Recipe: Yummy Green Tea Chiffon Cake

Green Tea Chiffon Cake. Note: This article deals with the fundamental techniques of making chiffon cakes, tapping into the nitty-gritty and cover all the possible problem that may face during the actual baking. I use green tea chiffon cake as an example to illustrate the whole process, BUT every step applies to ALL chiffon cakes. Watch How to Make Matcha Green Tea Chiffon Cake.

If you are new to chiffon cake, it is a very light sponge cake made with vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, flour, and whatever the flavor you want to add. You beat the egg whites and fold. This is an adaptation of a chiffon cake recipe from the mother of Yuri Asano, my co-founder of Harvest Time in Harlem. You can have Green Tea Chiffon Cake using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Green Tea Chiffon Cake

1. It's 75 grams of Cake flour.
2. Prepare 10 grams of Matcha.
3. It's 80 grams of Sugar.
4. Prepare 3 of Egg yolk, large.
5. It's 3 of Egg white, large.
6. It's 60 ml of Water.
7. You need 40 ml of Vegetable oil.

It has since become an easy favorite of mine for entertaining, especially after a large meal. Don't skimp on the quality of green tea powder, as the better ones lend a gorgeous color and fragrance to this cake. Dissolve green tea powder in hot water (or hot milk). Combine cake flour, baking powder and salt well.

Green Tea Chiffon Cake instructions

1. Mix the cake flour and green tea powder together. Preheat the oven to 180℃..
2. Put egg whites in bowl and whip with an egg beater until stiff, add sugar a little at a time while whipping, until the meringue turns shiny and stiff peaks form..
3. In a separate bowl, add the egg yolks, vegetable oil, and water, and blend with a hand mixer without forming bubbles. Add the dry ingredients and mix on low speed until it becomes glutinous..
4. Add 1 dollop of meringue from Step 2 into the cake mixture from Step 3 and blend together with a mixer..
5. Add the mixture from Step 4 to remaining meringue, and fold together until the white streaks disappear..
6. Pour the mixture into a cake mold and bake for 30 minutes at 180℃. When it's ready, turn it upside down and let it cool. Remove from the mold after it thoroughly cools to room temperature..
7. I tried adding large dainagon adzuki beans to the mix..

Mix green tea powder in hot water/hot milk well. Add vegetable oil, green tea mixture, and sift in cake flour mixture in. Chiffon cake is similar to Japanese sponge cake or the popular angel food cake. The secret to chiffon cakes is vigorously beating the eggs for a long period of time, which creates a meringue. Reduce the speed to low and slowly add green tea and oil in a slow and steady stream on the side of the bowl.