Receta Matcha and Adzuki Bean Roll Cake

You have seen or ever tried green tea ice creams, green tea frappes, green tea chocolates, green tea cookies and even green tea brownies? Well if you think you tried them all then let me introduce to you the green tea roll cake. Green Tea or Matcha and Adzuki Bean Roll Cake is a Western inspired roll cake made out of popular Japanese ingredients, the matcha and adzuki. Base ingredients are similar to sponge cake with the addition of matcha.

Matcha unlike other teas is in powder not dried leaf form, it is made from shade grown tea leaves also used to make gyokuro. Like I mentioned the tea leaves used in making matcha are covered from direct sunlight in effect slows down its growth and promotes increased production of chlorophyll…