matcha zebra cake

I saw zebra cake at somewhere. it was chocolate & vanilla swill .
it looked beautiful!
I wanted try to make it. but I had no cocoa or anything chocolate stuff to use for baking.
so, I decided to use matcha powder instead of cocoa.
every time when I use matcha powder for baking,ended up too much matcha flavor.
( I guess I just using too much of it ).
any way. recipe uses 2tbs of dark cocoa powder.
so I used just 1 tbs of matcha powder.

result ?
cake was very moist & delicious.
sweet enough,you could drop some cream maybe.

but it needed bit more matcha flavor.it was bit too mild.

but this look of cake is so pretty. no chemical green color,it's natural.
I liked a lot. but next time I would add 2tbs of matcha.
and I would like to try to make chocolate version.

KARE-PAN

Have you ever tried kare-pan before ?
it is Japanese bread filed with pasty curry and deep fried.
I never even thought of make this at my kitchen.
suddenly hit me kare-pan yesterday for some reason.
I was in the middle of making bread.
usually just bread, or sometimes wrapped with mustard,cheese & ham.
or chocolate.
but I wanted something different, so this is perfect time to try kare-pan.

I made curry-like filling. nothing like real curry.
sweetened with mirin, soy sauce for japanese-y flavor.
wrap curry with dough, then fried.
my vegetable oil had ran out, so I fried them in olive oil.

I was't sure that how much olive oil add flavor to it.
it didn't affected at all.

bread came out perfect.tasted just like the one you can buy bakery.
I don't think anybody make kare-pan if you were living in japan.
because they are available every bakery.
but it was nice experience for me to make something very familiar food in my kitchen.

especially for me, kare-pan was one of my favorite food when I was kid.
so It was very satisfied experience .