • Off set spatula
  • Stand mixer or a hand mixer
  • Piping bag – I used an Ateco 16” pastry bag, however you should use a ziplock bag as nicely.
  • Piping tip – I used Wilton #32 Piping Tip, however you too can select to skip including frosting to the cake.

Learn how to make matcha cake

Make the cake

Begin by melting the butter in the entire milk, then add vanilla and salt. Sift the flour and matcha powder into the liquid, and blend nicely. Then add the egg yolk and blend once more.

Sift the flour into wet ingredients
Add the egg yolks

Add the egg whites and cream of tartar to your mixer bowl. Whip till frothy, then add the sugar whereas whipping, till medium peaks type.

What medium peaks looks like

Add 1/4 of the crushed whites to the yolk combination, fold till easy. Pour the combination again into the egg whites. Fold every little thing collectively till simply easy. Don’t overmix. Pour the batter into the lined sheet pan. 

Mixing beaten egg white into the cake batter
Pouring the cake batter onto a baking sheet

Bake at 325°F (160°C) for 15 to twenty minutes, switch to a wire rack to chill utterly. Then divide the cake into two even items and trim off the perimeters.

Transfer the baked matcha cake onto a cooling rack
Trim off the edges of matcha cake

Put together the whipped cream

Combine the sugar with the cream cheese in your mixing bowl. Then add whipping cream and beat till agency peaks type. 

Mix sugar into cream cheese
How does firm peaks of whipped cream look

Assemble and beautify the cake

Add a skinny layer of whipped cream onto the underside layer of the cake. Create the strawberry wall by lining up the halved strawberries alongside the perimeters of the cake.

Decorating matcha cake with whipped cream
Decorating matcha cake with strawberries

Fill the middle of the cake with extra strawberry slices. Replenish the middle of the cake with extra whipped cream.

Decorating matcha cake by filling with strawberries
Fill the cake with whipped cream

Place the highest layer of the cake in alignment with the underside layer. Add one other layer of whipped cream on high, then add frosting if desired. 

Adding the top cake layer
Frosting the matcha cake

And that’s it. Now you might have a really festive wanting cake that tastes like those you get from a Japanese bakery.

Homemade matcha cake on a cutting board

Retailer and transportation

This matcha cake is sort of delicate in texture, however it shops splendidly within the fridge and transports nicely. When the cake is simply made, it will likely be a bit arduous to slice it and preserve the slices intact. However when you retailer the cake within the fridge to chill, the whipped cream will stabilize, making the cake a lot simpler to chop. 

Whether or not you select to refrigerate the cake or not, you possibly can transport the cake to a unique location with out worrying about it falling aside (we’ve examined each methods). 

I’ve tried storing the cake for 2 days within the fridge in a sealed container, and the cake nonetheless tasted nice. 

Japanese matcha cake slice served on a plate

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A matcha cake recipe that creates feathery light and moist cake, with an earthy matcha flavor balanced with strawberries and whipped cream that are not too sweet. The cake stores well, can be prepared ahead, and holds up well during transportation, making it perfect for your next holiday gathering. {Vegetarian}

Matcha Cake