Matcha cake from the rice cooker

A new recipe in our very populair 'rice cooker cake'-recipe series: Japanese matcha cake. Matcha, fine powder green tea, doesn't only make for delicious tea but can also be used to make all kinds of sweets (matcha-taste chocolate is also one of our favourites) and desserts. And this time, we we share a recipe to make your own matcha cake!

Delicious pieces of matcha cake

 Ingredients (makes a cake with approximately 19cm diameter, and 3 cm height):

• 125 gr flour
• 2 eggs
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 50 ml (coleseed) oil
• 100 ml milk
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1,5 tbsp of matcha powder 

The rest of the baking process is pretty much the same as all our cake recipes: mix all the ingredients together until the batter is smooth.
A tip for adding the matcha: add it little by little as the last step, so you can taste and adjust the amount of matcha powder if you think the taste is too strong (or too weak).

The cake batter mixed with matcha powder

Put the batter in the rice cooker, put it on cake-setting and let is bake for 30 minutes. After the rice cooker has finished, wait until the pan and the cake has cooled down. Then you can turn over the pan and with a little shake the cake will come out perfectly.

Finished matcha cake

Frozen Matcha Yoghurt

This is a great Japanese dessert, delicious for warm summer evenings. It's easy to prepare, but will need some time in de freezer, so plan ahead and start in the afternoon if you want to make it for dessert.

Ingredients (2p):

• 250 ml yoghurt
• 1,5 tbsp matcha powder
• 5 tbsp sugar

You can adjust the amount of matcha to your liking, and add a little more or less depending on how strong you want the matcha taste to be.

Preparation:

Add the 250 ml yoghurt and 1,5 tbsp of matcha powder in a bowl and mix together. Add the 5 tbsp sugar, and make sure everything is mixed together, using a hand-held whisker or mixer. When it is mixed, cover it with plastic, and put it in the freezer for approximately 3 hours.

The yoghurt mixed with matcha powder and sugar

After those three hours, remove it from the freezer, and whisk it together till it is creamy. Then, cover it up again and put it in the freeze for another hour.

After one hour, remove the frozen yoghurt from the freezer, and serve in two cups. Enjoy!

We filmed the preparation-process to make it even easier to prepare:

 

The frozen matcha yoghurt, ready to be served as dessert