Yield: 8" Square Cake
Ingredients
4 Eggs
100g Sugar
30g Honey
6g Green tea powder (matcha powder)
100g Cake flour
30g Milk
1tsp Vanilla extract or rum
Instructions
Mix cake flour and green tea powder and sift flour ingredients 3 times.
Let stand eggs and milk at room temperature before using for about 30min.
Separate the eggs.
In a bowl, add and beat the egg yolks, honey, vanilla extract and sugar until pale yellow.
Beat the egg whites with sugar until soft peak.
Fold in egg yolk mixture to meringue.
Add sifted flour and green tea powder and gently fold.
Add milk at a time and gently fold.
Pour the batter into castella mold lined with parchment paper and remove the bubbles using a chopstick.
Bake in the preheated oven at 160C for 40min.
Remove from the oven, flip the castella onto teflon sheet or oiled baking paper and cool completely. Cover with plastic wrap and leave for a day for more moist and delicious cake.
Adapted from: Honeykki
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