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.