Name: Devil’s Food Cake with Matcha Frosting
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 650 g (1 lb 7 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar; 2 tbsp matcha powder; 2 eggs; 125 ml 4 fl oz) vegetable oil; 3 tbsp milk; 250 ml 9 fl oz) milk; 250 ml 9 fl oz) boiling water; 350 g 12 oz) plain flour; 75 g (2½ oz) cocoa powder; 350 g 12 oz) caster sugar; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 2 tsp vanilla extract; 325 g (11½ oz) salted butter, at room temperature; 1 tsp salt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 25

Appears in

My Asian Kitchen

By Jennifer Joyce

Published 2018

About

Japanese matcha powder is a wonder to mix into frostings, ice cream or cream for its Shrek-like colour and astringent taste. Here it pairs beautifully with chocolate for a showstopper dessert. I’ve cooked many chocolate cakes in my lifetime, but this one is the ultimate. My sister-in-law Amy divulged her family recipe to me and the cake has a springy moist texture and a pure cocoa flavour, but is not too rich.