sunnuntai 30. tammikuuta 2011

抹茶アイス - Green tea ice cream

Easy. Tasty. Looks funny.

抹茶アイス - Green tea ice cream


- 1/2 l vanilla ice cream
- 1,5 tsp matcha powder

-Cut the ice cream into thin slices. Mix with matcha. Eat.

sunnuntai 23. tammikuuta 2011

抹茶ケーキ - Matcha keeki

When loved friends drop by one should pamper them with food - am I right?

Tonight we ate spring rolls with rice. I wasn't fast enough to take a picture of the rolls, but I managed to take a picture of the dessert cake. Since me and my friend talked about tea cakes I've been craving for matcha cake. On friday I finally got time to go and buy matcha - it's powdered green tea (awesome and bloody expensive = 300 €/kg).



This cake is not vegan, but it should be possible to make something similar without eggs. Anyways this turned out to be better than I hoped for. Delicious, I'd say. Here goes:

抹茶ケーキ


2 eggs
2 dl sugar
100 g lactose free margarin (melted, cooled)
2 dl water
3 dl all purpose flour
3 tsp matcha powder
1,5 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla sugar

-Set the oven to 175 Celcius. Grease and flour a relatively small cake mold. 
- Mix matcha, flour, baking powder and vanilla sugar.
- Beat the eggs and sugar. Add melted, cooled margarin and mix.
- Add about 1/3 of the water and 1/3 of the flour mix to the dough, stir and repeat until you've mixed all in.
 - Pour into the cake mold and bake for 30-40 minutes.
- Serve with tea or coffee and sophisticated (crappy) jokes.