I made this cake last week for a Chinese New Year’s celebration party. It was an instant crowd-pleaser.
I was asked to share the recipe so here it is.
This recipe is adopted from Food52 by Kendra Vaculin.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups Mochiko (Sweet Rice Flour)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 5 tablespoons matcha powder
- 1 stick (4oz /110g or 1/2 cup) butter. melted and cooled to room temperature
- 1 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 can 12oz evaporated milk
- 1 can 13.5oz coconut milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- shredded coconut
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Line a 9×13 inch pan with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, mix together the dry ingredients (Mochiko, matcha powder and baking powder).
- In a separate bowl, beat the butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time to emulsify.
- Add coconut milk, evaporated milk and vanilla extract and mix to combine.
- Gently fold in the dry ingredients (from step 3) with a spatula until fully incorporated.
- Pour the batter into the pan and bake in the oven for 60 -70 minutes. The top and the edge will brown a little. Stick a toothpick into the center, when it is ready, it should come out clean.
- Remove the cake from the oven and allow it to cool slightly before lifting it up from the pan with the parchment paper and set aside.
- Invert the cake with a plate or cutting board, peel off the parchment paper and flip over.
- Sprinkle a generous amount of shredded coconut on top.
Note:
The cake is at its best when freshly baked. You can also store it in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Reheat the cake in a microwave for 20 to 30 second till it softens. Enjoy with a cup of matcha green tea.
Looks yummy and tasty 🙂
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Thanks Mistimaan 🙂
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Looks yummy! I love green tea but haven’t gotten into green tea desserts. Vic enjoys them, I keep trying them but I don’t think it’s my thing as a dessert.
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What’s your favorite dessert?
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Oh boy, this is a hard one because I like sweets. Eileen’s Cheesecake in NYC (she makes a sour cream one and it’s so soft), French pasteries, cannolli’s, tiramisu, and please don’t laugh – I love cheap Russell Stover’s chocolate from the drugstore, the pecan delights. Grew up on cheap chocolate and expensive chocolates are strange to me. I do love expensive toffees tough, Marie Belle and Vosges.
Is it ok if I link to your blog when I write about Seattle. I remember don’t post any pics of you. Going to mentioned we met up and link your blog. What’s the name of the waterfll you took us too. We are craving trees so badly. Someone needs to invent a teleporter so we can enjoy the best of both worlds, cities and woods.
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You are so funny. I love cheap sweets too, a good kitkat, especially when they have so many different flavors in Japan. Thank you for linking to my blog. The waterfall is Snoqualmie Falls (http://www.snoqualmiefalls.com/), Love the teleporter idea. We could use a world-class cultural scene like NYC 🙂
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We have green tea kitkats at the Chinese market, Vic loves them. Have no idea why since I don’t cook but I like to go to Asian markets all the time (once a week when I visit my parents). We loved the one in Seattle, it was huge and they had assorted Asian goodies. Ours are mostly Chinese. I don’t even eat most the stuff but I love looking at it. Weakness for Pocky sticks too.
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Happy New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy! Do you speak the same dialect? We are Toishan.
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Happy New Year Vic and Andrea! Gung Hay Fat Choy! I speak Mandarin which is Gong Xi Fa Cai 🙂
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Delicious looking…♥
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Thank you Anne-Christine!
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Missing matcha like crazy! Will have to try this recipe when I get my hands on matcha powder again.
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Is it easy to get oriental ingredients in France?
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You’ll have to go to specialty Asian stores, which are usually in the big cities (Paris, Lyon…). I’m in a medium-sized city, so the options are a bit more limited.
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Happy New Year! I’ve never tasted this type of cake, it looks wonderful!
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Happy New Year! I like the texture of this cake, slightly crunch and chewy. Do warm it till it softens, unless it is freshly made.
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Ok, thanks for the tip!
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This is such a fresh and innovative recipe… I lvoe matcha recipes! It looks yummy and I’m definitely gonna try this soon. Thank you so much for sharing ❤
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I hope you will like it. It is not too sweet or sugary.
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Yum, that looks like a great recipe to try out! Thank you for sharing 🙂
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Thank you Kristyn! Hope you will like it 🙂
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Oh my! 🙂 Looks very yummy
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Glad it was tasty. Happy Chinese New Year of the Dog.
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Happy year of the dog 🙂
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Oh my! Dreams came true with that cake,love moooochiiii!!! I will deffo try it at home. 😘
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Thank you Violeta. I hope you will like it 🙂
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