Green Tea Chiffon Cake

There are many different recipes online for green tea chiffon cake. Some are more complicated. I basically followed my vanilla chiffon cake which I know works well, and just replace some cake flour with green tea powder. This turns out great.

This is used to make two 6" x 2" round cakes, or one 9" layer, or 8" round cake. The St. Patrick's Day cake is a 8" round cake.

Ingredients:

Egg - 5 Large
Cake flour - 75g
Green tea powder - 12g
Oil - 40g
Milk - 40g
Sugar - 60g for egg white
Sugar - 30g for egg yolk

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. Separate eggs into egg yolk and egg whites.
3. Use fine mesh sieve to sift flour and green tea powder together.

4. In a mixing bowl, beat egg yolk and sugar lightly. Add oil and milk, and then sift in the cake flour and green tea powder mixture,  mix well.

5. In a clean mixing bowl, use electrical mixer to beat egg white and sugar at high speed to firm peak. Sugar for egg whites are added in 3 batches during the mixing process.

6. Pour 1/3 of egg white mixture into egg yolk batter. Gently fold with a spatula to mix them well. 

7. Pour the egg yolk batter into the egg white bowl in a thin stream. Gently fold the batter into the egg whites. Use a spatula to cut down vertically through the mixture. Move the spatula across the bottom of the bowl; bring it back up the other side, carrying some of the mixture from the bottom over the surface. Repeat this process, rotating the bowl, until the ingredients are combined.

8. Pour the cake batter to one 9" or two 6" round cake pans. The pan bottom should be greased, or lay some parchment paper so it is easy to remove the cake later.

9. Hold the cake pan and bang the bottom on the table a couple of times to release large air bubbles from the batter.
10. Bake in oven for about 40-50 minutes or until a chopstick can be inserted and come out clean and the top of it springs back when lightly touched.

11. Take out the cake pan, and cool off on cake rake upside down. After the cake is cooled, use knife to loose the sides, and the cake should be able to fall out easily.

12. Sift powdered sugar, green tea power, or cocoa powder on top for decoration, or use as layer.