If you have never made a Matcha Cake Recipe before~ today is your lucky day!
Green Tea Cakes are a subtle yet powerful flavor that is so unique.
Paired with an equally delicate vegan whipped cream
This cake is going to have everyone begging for more!
Adding a teaspoon at a time of matcha powder to the divided up cake batter to achieve the Ombre affect!
Video tutorial shows the visual step by step better than I can explain it in words!
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Notes for Success:
Making a rectangle cake like this one will require a special set of 1/8 sheet pans
However buying special cake pans may not be an option in which case you can divide the batter similarly into 4- 6″ round cake pans instead
Adding too much Matcha Power in your cake recipe can quickly go from subtle and delicate to a muddy, chalky taste.
Rule of thumb for adding matcha powder to your cake recipes is around 3 teaspoons per 1½ cups of flour
Many people have bad luck with using cake flour in their recipes complaining of a “raw flour taste with a gummy texture”
While this has not been my experience All Purpose flour can be used instead but take out 2 Tablespoons from the weight listed below
Gluten Free flour has also been reported to work great in this recipe!
The egg replacer I am using is Bob’s Red Mill *not sponsored and I add it directly to the dry ingredients
Easily use your favorite dry blend egg replacer instead!
Vegan Whipped Cream Options have come a long way so be sure to use whatever one you like best
Or check out my homemade recipe!
Additionally this cake recipe converts nicely to a lower sugar option and monk fruit is my favorite sugar substitute!
However you can use whatever one you like best, but to maintain the best texture I prefer to use just half the amount of sugar substitute and keep the other half regular sugar
Click here for more about sugar free baking!
Yield: Serves 16 people
Matcha Cake Recipe
Prep Time
1 hour
Cook Time
20 minutes
Total Time
1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients
For the cake batter
- Vegan Butter 12 Tablespoons (170g)
- Granulated Sugar 1½ cups (300g)
- Cake Flour 2½ cups (300g) *see notes for success section
- Egg Replacer 2 teaspoons *see notes
- Baking powder 3 teaspoons
- Matcha Powder 6 teaspoons (14g)
- Salt ½ teaspoon (3g)
- Plant Milk 1½ cup (355ml)
- Apple Cider Vinegar 2 teaspoons (10ml)
- Vanilla Extract 2 teaspoons (10ml)
- 1 Recipe Vegan Whipped Cream
- OR 2 Pints of your favorite brand of vegan Whipping Cream
- You will need 4 cups total volume of whipped cream
Instructions
- Grease and parchment line 4- 1/8″ sheet pans
- Preheat the oven to 350°F
- Be sure your ingredients for the cake batter are at room temperature before beginning
- In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream the softened vegan butter with the granulated sugar until light and fluffy, this may take 3-5 minutes.
- Sift together all the dry ingredients, (the egg replacer I use can be added directly to the dry flour ingredients). *The matcha does not get added if you are doing the Ombre style layers. But if you just want the entire cake matcha add the powder now.
- Combine the milk with the vinegar and the vanilla extract – set aside to thicken.
- Add about 1/3 of the dry mix to the creaming mixture and mix just until it is incorporated
- Add half of the milk/vanilla mixture and mix just until incorporated
- Add another 1/3 of the dry ingredients then the rest of the milk and the last of the dry ingredients.
- Mix just until it is all incorporated and then pour ¼ of the batter into 1 of the prepared pans.
- Add 2 teaspoons of the Matcha powder to the remaining batter and mix well.
- Take out 1/3 of that remaining batter and spread it into another one of the cake pans.
- Add another 2 teaspoons Matcha powder to the remaining batter and then take out half of it and spread it into another cake pan.
- With the last of the cake batter add the last 2 teaspoons of matcha powder and mix well the spread into the last cake pan
- Bake in a preheated 350°f oven for approximately 20 minutes or until the layers are springy to the touch when you gently press the centers.
- Cool completely in the pans then remove each layer carefully, peel off the parchment paper and be sure the cakes are super cool, if not COLD before filling & icing.
- Prepare the whipping cream according to the recipe or as directed on the carton of SILK.
- Fill and ice the cake layers as shown in the video or as you prefer to decorate.
Notes
Matcha Cake that is iced with whipped cream must be kept in the refrigerator until serving and will stay fresh for up to 4 days wrapped loosely.
