Japanese Green Tea Cheesecake!

It's a long time since I bake Japanese Cheesecake! Since I have a whole block of cream cheese in my fridge, I must put them into good use.. so, you can expect a lot of cheesy stuff till I finish the cream cheese.

Not bad.. at least this looks 'Green' unlike the Green Tea Muffin I made recently.

For this cake, I have used the same recipe plus 2 teaspoon of green tea powder to the corn flour.

This is simply yummy!

Long time no see: Green Tea Muffin!!

Just browse through previous batches of Green Tea Muffin I have made.. Somehow, this batch seems to be more brown than Green! Probably 'cos I have used a different Green Tea Powder compare to previous ones. Anyway, taste as good! Hope they will be well received tmr in my office!

GreenTea Milk Bread

1 tablespoon of Green Tea powder into Milk Bread combination =

This loaf of bread is made by my helper.. She is now my official Breadmaker for the household!
Tasted it, taste is wonderful!

Tiramisu in cups!

It's a long time since I made my last Tiramisu. I bought a variety of cups during my recent trip to Daiso, so decided to make something in them and the 1st thing I have in mind is Tiramisu.

I have only make half of my usual recipe and I further divide them into 2 flavours: GreenTea and Original.

I like this cup, it's round with 3 tiny 'legs'.
This GreenTea Tiramisu has no alcahol and has a very refreshing taste.

Quick GreenTea Muffins

I have promised a girl in my client's office that I will make some muffins on my last day at their office. However, I have cleaned forget about it until I woke up this morning. Hence, I made this in rush of less than 1hour (including baking time).

The recipe is supposed to yield 12 mufifns, however, I want more fully filled muffins, so, I spooned the mixture into only 10 muffin cups.

These muffins called for more greentea powder and hence the taste of greentea is much stronger than the previous batch. I have obmitted the chocolate this time as dear hubby commented that the chocolate chips will cover the taste of greentea.

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients (I used 10mins to gather these)

• 2 cups AP flour
• 3/4 cup white sugar (original recipe called for 1 cup)
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2tsp greentea powder (I used 'Red Man' bakable greentea)
• 1/2 cup milk (I used slim milk)
• 1 stick butter (wonder how much is 1 stick, so used 100gm that is called for in another muffin recipe)
• 2 eggs (not stated size, so used 1 big, 1 medium)

Method:
1. Sift together flour, soda, greentea and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, beat the butter until light, add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
3. Fold in dry ingredients in 3 portions alternating with milk until just incorporated (do not overmixed) - I used 10mins to do this.
4. Spoon bater into lined muffin try and bake at 175degC for 25 to 30mins.

Green Tea Vs Chocolate Chocolate chips Muffin

Made this to welcome back my dear hubby from overseas after 3 wks! I took me only 30mins to put the tray into the oven before I go off to fetch the man!


However, after I got home to cut the muffin, I noticed that they are undercooked, hence, pop them into the oven for another 5mins.

Ingredients (makes 12 muffin):

113gm unsalted butter

200gm cake flour

2tsp baking powder

2tsp bakable green tea powder

3tsp cocoa powder

1/2 cup milk

2 eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

How I do it:

1. Cream butter using electric mixer at medium speed until smooth, add sugar gradually till fluffy, add eggs, one at a time till well mix

2. Shift flour and baking powder, mix into the butter mixture in 3 parts alternating with milk and vanilla essence using the electric mixer at low speed.

3. Split the batter into 2 bowls. Add greentea powder into one bowl and cocoa powder into the other, follow by chocolate chips.

4. Spoon the batter into the muffin tray laid with muffin cup and bake at 180degC for 25mins.

Greentea/Chocolate Chip cupcakes vs Lemon Yoghurt Cupcake

Woke up at 7am to make these cupcakes & donuts as I have to send my girl to enrichment class at 10am.

My sil asked me to make Brownie for my nephew's birthday in addition to the Birthday cake from Angies the Choice. I was very reluctant to make the brownie as I have just made one few days back. So I decided to make Greentea and Chocolate cupcakes. However, my mom is not keen in anything to do with greentea, so I have to make another cupcakes flavour. As I browse through the internet for a recipe, I came across this Lemon Yoghurt cupcake. This settles for the additional cake for the party.

I used buttercream frosting for the toppings, added some cocoa powder for the greentea cupcakes while the Lemon Yoghurt ones are left just with original frosting (should have added some lemon juice/extract to enhance the flavour of lemon in the cupcake)

I like the colours of these freshly baked greentea cupcakes!

I left this in the oven for about 20mins, and after leaving it in the rack to cool down, I tried one, then thought it could be undercooked, hence, they are popped into the oven for another 5mins. The frosting and decorations are made after I got back home at about 11.30am.

As this is my first attempt using the 'Red Man' greentea bakable powder, I have no idea how it will taste like until I reach my bro's house. It is very refreshing and the cake is not very sweet, this is make up by the frosting which calls for 3cup of confectionery's sugar.

My girl helped me to sprinkle the colourful beads on the frosting. I like the sourness & lemony taste in this version of cupcakes.

Green Tea Tiramisu

This is my 1st few attempts in making Tiramisu. manage to find powdered instant GreenTea powder from Market Place to replace all liqour and cocoa ingredients.