Green Tea Chiffon Cake

Nice jade colour and green tea flavour with the use of the green tea powder bought from Phoon Huat. As I mentioned in my earlier post, this powder not exactly the real green tea extract but I still like the taste :P Very moist and light texture, like eating a piece of cotton :D

Ingredient

• 95gm egg yolks
• 25gm sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 80gm corn oil
• 50gm fresh milk
• 30gm water
• 100gm Top Flour
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 15gm Green Tea Powder
• 240gm egg whites
• 100gm sugar
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar

Method

1. Beat yolks with sugar & salt until sugar is well dissolves.
2. Add in oil, fresh milk and water and mix until well combine.
3. Sift in flour, baking powder and green tea powder until a smooth batter is formed.
4. In a clean dry bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar until soft foam. Beat in sugar gradually until stiff peak formed.
5. Spoon 1/3 egg white mixture into yolk mixture and mix well. Pour batter into the balanced egg whites and fold till combine.
6. Pour batter into a 9" tube pan and bake in preheated oven at 180 deg cel for 45mins. Remove from oven and cool completely with pan overturned.

Recipe adapted from Fion Lim from Munch Ministry