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Green Tea Ice Cream Cake

Green Tea Ice Cream Cake

Green Tea Ice Cream Cake

I wanted to make something special for my 8 year anniversary. My husband and I both love green tea, so I decided to make this Green Tea Ice Cream Cake. If you like green tea ice cream, you’ll love this recipe! Making this Green Tea Ice Cream Cake was a lot of work, but definitely worth it in the end! Instead of I love you or thank you from my husband, the comment I got was, “they look expensive.”

This green tea ice cream cake recipe makes 3 small 3 inch cakes. You can double the ingredients and use a larger pan to make a larger cake. I used a 7 inch pan to make my sponge then I sliced it into 4 pieces (1/3 or 1/4 of an inch thick). Then I used a mousse ring to cut out 3 inch circles for the small cheesecake pan. You can also use a jelly roll pan to make the sponge. If you have left over sponge, you can freeze it and use later. Oh, and make sure you use good matcha powder!

I recommend using a Food Scale to weigh the ingredients instead of measuring. Measuring with cups always changed the texture of my cake. Weighing will help to create the same cake each time.

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This recipe makes 3 Small 3 inch Ice Cream Cakes

Ingredients

For the sponge:

  • 3 eggs
  • 80 grams cake flour
  • 2 teaspoon Matcha Green Tea Powder
  • 110 grams sugar
  • 2 tablespoon melted butter
  • 1 teaspoon honey

For the Green Tea Ice Cream:

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 25 grams sugar
  • 50 grams white chocolate chips
  • 120 grams whipping cream
  • 1 tablespoon Matcha Green Tea Powder
  • 2 tablespoon warm water

For the topping:

Things You’ll Need

Cooking Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a deep 7 inch Cake Pan with parchment or baking paper. In a large mixing bowl (or pot) bring water to a simmer.
  2. In another large mixing bowl (smaller than the water bowl), whisk together the eggs and sugar immediately by hand until combined. Now whisk the bowl over the hot water bowl until the mixture is pale and almost tripled in volume. You can use a hand mixer for this part. When the mixture is just hot enough to touch, remove from heated water bowl and add 1 teaspoon honey. Then keep whisking until you can draw a ribbon and it lasts for at least 3 seconds.

  3. Mix cake flour and matcha powder and sift. Carefully, but swiftly fold in the sifted cake flour/matcha powder using a rubber spatula. Then slowly fold in the melted butter and don’t mix too much. Pour mixture over lined 7 inch cake pan and bake for 30 minutes at 350°F.

  4. When sponge is done, remove from pan but leave the baking paper on and let the sponge cool down. When the sponge has cooled, peel off the paper and the brown top. Then slice the sponge into 4 pieces (about 1/4 to 1/3 inch thick). Use a 3″ mousse ring or round cookie cutter and cut out 6 small 3 inch pieces of sponge (the green part). Put aside for now and make the Ice Cream.
  5. To make the Green Tea Ice Cream, first make soft whipped cream (70%). Now melt the white chocolate chips. Then mix the matcha powder with warm water. Whisk the egg yolks with sugar over low heat just until the sugar has melted. Then remove from heat and add the melted white chocolate chips and matcha mix. Mix well.
  6. Now add the mixture to the whipped cream and mix well again. Put 1 sheet of sponge in 3 of the cups (cheesecake pan). Fill a pastry bag or ziploc bag with the filling and fill the cups about 3/4 of the way. Then top with another layer of sponge. Leave room for the whipped cream topping. Put in freezer and let it set for about an hour.

  7. For the topping, make some whipped cream and top each cup. Use a flat spatula to even out the top and then freeze for another hour.
  8. To loosen the frozen cake, wrap a warm kitchen towel over each cup. The temperature difference will loosen the frozen cake quickly. Carefully remove each ice cream cake and top with matcha powder. You can also add white chocolate decorations on top if desired.
  • Umami

    I may try & do this for my husband. He loves green tea ice cream!

    • My husband doesn’t really like sweets, but he really liked this dish :)

  • Awesome! My local Japanese pastry shop makes something like this all the time. They stuff it with red bean paste tho but I always wanted to make it! This looks really similar, I can’t wait to try it out! I think I’m going to make my mother jealous — thanks for the recipe! ^__^x

    • You can always add a layer of red bean paste before the mousse. :) For some reason, my husband doesn’t like the red bean/green tea combination, so I left it out this time~

  • OMG! It looks like one of those shops straight out of a Japanese cake shop! I hope it’s not too sweet ’cause I’m scheduled for a teeth whitening session with my dentist in Colorado Springs and I can’t afford to damage even a single tooth because I need to cut down on my budget I guess I’ll have to wait for the whitening session to finish before I try this recipe out! Thanks for yet, another wonderful recipe!

    • This mousse cake isn’t too sweet~ But to be safe, try after your teeth whitening session :)

  • RachaelRei

    Wow! This is such a beautiful, intricate recipe. Definitely a treat. :-)

  • I luv this post…what a gorgeous dessert and so ingenious how you assembled it. I have some matcha powder I used for shortbread…now I know what to do with the rest. Thx for sharing and all the fantastic supporting images! =)

    • Thanks for stopping by :) I hope the recipe works out for you~

  • Cakewhiz

    Happy aniversary :)
    I love green tea too so i will be sure to try this. It looks very pretty and thanks alot for those step by step instructions!
    -abeer @ http://www.cakewhiz.com

    • you’re welcome! and thanks for visiting :)

  • goooood Im a cake lover..I just want to eat this all pictures…getting hungry lol

  • Oh my God, man! This dessert looks mouth-watering! Hmm… This is truly a perfect treat for anyone.

  • Beautiful presentation! I love making green tea cheesecake, maybe I should give this a try too!

    • oooh~~ green tea cheesecake sounds delicious too!

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  • Honey J

    This look sooo good, I gonna try make it soon. If I want to make a big one using an 8″ springform pan or maybe 9″, do I need to double the ingredients? By the way, can I just leave the cake over night in the fridge instead of freezing it? 

    • Hi, this recipe would make a 7 inch cake, so maybe up the ingredients by 1/2 (?) for an 8 inch cake. I didn’t use gelatin for this recipe, so I’m not sure how well it will hold up in the fridge. It would probably be better to freeze it. I hope your cake turns out well ^___^

  • Ravel

    I was looking for a green tea dessert recipe when I came across your blog, and I got more than just a green tea dessert recipe!  All the recipes on your blog site look deeeelish and I am aiming to try out all your Japanese cooking recipes!

    :-)

    • Thanks for visiting! I hope all the recipes work out for you!

  • Huicassandra

    For some reason my green tea mousse cake melted after I took out from the freezer..

    • How long did you have it in the freezer? 

  • Jolijo

    Could you recommend what brand of green tea to use in this recipe? The green tea powder that I use gives me a very light green colour!

    • I use Maeda-en shiki matcha or Maeda-en culinary matcha. There’s a link at the top of the page under ingredients :)

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  • mitch

    i’ll bake this for myself . 

  • Gao Nou

    Will the mousse filling melt if left at room temperature after freezing it?  Is it best eaten frozen or does it matter?

  • This recipe doesn’t contain gelatin, so it will melt. It’s more like an ice cream cake. I think it’s best eaten frozen.

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  • Luv_ashley124

    I was wondering is there any way i can add a layer of jello on top? b/c I saw a green tea mousse cake with jello n I would love to recreate it!!! 

    • Maybe you can make the jello separately and use a 3″ cookie cutter to cut out jello circles. Then you can place it on top :)

  • thuytien

    Is it possible to add gelatin to the mousse and set it in the fridge?

    • yep, that will work too.

      • thuytien

        Thankyou I will give it a try :D

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