green-tea cake

plural green-tea cakes

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of green tea cake.

   The green-tea cake is tasty, an unusual dessert.

   1996, Lise Stern, Boston Food Lover, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 248

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   The home-made petits fours at IS Tea include a melt-in-the-mouth milk-vetch cake, a refreshing and sweet osmanthus-blossom cake, and Huang’s newly created green-tea cake.

   2000, 光華, page 63

   Ben-Israel created a green-tea cake, which was made with macha—green powdered tea sent from Japan by the client’s family.

   2005, The National Culinary Review: Official Magazine of the American Culinary Federation, page 24

   At Japonaise Bakery in the center of Porter Exchange, rolls stuffed with azuki beans, choco horns (sweet white dough surrounding chocolate filling), and green-tea cakes share counter space with finger sandwiches of tuna salad, egg salad, and ham that even have the crusts cut off.

   2005 January 23, Rachel Travers, “Streetwise: Cambridge’s Upper Mass. Ave.”, in The Boston Globe Magazine, page 11

   And when we ask to wrap up the abundant leftovers, the hostess packages the dumplings and green-tea cakes in reusable Tupperware-like containers and stacks them in an elegant gift bag.

   2007, Jan Wong, Chinese Whispers: Searching for Forgiveness in Beijing, London: Atlantic Books, published 2009, →ISBN

   […] there’s traditional British fare, such as scones with clotted cream, as well as intriguing concoctions, such as pea and yogurt soup, and green-tea cake.

   2007, New York City (Real City Guides), London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 177