Thursday, January 13, 2011

Matcha Madness # 2 - Matcha Chocolate L4yer Cake


Matcha –Chocolate Layer Cake
For the Matcha Sponge
Self Raising Flour 135 gms
Unsalted Butter 175 gms
Cocoa - 40 gms
Caster Sugar 125 gms
Light Brown Sugar - 50 gms
Large Eggs 3
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Method:
Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line a 20cm spring-form tin. Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl. Beat the butter and sugar on high for about 5 min until light and fluffy. Add one egg at a time and beat well. Fold in the sour cream & food colour.  Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture in 2 goes, gently folding and making sure not to knock off the air incorporated.
For the Chocolate Sponge
Self Raising Flour 88 gms
Unsalted Butter 88 gms
Caster Sugar 88 gms
Large Eggs 2
Baking Powder 1/2 tsp
Matcha Powder 1 tbsp
Sour Cream 2 tbsp
Few drops of green food color
Method:
Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl. Beat the butter and all the sugar on high for about 5 min until light and fluffy. Add one egg at a time and beat well. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture in 2 goes, gently folding and making sure not to knock off the air incorporated.
Assembly of the cake
Spread the Matcha sponge batter onto the greased tin. Spread the chocolate sponge batter on top of the Matcha layer. Using a skewer swirl the batter to create a marble effect, if desired. Bake for about 35-40 min or until skewer inserted comes out clean. Dust the top with cocoa powder.

2 comments:

Jamie said...

Oh delicious and beautiful! I still have a very hard time finding matcha tea powder and have dreamed of making just such a marble cake. Looks absolutely heavenly!

Debugcooking said...

Oh Jamie...Ill quickly post ya some...

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