These Hojicha cakes are soft and spongy with a hint of Hojicha fragrance. They're great to serve with a cup of Hojicha tea to share these yummy cakes with your family at home.
Author Ann Low
Prep Time 10 minutesmins
Cook Time 20 minutesmins
Total Time 30 minutesmins
Course Snack
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 11small cakes
Ingredients
3largeeggs
60gcaster sugar
120gcake flour/plain flour
1tspbaking powder
1tspbaking soda
1.5tbsphojicha powder
50mlfresh milk
30mlcorn oil
1tbsphoney
Instructions
Preheat oven at 150 degrees C. Grease small muffin pan with butter or cooking spray and set aside. Combine cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and Uji hojicha powder in a bowl and set aside.
Mix well fresh milk and corn oil together, then add honey and stir well again, set aside.
In a mixing bowl, whisk eggs and sugar at high speed till thick and fluffy, for about 5 minutes.
Sieve flour mixture into egg batter in 2 portions. Fold gently until combined with a rubber spatula.
Stir well the milk mixture again and then scoop some batter into it, mix well. Pour the milk mixture into the remaining batter and gently fold well with a rubber spatula.
Pour batter into the muffin pan to 90 percent full. Then bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes or skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.
Release the small cakes from muffin pan once it is out of the oven.