Tea Cake Recipes

Serves 12
This is a light and moist cake that is not too sweet and has a refreshing green tea fragrance. The frosting uses cream cheese but has enough sweetness to mask the sour taste. The matcha (green tea) powder gives it a delicate green hue too. This cake can also be baked as a sheet cake in a 9x 13 inch pan or as 2 separate round cakes in two 8 inch round pans. Adjust baking time accordingly.

Adzuki beans or Red Beans are very popular as a dessert item in Japan.

Adzuki Bean desserts are not as sweet as our American desserts. We love sugar and do not consider this high protein treat as highly as it's health benefits deserve.

Use a mixture of Splenda and granulated sugar to bring it to a sweeter taste if you desire.

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Here is some great advice from: LYNNETH7

*1 tsp of matcha is as beneficial as up to 6 tsp of brewed green tea leaves because you actually eat matcha powder instead of tossing it away after brewing.

*Get yourself a decent matcha powder. Check your local Asian supermarkets. Find a container sealed with a vacuum/nitrogen lock.

*Make sure it is grown in Uji for best quality.

Enjoy! Love, Vera

A twist on the standard chocolate cake in an eggless, very moist but still very fluffy variety.

A traditional Japanese Pound cake, from and shared on healthy-green-tea.com

Easy tasty!!!

A mix of homemade fig and peach jams add luscious flavour and moisture to this cocoa-based tea cake. Mesquite flour and maca powder add even more richness, while cacao nibs add crunch and chocolate chips add bursts of sweetness!

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From Melissa d'Arabian (Food Network). Good and easy with ingredients found in most pantries. Very refreshing for spring.

This is from Karin's Gluten Free Goddess Site. It is her recipe. I am just adding it here b/c I used it and wish to track my food. Google her!

cake box mix very yummy

A light treat with only 139 calories

A moist dessert favorite with a Japanese twist. You can substitute applesauce for butter to cut fat and calories.

My version of a delicious Japanese treat.

Cake which tastes like tea!

I serve this as 20 small pieces

Fantastic cake. Dense and lightly sweet with yummy bits of bean paste. :) No added oil/fat.

Just came up with it, still in the oven! It's already smelling really good, so I hope it turns out well and you can all enjoy it.

If you love coconut flavor and want a low-sugar treat with the antioxidants of green tea, this is the perfect go-to cake recipe!

From batter up kids delicious desserts

For the Chinese New Year, a common practice is to clean out all the "old" aspects of your life to welcome in all the new good luck for the coming year. This cake made use of pretty much everything that was in my baking cupboard as I cleaned it out - three kinds of nuts, three types of dried fruit and even a handful of pureed berries I found in the fridge. It's dense, moist and luxurious, and you'd never guess it only has 1/4 cup of oil!

Tastes just like the glazed orange cakes you can buy at a grocery store with over 500 fewer calories!!