Could you give me some good Japanese recipes for desserts?

I made a matcha green tea cake a few weeks ago and it was amazing! Matcha is a popular ingredient in Japanese desserts for colour and flavouring and it really turned the whole cake green too! :)

This recipe was really easy to make and the only ingredients that you need to get apart from things like eggs and sugar that you should already have at home is the green tea. I also added some sweet kuri chestnuts to mine, but those are optional.

-= Matcha Green Tea Cake Recipe =-

INGREDIENTS:

• Matcha Green Tea Powder – 10g

• Japanese Sweet Kuri Chestnuts – 100g

• Sugar – 80g

• Self-raising Flour – 120g

• Eggs – 2

• Butter – 100g

HOW TO PREPARE:

1. Begin by pre-heating your oven to 180°C. Before preparing the cake mix, slice your sweet chestnuts in half and put them aside for a moment.

2. Put the butter in a large bowl in your microwave on full power for one minute, or heat it in a saucepan until it melts. Once the butter has melted fully, slowly add the flour and mix well until you obtain a smooth mixture.

3. Now add the eggs and sugar to your bowl before mixing again. Lastly, add the matcha and the sliced chestnuts to the bowl. Mix everything until all the ingredients are fully blended together and the mix becomes a lovely green colour.

4. Grab a cake tin and grease it with a small amount of melted butter. Pour in the cake mix into the tin and then pop it in the oven for 40 minutes. Your cake is now ready and tastes extra delicious when it is still warm.

Baking is easy isn’t it! :)

This recipe is from Japan Centre where you can find the ingredients and buy them online with delivery available to the UK and Europe.

http://www.japancentre.com/recipes/209

I hope this helps.

One of my favourite Japanese Dessert is Green Tea Ice-Cream.

Here is the Recipe

Makes about half a litre

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp green tea powder

• 2/3 cup sugar

• 3 egg yolks

• 3/4 cup milk

• 200ml pure cream

Method

1. Mix the tea powder with two tablespoons of sugar.

2. In a separate bowl, mix egg yolks with remaining sugar.

3. Pour milk into pan and heat gently. Be careful not to boil it.

4. Remove from heat and mix some of the milk into the green tea mixture.

5. When you have a smooth paste, add it to the remaining milk in the pan.

6. Whisk in the egg yolks and leave to cool.

7. Whip the cream then add to the cold green tea mixture.

8. Freeze

30 min 15 min prep 1 1/2 cups whipping cream green tea powder, to taste sugar or sugar substitute, to taste Whip the cream until bubbles start to form. Add in green tea powder. Add in sugar or sugar substitute. A beautiful green will appear, and enjoy!

egg custard.... eggs, fresh milk or half and half. For every one egg use about 1/2 C-2/3C. of liquid, and about 2 T. sugar. Beat the mixture until well blended, bake in a pan of water at 300F for about 1 hr. Alternatively, you can steam the custard.

Green tea ice cream and there is a Bon Bon that has a sweet rice coating with strawberry ice cream in the center .