Pineapple and matcha green tea marble cake

The marble cake

Ingredients:

Dry ingredients
350 g – All-purpose flour without gluten (Bob’s Red Mill)
150 g – Evaporated cane juice sugar
2 g – Bicarbonate of soda
2 g – Xanthan gum

Wet ingredients
34 g – Melted coconut oil (liquid consistency)
60 g – Unsweetened apple sauce
300 g – Fresh pineapple in pieces
9 g – Lemon juice (1 tbsp.)
50 g – Orange juice (1/4 cup)
5 g – Ground golden flax seed

Other
1 pinch – Powdred turmeric
1 1/2 tsp. – Matcha green tea (powdered)

Technique:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and xanthan gum in a bowl. Set aside.
• In a blender, combine orange juice with pineapple pieces and blend lightly to make a puree. Set aside.
• In another bowl, combine liquid coconut oil, apple sauce, ground flax seeds and lemon juice. Then stir in the pineapple puree.
• Pour the wet mixture into the middle of the dry mixture and mix well.
• To create the marbled effect, divide the batter into two different bowls.
• Add the matcha to one bowl and the turmeric powder to the other. Blend well.
• Oil the baking pan.
• Pour half of the yellow batter into the pan and then half of the green batter. Repeat with the second half of the yellow batter and then the green batter.
• Bake for about 35 minutes.
• Test for doneness with a toothpick in the centre of the cake.
• When done, remove cake from oven and let rest for an hour until it is room temperature
• Cover with frosting and slice.

Frosting

Ingredients:

• 115 g – Roasted cashews (3/4 cup)
• 1/4 cup – Orange juice
• 100 g – Pineapple
• 10 g – Sugar
• 1/8 cup – Melted coconut oil (liquid consistency) (20 g)
• 1 tsp – Powdered matcha tea

Technique:

• Soak cashews for 4 hours. Then rinse well.
• Blitz cashews, pineapple, orange juice, sugar and coconut oil in a blender until they have a smooth consistency.
• Let stand 25 minutes in the refrigerator.
• Remove 4 tbsp. of the frosting and place in another bowl.
• Add the matcha tea powder to this and stir to make a uniformly green mixture.
• Cover the cake with the initial yellow frosting. Then add 4 stripes of green frosting.
• Make a marbled pattern by drawing the tip of a butter knife or a spoon back and forth between the lines.

A Stéphanie Audet recipe

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