Matcha Opera Cake

Opera Cake is a type of French cake. It is made with layers of almond sponge cake (known as Joconde in French) soaked in coffee syrup, layered with ganache and coffee buttercream and covered in a chocolate glaze.  

The typical combination is chocolate and coffee, but instead of coffee we used Matcha. 

It is really an interesting flavour combination. Chocolate has a deep and strong sweetness but with Matcha it becomes mild and slighty bitter. This is ideal cake for green tea lovers and also for not-too-sweet cakes lovers.
 
Ingredients:

(For Matcha Sponge Cake)
3 egg yolks
40 g sugar
40g almond powder
Vanilla Essence
3 egg whites
40 g sugar
40 g flour
Matcha green tea powder  8g

(Matcha Cream)
100 g cream
60 g white chocolate
1 teaspoon of Matcha green tea powder

(Chocolate Cream)
100 g cream
80 g of black chocolate

(Matcha Syrup)
100cc Water
20 g sugar
1 teaspoon of Matcha green tea powder


Preparation:

1. Mix egg yolks and sugar. Add almond powder and vanilla essence and mix well.
2. Make a meringue with egg whites and sugar.
3. Add one third of the meringue into the mixture and add the flour and mix it. Add the remaining meringue and mix again.
4. Bake the mixture in the oven at 200ºC for 8 minutes.
5. Prepare Matcha cream. Boil the cream and melt chocolate inside. Whip the cream and add Matcha.
6. Prepare chocolate cream in the same way.
7. Prepare Matcha syrup. Heat water and add sugar and Matcha green tea and mix well.
8. Remove the sponge cake from oven and divide into 3 equal parts and moist them with syrup.
9. Assemble the cake with the following order: first of all place one square of sponge cake on the baking sheet and moisten it gently with Matcha syrup. Next put chocolate cream on. Next put another aquare of sponge cake on. Next put Matcha cream on. Next put another square of sponge cake on...
10. Finally, melt black chocolate and put on the cake.