Green Tea Chiffon Cake
By: Anncoo
Published: Sunday, November 21, 2010 - 2:53am

Ingredients




70 grams Plain flour
10 grams Green tea powder
5 Egg yolks
20 grams Caster sugar
70 grams Water
60 grams Canola oil or corn oil
Meringue
90 grams Caster sugar
10 grams Corn flour
5 Egg whites

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 170C 2 Sift flour and green tea powder together twice. Combine egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and mix well. Add water and corn oil and blend together. Add flour and green tea powder mixture and mix until batter becomes sticky. Set aside. 3 Make meringue ~ Combine sugar and corn flour. Beat egg whites until foamy. Add half the sugar and flour mixture and continue beating for a few minutes, then add remaining sugar and flour mixture and beat until egg whites are glossy, with stiff peaks. 4 Slowly pour all the egg mixture into the meringue at low speed then stop machine. Using a rubber spatula and fold the mixture well. 5 Pour batter into an ungreased 20cm chiffon cake pan. Place in the oven and bake for 50 minutes then switch oven to lower grill for 5 minutes. 6 When cake is done, remove from oven and turn the pan over. Leave cake to cool in pan. 7 Once cake has cooled completely, carefully run a knife or spatula around the sides of the cake to loosen it.