Basil Cake

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Basil Cake

Cook Time40 minutes
Total time40 minutes
Servings: 5 pieces
Author: Yuko Asano@Kuracooking
Cost: 500 yen

Equipment

  • cake tin
  • oven

Ingredients

  • 2 Eggs
  • 60 g Butter
  • 1 large can Canned tomatoes (crushed)
  • 10 g Basil
  • 40 g Almond flour
  • 25 g Rice flour
  • 25 g Mirin lees
  • a little Salt
  • a lot Love

Instructions

  • Separate eggs into whites and yolks.
  • Finely chop basil.
  • Sift rice flour and almond flour.
  • Cream butter using a speed cutter.
  • Add egg yolks, mirin lees, canned tomatoes, and love to step 4. Mix further.
  • Add the chopped basil from step 2 to the mixture in step 3.
  • Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then add salt.
  • Mix the dry ingredients from steps 5 and 6 in the speed cutter, then gently fold in the whipped egg whites from step 7.
  • Divide into 5 portions and bake at 170℃ for 20 minutes.

Notes

This is a healthy cake using mirin lees instead of sugar.
©2025 Yuko Asano
Author: Yuko Asano / Kuracooking
Yuko Asano / Kuracooking
I run a cooking school "Kura Cooking" in Iwakura City, Aichi Prefecture. I love "eating," "searching for delicious food," "making delicious food," and "creating new dishes," and I love to entertain people with my cooking ideas. If you are interested in Kura Cooking. Please contact us and we will be waiting for you in our classroom which is renovated warehouse built more than a century ago.