My mother’s unique cake recipe, which our friends and family adore. This rich, tasty cake has a faint green tea flavor. To suit your tastes, feel free to ad more matcha green tea powder.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 45 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 2-inch fluted tube pan |
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 5 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 tablespoon matcha green tea powder, plus more for dusting
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 (18 ounce) can azuki beans, drained
- 1 teaspoon confectioners’ sugar, or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
- Beat white sugar, butter, milk, and vegetable oil together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into creamed butter mixture, beating well before adding the next egg.
- Whisk flour, green tea powder, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl; slowly mix into creamed butter mixture until batter is smooth. Fold azuki beans into batter; pour into the prepare tube pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Cool cake.
- Invert cake onto a serving plate and dust with green tea powder and confectioners’ sugar.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 555 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 69 g |
| Cholesterol | 120 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12 g |
| Sodium | 268 mg |
| Sugars | 35 g |
| Fat | 27 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is a dense, rich cake – a pound cake with the surprise of azuki beans and matcha. I was wary of using so much sugar and butter but followed the recipe and it was delicious. I made 2 half-sized bundt cakes and gave one away to a grateful friend. Thank you for the recipe, I’ll be sure to make this cake again.
I used whole wheat flour instead of white, and added baking powder. This sweet cake disappeared quickly! Making half the recipe(I used only 2 eggs, and 1 tsp. baking powder), this bakes for 45 minutes.