Chocolate Cake With Green Tea Recipe
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You can't survive on one great chocolate recipe, you need 90! Thankfully, pastry chef and cookbook author Elisabeth Johansson has you covered. While there's no shortage of brownie and fudge recipes, the real treats are the ones you haven't made before. Go ahead, tell us you've made a green tea-spiked chocolate cake so rich and delicious it barely lasted an hour. Or maybe tell us that after it happens.
Chocolate Cake With Green Tea Recipe
Prep Time
20
minutes
Cook Time
25
minutes
Servings
20
pieces
Ingredients
- butter for the pan
- flour for the pan
- 1 1/4 sticks butter
- 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 6 ounces dark chocolate (70%)
- 3 large eggs
- 2/3 cup all purpose flour
- 2 pinches salt
- 1 tablespoon green tea powder (matcha powder)
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Butter a 9-inch square pan, preferably with a removable bottom, and dust it lightly with flour. You can also line it with parchment paper.
- In a standing mixer, whip the butter, vanilla sugar and sugar together until lightened and fluffy.
- Chop the chocolate and melt in the microwave.
- Beat the egg whites in a separate bowl.
- Stir the egg yolks into the butter mixture and then whisk in the chocolate.
- Fold in the flour, salt and egg whites.
- Pour the batter into the pan and bake on the lowest rack for about 25 minutes.
- Remove and let cool.
- When the cake is completely cool and firm, dust it with matcha powder and cut into pieces.
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