Green tea chiffon cake

Have a bottle of green tea powder sitting in the kitchen cardboard for a while, what better way to use it than on one of my cakes. ^_^

The result was really unexpectedly awesome,  loves the taste and the scent of green tea with each bite.


 

 

 

Ingredients

Egg yolk batter:

4 yolks

50g sugar
90g Cake flour

7g corn flour

10g Green Tea Powder

pinch of salt
1tsp baking powder
50g canola oil
100ml milk

 

Meringue:
 4 whites
 40g sugar
  

1. Preheat Oven at 170°C
2. Beat egg whites till foamy and add in sugar gradually.
3. Beat till stiff peak. Set aside.
4. In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks with sugar till white and fluffy.
5. With another separate bowl, mixed canola oil and milk together.
6. Add liquid mixture in #5 into egg yolk batter in #4. Mix well
7. Sieve flour, green tea powder, salt and baking powder into batter. Mix well.
8. Add 1/3 of the Meringue to the batter and mix well using low speed
9. Fold in the rest of the Meringue.
10. Pour in batter into a 8" tube pan (do not grease pan)
11. Bang pan on surface twice or more to release air bubble.
12. Baked for 40 to 45mins, or when a toothpick inserted in comes out clean.
13. Remove cake in pan from oven and bang pan on surface twice to prevent too much shrinkage.
14. Invert cake in pan to cool to prevent cake from deflating.
15. De-mold when cake is cool.