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I fixed the cake! (improved maccha cake recipe)

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:51:14 GMT

So for this recipe, I have fixed it! If making the maccha variety:

replace the apple sauce with coconut cream
replace the olive oil with sunflower seed oil

And it comes out much more tea-like :D

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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:54:42 GMT

Sooo the guys I usually order my tea from had a clearance sale recently, so I ordered 100g organic sencha (煎茶) and 100g ryokucha (緑茶). I'll mostly use the ryokucha to make cakes, and the sencha will replace my usual fukamushi sencha (which is a particularly delicate flavour, since the leaves are steamed for longer during production) for my ~3L daily green tea intake.

Since I buy tea from Aya every month or two, they've taken to sending me small gifts with most orders. Usually it's just a sample of a different type of tea, but this time they sent me an adorable teatowel :D

All you small specialty shops out there: this is how you keep customers! ^_^

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Microwave Maccha (or Mocha!) Cake

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:52:49 GMT

First off, this microwave chocolate cake is incredible, with my simplest variation being to use wholemeal flour, rum instead of vanilla essence, and I tend to crumble a block of dark chocolate rather than buying overpriced chocolate chips.

I have, however, two more drastic variations to share with the world. Both are caffeinated, both are full of AWESOME.

( Microwave Maccha (or Mocha) Cake )

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