gf green tea cake and green tea or strawberry buttercream frosting

Green tea cake 

altered from http://www.thevintagemixer.com/2013/07/matcha-green-tea-pound-cake-recipe/

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil a loaf pan or line with parchment paper.

mix together

1/4 cup coconut oil or butter
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
3/4 cup vanilla almond milk (you may use regular milk)
1 cup sorghum flour(or whole wheat pastry for those who are not gf)
1 tablespoon matcha green tea powder or 2tb ground green tea
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tb vanilla
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 45-50 minutes or until golden brown on the outside and a toothpick comes out clean.

Frosting (if desired) green tea or strawberry buttercream
1 stick ozs room temperature butter (fully soft) or same amount quality margarine
1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

1ttb milk

1 tbsp matcha or ground green tea (or 3 tb strawberry preserves or  2 tb pureed strawberries or raspberries in which case omit milk)

cream together sugar and butter until fluffy and uniform.

mix in fruit or matcha

blend until uniform.

pour into piping bags/ a bowl/zippie bags and chill 1/ hr

frost your cooled cake.

adorn with some mint or thin fresh fruit slices

If you need to avoid gluten be especially careful on checking baking powder, sorghum flour and powdered sugar as many brands are co-processed with wheat flours