Matcha Loaf Cake

Dear Journal...

I haven't baked in a long time and I mean a long long time to the point where I even missed baking so I woke up in one on my days off and said "I'm going to bake a cake" I guess those baking classes I took while I was in High School paid off. I had bought some Matcha in a store called Teavana the store is really lovely and the employees are awesome I had a lot of fun sampling different teas and looking at all the beautiful tea pots and cup they have there. They also had a great selection of honeys. I definitely want to go back to that store. The only thing I had done with the Matcha I got was Matcha smoothies so I decided to do a Matcha loaf cake not a big one because I just wanted to see how it came out I am happy to say it came out tasting great! Everybody in my family loved it even my brother who don't like drinking tea. It really don't taste like tea at all and its actually really sweet and moist. I'm proud of myself for this I definitely will bake more things in the near future. So I will post the recipe here so I wont forget.

Matcha Loaf Cake:

1/2 cup Butter
2/3 cup Sugar
1 cup Flour
2 (Large) Eggs
1 tbsp Matcha
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract

Mix butter with the sugar till soft then add eggs one at a time, add flour, Matcha, and baking powder. Then lastly add the vanilla extract its not a lot but believe me it make a difference. After everything is well mix put in a loaf pan and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or till golden make sure to always doble check with a toothpick if it comes out clean then its done!

After the cake is done take:

6 Star Anise
6-8 Clove
1 stick of Cinnamon
1/2 cup of Water
1/4 cup of Sugar

Take the Anise and break it apart add the anise, cloves and cinnamon the the cup of water let it all simmer till the cup of water been reduce to half turned off the heat and add sugar make sure all the sugar is dissolve. Then take a toothpick and make a couple of little holes on the cake after that ether take a brush and brush some of the mixture on top of the cake or take a spoon and drizzle it over the cake before cutting it and let it rest so the mixture can get all over the cake.

After the cake has rested and cooled down slice it up and enjoy. You don't use the complete mixture just used enough to cover the cake. Depending on how big the cake is it depends on how much will you have left over. This is a medium-small cake really and it don't rise a lot. The spices and sugar mixture will help the cake to stay nice and moist so you can actually use this mixture for any cake you make not just this one.

Also this mixture works great as tea just add some more Cloves make sure that there are more Cloves than Star Anise pisses. Don't go crazy adding Clover and if needed add a bit more water. Also you don't have to let it reduce to half. Instead of adding all that sugar add a little bit of honey or your favorite sweetener for teas and add a little bit of milk at your taste to it and you have a spice tea that its great to help with pain when girls are on that time of the month or just to enjoy it. It really taste good so you don't have to be a girl to enjoy this spice tea.    

I hope anybody who reads this and decides to make this cake and tea enjoys it as much as I do.

Sincerely your's K.M.S.