Matcha cake recipe: Organic matcha and black sesame marble cake

The combination of matcha tea and black sesame in a surprising, exotic marbled cake that is as moist as it is easy to realise! Here is the recipe for this matcha cake.

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The idea behind this organic cake was to bring Asian flavours to a rather Western cake: the marble cake. It's always interesting to combine several flavours in a cake, and what's even nicer with marble cakes is creating a surprise when you cut into them.

All the more so when you discover now a succession of green and black waves of matcha and black sesame. Two ingredients that go together perfectly.

This matcha cake recipe is for a cake mould measuring approximately 25 cm.

Matcha cake ingredients

• 130g of soft organic butter
• 225g organic blond cane sugar
• 2 organic whole eggs
• 2 generous pinches of fleur de sel
• 190g organic whole liquid cream
• 205g of organic T55 flour
• 4g organic baking powder
• 8g of organic culinary matcha
• 25g organic black sesame paste (easily found in organic or Asian grocery stores)

Preparation of matcha cake

Using a whisk, mix the softened butter (very soft) with the sugar and fleur de sel. Add the eggs, then the liquid cream and finally the flour and baking powder. The result is a rather thick but airy cake batter.

Divide the dough into two parts and add 7g of matcha tea to one and 25g of sesame paste to the other.

Butter and flour the cake mould.

Using two piping bags, pipe layers of matcha dough followed by sesame dough until all the mixture is used up. If you don't have a piping bag, you can use a spoon, making sure to pipe even layers.

The softness of this marble cake is partly due to baking it at a low temperature: 140°C for one hour, no more. After 30 minutes, run a knife blade lengthwise through the cake: this will allow for better development and a more attractive marbling effect.

Once out of the oven, leave to cool for about 20 minutes before removing from the tin.

It keeps perfectly for several days at room temperature, wrapped in cling film and/or placed in an airtight container.

In short, it's a super cake that's extremely moist and easy to realise, as surprising visually as it is to the taste.

Good luck!



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