Matcha Cake Recipe – Texanerin Baking

24 de April de 2026

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This matcha cake with whipped cream cheese frosting has a splendidly fluffy texture and plenty of matcha taste. It’s a naturally inexperienced dessert for Christmas or St. Patrick’s Day and will be made with all-purpose or gluten-free flour.

I tailored this matcha cake recipe from King Arthur Flour.

I first used it on this Christmas Tree Cake recipe that I posted lately. That one is orange-flavored and my new go-to cake!

For right now’s recipe, I eliminated all of the orange taste, added 2 tablespoons of matcha and lowered the flour by 2 tablespoons. I had learn that matcha absorbs extra water and fewer fats, so I additionally lowered the oil by 4 teaspoons.

One time, I added extra water, however it was pointless.

one slice of layered matcha cake with whipped cream frosting

I additionally lowered the sugar a bit. It’s nonetheless loads candy, so no person will miss it. In the event you favor a matcha deal with with none added sugar, try my Matcha Protein Shake.

As an alternative of my ordinary More healthy Cream Cheese Frosting recipe, I used whipped cream cheese frosting. It’s so mild however nonetheless has that cream cheese frosting style. It suits this cake completely!

Components

Flour – if you happen to’re not gluten-free, you should use all-purpose flour or white complete wheat flour (not common complete wheat flour!). In any other case, use King Arthur Flour Gluten-free Measure for Measure Flour.
Matcha – I used ceremonial grade matcha. Masses extra on this under!
Baking powder + salt – you need to use baking powder and never baking soda. They’re not interchangeable.
Eggs – since this recipe requires 4 eggs, it’s too many to sub with an egg replacer. You additionally must beat the eggs with the sugar, which makes for an airier cake, and that’s not one thing you are able to do with egg replacers.
Granulated sugar – I really like utilizing coconut sugar, however I believe the flavour would conflict with the matcha and make an extremely ugly colour.
Vanilla extract
Milk – you should use no matter sort you’d like. If you wish to use canned coconut milk, then undoubtedly water it down till it’s as skinny as common milk. There’ll in all probability be some coconut taste in your cake. I exploit unsweetened cashew milk, and it labored nice.
Oil – you want an oil that’s liquid at room temperature, like vegetable oil or canola. I often keep away from these oils, however can’t think about olive oil can be very tasty with matcha.
Butter – must you wish to make this cake base dairy-free (the frosting is just not dairy-free), then you should use extra oil as an alternative of butter. So that you’d use 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon of oil as an alternative of the quantity of butter and oil that known as for.

ingredients needed to make matcha cake

For the frosting:

Granulated sugar
Cream cheese
Heavy cream
Vanilla + salt

ingredients needed to make whipped cream cheese frosting

How you can make it

To make this matcha cake, it takes a couple of minutes greater than making a one-bowl cake recipe. However it’s actually price the additional effort!

First, combine collectively the dry elements. In one other bowl, you beat the eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract till they’re thickened and are mild gold in colour – about 2 minutes.

I attempted to skip this step as soon as as a result of I prefer to dump every little thing in a bowl, stir with an enormous spoon, and be finished with it.

The cake was undoubtedly not as ethereal. So that you’ll actually wish to observe the directions!

Fold the dry elements into the moist.

How to make matcha cake grid photos showing how to mix together the dry ingredients. In another bowl, beating the eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract until it is light gold in color, then folding dry ingredients into wet ingredients until combined into a green matcha batter

Warmth the milk simply till it’s about to simmer. Take away the pan from the warmth and add the butter and oil.

Scalding the milk and beating the sugar and eggs collectively is annoying, I do know, however price the additional 3 minutes of effort.

Scalding milk kills the whey protein that weakens gluten and prevents yeast dough and muffins from rising correctly.

So I assumed – if I’m making a gluten-free cake and utilizing cashew milk within the batter, then there’s no gluten and whey protein. Then maybe I may skip this step?!

I skipped that step, and the cake was undoubtedly not as ethereal. There was an enormous distinction. I’m unsure why, although.

Now pour the batter into the ready pan. It might need numerous little bubbles.

four process photos in a grid showing scalding milk and beating the sugar and eggs together, then mixing into the matcha cake batter, which is avocado green

Whereas the cake is baking, put together the whipped cream cheese frosting.

It’s tremendous easy. You simply beat every little thing collectively, aside from the heavy cream, in a bowl, and you then beat within the heavy cream. Performed!

4 process photos illustrating how to make whipped cream frosting by beating all ingredients except the heavy cream in a bowl, and then beating in the heavy cream to make a smooth white frosting

That is what the cake seems like as soon as baked. It’s not probably the most enticing, however you’ll be masking all of it up with frosting. So don’t fear!

By the way in which, the strains on the cake are from the parchment paper that was on the underside of the pan. My photographer lower out a circle by folding the parchment paper a number of occasions, like this.

I do issues extra shortly and messier and simply hint across the pan instantly onto the parchment paper with a pen!

two circular green matcha cakes on cooling racks with parchment paper

Ornament

There was sufficient frosting left over to pipe some decorations on high. I then added some raspberries and mint for every colour.

If you wish to mud matcha excessive, achieve this proper earlier than serving.

Matcha varieties

There are two major grades of matcha.

Ceremonial: this one is on the high of the matcha high quality hierarchy. It’s extra nuanced and refined than the opposite sort of matcha, known as culinary grade.
Culinary: that is proper beneath ceremonial comes culinary matcha, and there are 5 subtypes: premium, café, ingredient, kitchen and basic. Premium is taken into account one of the best and is barely extra bitter than ceremonial, however not by all that a lot. That is the kind of culinary matcha you most frequently discover.

Once I make this Matcha Chai Latte or some other matcha drink that’s not simply plain matcha with scorching water, I exploit premium-grade matcha. Ceremonial matcha is just too costly to make use of frequently.

For baking, I completely use ceremonial-grade matcha.

matcha cake frosted with whipped cream cheese with swirls of frosting on top holding bright red raspberries

Finest matcha for baking

If you look into what sort of matcha to make use of for baking, you’ll discover that the opinions range relying on the place you’re trying.

Baking bloggers typically suggest ceremonial matcha. However matcha firms appear to all the time suggest culinary for baking.

Matcha firms additionally declare that ceremonial-grade matcha is just too delicate and costly to bake with.

It’s certainly costly, however you possibly can undoubtedly style the matcha. And ceremonial matcha is much less bitter than culinary, so I’m all for it.

The primary drawback with culinary matcha in baking is that it’s greenish brown. In the event you don’t care in regards to the colour, then you should use culinary. However I’d follow premium grade.

In order for you the good inexperienced colour you see within the pictures right here, you need to use ceremonial.

By the way in which, if you happen to’ve by no means had matcha earlier than and don’t know what it tastes like, test this out → What Does Matcha Style Like?

a circular matcha cake with white whipped cream cheese frosting decorated with red raspberries

What matcha to make use of

Midori Spring Ceremonial Matcha is the best-priced and highest-reviewed ceremonial matcha that I discovered on Amazon.

It’s the sort I utilized in these pictures and all my upcoming matcha dessert recipes, like this Matcha Cheesecake and these Matcha Brownies.

I’m going into element about totally different manufacturers of matcha in my Vegan Matcha Cookies recipe. In that publish, you’ll see that Midori Spring is the winner as a result of it’s the most affordable (which is good as a result of ceremonial matcha is insanely costly), virtually has one of the best colour, and tastes simply nearly as good as all the opposite ceremonial grade matcha.

Right here you possibly can see my little experiment!

image of 6 matcha cookies showing the difference in color between the different brands of matcha

Gluten-free model

Within the pictures, King Arthur Flour Gluten-free Measure for Measure Flour was used, however I’ve made it with all-purpose flour, and the cake seems and tastes precisely the identical.

Some gluten-free muffins are good straight from the oven, however then get denser all through the day. I can’t inform you what number of bizarre and gummy recipes I attempted earlier than this one.

Aside from the King Arthur flour I discussed above, I haven’t tried some other manufacturers on this recipe. So I can’t say in the event that they’d work as nicely.

I extremely suggest utilizing King Arthur for one of the best outcomes!

Coconut flour, almond flour or the rest that’s not meant as a 1:1 sub for all-purpose flour is not going to work.

a slice of layered green matcha cake with whipped cream cheese frosting between layers and a swirl of frosting holding a red raspberry

Reside outdoors of the US?

Simply skip this half if you happen to dwell within the US or Canada! It’s not related for you.

Cream cheese

In the event you dwell outdoors of the US or Canada, then you almost certainly have the kind of cream cheese in little tubs that should be unfold on toast. It doesn’t work the identical because the brick-style cream cheese that’s offered within the US, so that is what you need to do:

For 8 ounces (225 grams) of cream cheese, which is what you want for this recipe, purchase a 300-gram package deal of cream cheese. Retailer model cream cheese at Aldi, Lidl, and so forth., works simply in addition to Philadelphia model. Put the cream cheese within the heart of a clear tea towel or cheesecloth (not only a paper towel), and squeeze out the liquid till you might have 225 grams of cream cheese.

I do know it’s annoying. However if you happen to insist on skipping this step, I wouldn’t suggest this recipe. Or any US cream cheese frosting (or cheesecake) recipe.

a piece of matcha cake with whipped cream frosting and raspberries on top

Heavy cream

Many international locations don’t have heavy cream – simply whipping cream. In the event you use whipping cream, solely use 1 cup as an alternative of the 1 1/2 cups known as for.

With heavy cream, you possibly can simply pour it into the cream cheese combination and beat till the frosting is finished. However when utilizing whipping cream, it is advisable beat it individually from the cream cheese after which fold it in.

I’ve tried it, and it really works nice! It nonetheless yields sufficient for the cake.

Many websites say that double cream is the equal of US heavy cream, however double cream is definitely a lot richer.

Whipping cream within the US has a butterfat content material of 30%, with heavy cream at 36% to 38% butterfat. Double cream, although, has a butterfat content material of at the least 48%.

In the event you solely have double cream obtainable, you possibly can add some milk to it to water it all the way down to be round 36% fats, however it’s a lot simpler to simply use whipping cream.

That’s it! In the event you do this matcha cake, I’d love to listen to about it! Please go away a remark or snap a pic and tag #texanerin, so I can you should definitely see it. Thanks. 🙂