16 Matcha Baking Recipes

You want to bake with matcha but can't decide between a loaf to slice, a cake to fill, or a log to roll. This selection gathers those shapes and a few families of smaller desserts. The pan and assembly will guide your choice better than an ingredient list. For the full range, our matcha recipes include drinks and savory dishes too.

We'd start with the yogurt cake if you want a simple batter to pour into a pan. The layer cake and yule log need more assembly. Choose the technique you want to try before choosing the decoration.

Which matcha cake should you make?

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  To share eight servings, the matcha yule log calls for rolling sponge cake around cream and fruit.
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  For slices without assembly, matcha loaf cake bakes in a long pan.
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  Very ripe bananas make soft matcha banana bread, cut into eight slices after cooling.
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  One round yogurt cake makes a simple matcha cake if you want to begin with a batter that's easy to pour.
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  If you want to see a spiral of sponge and cream in each slice, the matcha Swiss roll needs careful rolling.
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  With two cake layers and cream to stack, matcha layer cake suits a day when you have time for assembly.
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  Twelve cooled crepes make a mascarpone mille crepe cake if you want layers without baking a sponge.
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  When the pan should shape the cake, matcha Bundt cake comes out as a ring with its pattern intact.
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  To share eight servings, a light matcha chiffon cake gets its structure from beaten egg whites in a tube pan.
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  Carrot and tea meet under a fresh frosting in matcha carrot cake if you want a cake to finish after baking.
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  For coconut cream over a baked crust, matcha tart calls for a different assembly from loaf cake.

Small desserts, chocolate, or yeasted dough?

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  Chocolate and matcha desserts give you two flavors to compare. Chocolate's role changes with the recipe.
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  Matcha candies and confections come as small bites, some crisp and others soft.
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  Matcha brioches and pastries call for working yeasted dough. They move at a different pace from a loaf cake.
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  For a batch of pieces to keep or share, matcha cookies and biscuits range from cutout shortbread to coconut mounds.
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  From a cream puff to fill to a madeleine to unmold, small matcha cakes suit moments when the pan and individual serving matter.

Which matcha should go into the batter?

Sugar, baking, and the other ingredients change how much the tea comes through. Choosing matcha for baking helps keep its flavor noticeable.