This Matcha Pound Cake has a light soft texture with a hint of matcha flavour and some red bean paste filling in between. The sweetness of the cake is just right to my liking. Since I have a few packets of matcha powder bought from Japan and as I have bought the red bean paste from Daiso the other day, so I decided to bake this cake. To my surprise, the red bean isn’t too sweet and it’s a perfect match with this matcha pound cake. The cake matures and tastes better the next day. The recipe was adapted from the cookbook, Okashi with some adjustments. The recipe calls for the same amount of butter, sugar, flour and eggs but I’ve reduced the icing sugar and used large eggs instead.

Great to serve this Matcha pound cake with a cup of matcha tea 🙂

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Matcha Pound Cake

This Matcha Pound Cake has a light soft texture with a hint of matcha flavour and some red bean paste filling in between.

Author Ann Low

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 40

Total Time 55

Servings servings

Ingredients

150 g cake flour or plain flour
1 tbsp matcha powder
1/4 tsp baking powder
150 g unsalted butter - soft to touch
130 g icing sugar - sifted
3 large eggs - lightly beaten
some red bean paste - as filling

Instructions

Preheat oven to 170 deg C. Line a 23 x 13cm loaf pan with parchment paper. Sift flour, baking powder and matcha powder together and set aside.
Beat butter and icing sugar together with a handheld electric mixer till light and fluffy, takes about 8 minutes. Gradually add eggs and beat well.
Sift in flour mixture the second time into egg mixture in 2 portions and fold through completely with a rubber spatula.
Pour half of the batter into prepared loaf pan and spread some red bean paste over it. Then top up with the remaining batter and smooth evenly with a rubber spatula.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes or a skewer into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Remove the cake in loaf pan after baked, then cool the cake completely on wire rack. Lastly dust some matcha powder over the cake before slicing.