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This moist cake full of green tea antioxidants makes a good alternative as a tea time treat

Green tea cake

This green tea cake recipe can be made with powdered matcha or sencha green tea.

You can buy powdered green teas online and from healthfood shops –  or in a pinch you can powder your own by using the ‘pulse’ setting on a (very clean) coffee grinder or spice grinder. Matcha will give a smoother taste and a more vibrant colour than sencha.

This pound cake gets its moist texture from the addition of apple sauce and yoghurt and uses very little oil compared to most cakes. Makes about 12 slices.

Ingredients

• 240 g (8 oz) all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp sea salt
• 2 tsp matcha
• 80 g (2-3 oz) white caster sugar
• 60 ml (2 oz) grapeseed oil
• 60ml (2 oz) apple sauce
• 2 large eggs
• 60 ml (2 oz) Greek yoghurt
• half a vanilla pod (seeds only)

Method

1 Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F, gas mark 4) and  grease one 23cm/9in cake tin with grapeseed oil or butter.

2 In a large bowl, beat together sugar, oil, apple sauce, eggs and vanilla seeds until smooth.

3 Using a fine sieve sift together the all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt and green tea powder into the larger bowl, mixing as you

go in make sure it is all incorporated and the mixture is smooth.

4 Pour batter into the prepared cake tin.

5 Bake for 20 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

6 Cool on wire rack for 20 minutes before turning out of the pan.

Before serving dust with matcha powder and/or powdered sugar and serve with sliced, fresh strawberries or with fresh blueberries and a pot of  freshly brewed green tea.