This matcha loaf cake recipe is flavoured with matcha green tea powder and made with ground almonds for a light, fluffy pound cake that's naturally green in colour.
This recipe was adapted from the July 2011 issue of Olive magazine. I used all-purpose instead of self-raising flour, so I compensated by adding baking powder and salt to the dry ingredients. I also added a full teaspoon of vanilla extract and specifically used ground almonds (the original recipe did not specify). I really enjoyed the sweet matcha tea flavour of these loaves, and would definitely make them again. I literally threw them together at the end of the day and loved the result!
📖 Recipe
Matcha tea cakes
Ingredients
- 155 grams (1¼ cup) bleached all-purpose flour
- 85 grams (¾ cup) ground almonds
- 15 mL (1 tablespoon) matcha green tea powder
- 7.5 mL (1 ½ teaspoon) baking powder
- 2.5 mL (½ teaspoon) Diamond Crystal fine kosher salt
- 175 grams (¾ cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 200 grams (1 cup) granulated sugar
- 3 large egg(s)
- 5 mL (1 teaspoon) pure vanilla extract
- 60 mL (¼ cup) whole milk (3.25 % fat)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven the 325°F. Grease 8 mini loaf pans (I used this pan from Amazon. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, ground almonds, matcha, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and the sugars for a few minutes, then add the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed with a spatula. Add the vanilla and beat the mixture again.
- Add the whisked dry ingredients alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
- Give the mixture a couple more stirs with the spatula to make sure everything is evenly incorporated, then divide the batter among the prepared loaf pans.
- Bake the cakes for about 20 or so minutes, and take them out of the oven when a cake tester inserted in the center of one of them comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack in the pan for 10 minutes before unmolding to cool completely.
Medeja says
The color looks so cute!
La Table De Nana says
McGill..I went there:) Just 1 semester though.. many many many moons ago..
I have Matcha powder..Thank you.
Baking IS therapy:)
Good luck..with anything you chose..It usually works out..the career area:)
Janice Lawandi says
Thanks! I hope so 😉