Green Tea Cake

Birthday cake for my mom! I fashioned the green tea cake into a pumpkin shape to celebrate the season.

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 cup milk

½ tsp vanilla

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

3 Tbsp matcha powder

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

How to Make

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2. Mix the butter, eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla.

3. Then mix the all-purpose flour, matcha powder, and baking powder.

4. Pour batter into a prepared cake pan.

5. Bake for 1 hour and let cool before decorating.

How to Decorate

I made a cream cheese frosting for the outer pumpkin layer (orange) using the recipe from 

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cream-Cheese-Frosting-II/Detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Thumb&e11=cream%20cheese%20frosting&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1. 

To get an orange color, add 2 drops of red food coloring per 3 drops yellow food coloring. Keep on adding drops until you reach an orange shade you like.

For the pumpkin stem (green), I used an electric mixer and blended 180 g heavy whipping cream and 20 g sugar on high setting. I added about 10 drops of green food coloring. I placed a cylinder in the middle of the pumpkin so that the frosting was molded into a stem-like shape.