Showing posts with label green tea cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green tea cake. Show all posts
Looks fugly (and yes, was criticised about having the JP flag above the US but I digress). Tasted amazing. Matcha cake with 70% cocoa dark chocolate icing.

Another one that was for the office. I had to get a cab to work that day because it was that heavy and that hot outside. Cake was for two farewells... one heading to each of the countries. Wasn't very pleased with this overall cause it looks so ugly.

Had a friend staying with me at the time so I really didn't have much time to think about this ... creation. Let's just say it's from outta space and leave it at that!


A special one from me this week: a triple layered oriental cake for my grandmother's 97th birthday!




I wasn't sure I was actually going to share this cake. It didn't quite come out as I had planned looks-wise. And to me, it is rather... inept. I had actually wanted to pipe little beads onto the cake and turn them into petal flowers - hard to explain but I saw it on pinterest and really liked it. But then I decided that it wouldn't look very nice with just green and i grabbed the spatula and started running it around the cake but not too much that the green would blend completely with the white. So I ended up with something like this!


This was a cake for the lovely Miss E's birthday and I was quite nervous bringing it into the office. Green Tea... what if they didn't like it? What if the flavour was too overpowering? What if it's a little too out there?!

Funnily enough (and I mean absolutely no disrespect by making this distinction) but those more inclined to Eastern flavours thought the green tea was too subtle whereas those not use to Green Tea thought the flavour was quite strong and could really be tasted! Personally, I would add more green tea into the cake batter next time. I am yet to find a green tea powder which bakes with a beautiful hue though... perhaps not quite possible. It is mostly a earthy, murky green.