I have somehow managed to let almost two months lapse since the last post. Tragically, I have no excuse other than laziness.
I made a Bundt cake (using this Bundt pan, of course) made with chocolate and matcha batters, swirled together. It was a delightful combination of the two flavors, a beautiful spiral of brown and green. But how would one have come up with such a concoction?
Chiemi plopped down on her bed, exhausted after a full day’s work. She had cleaned up her small apartment to be neat and tidy, keeping only the things that sparked joy within her, just like Marie Kondo had told her to. And yet, she felt empty. Well, her apartment was indeed empty, but her heart was, too.
She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep, but after only a few minutes, the doorbell suddenly rang. Not expecting any visitors, she was taken by surprise. She snapped out of her shallow slumber and peeped through the peephole. It was her neighbor, Tadashi. She had said hi a few times, thought he was cute, but never really had the nerve to strike up an actual conversation with him.
Chiemi opened the door. Tadashi said hi, and said that he had locked himself out of his apartment. He had called the landlord, but he wasn’t going to get here for another couple of hours, and Tadashi was wondering if he could stay in her apartment for a bit, to get out of the cold. His request made Chiemi’s fatigue instantly disappear, and she welcomed him in, perhaps a bit too enthusiastically.
Tadashi instantly spied a Bundt pan in Chiemi’s kitchen and asked if she baked often. She replied that she tried to bake sometimes, but she was often too tired to bake after work. He seemed excited by the idea of baking, and suggested that perhaps they could try baking something together, if Chiemi had the energy. She sprung at the chance to do this activity with Tadashi.
He said that his favorite flavor was chocolate, and suggested a chocolate Bundt cake. He asked Chiemi what her favorite dessert flavor was, and she replied matcha. The slight bitterness from the powdered green tea, combined with some sweetness, was just heavenly.
On her way home from work today, Chiemi had seen a little girl with a soft serve cone, with a swirl of vanilla and chocolate. That gave her an idea for the Bundt cake. What if they swirled together chocolate and matcha? That could turn out to be an amazing combination.
So they each started making a cake batter with their respective favorite flavors. Tadashi added cocoa powder to his, making a thick, luscious chocolatey batter that was deep brown. Chiemi added some bright green matcha powder to hers, making a beautiful verdant batter. They dropped alternating dollops of batter into the Bundt pan, and then took a knife and made swirls in the batter, combining the two colors. All they had to do now was stick it in the oven and wait.
While the cake baked in the oven, Chiemi opened a bottle of wine and poured two glasses. They sat at her small kitchen table, getting to know each other. She talked about her job as a financial analyst at a local firm, he talked about his job as an architect designing office buildings like the one she worked in. They broached other topics like childhood memories and future dreams, and before they knew it, the wine bottle was empty, and the cake was ready. They pulled it out of the oven and let it cool on the counter, going back to their conversation about her dream to open her own baking consulting company, his dream to open his own architecture firm.
The time had come to turn out the cake, and thankfully, it came out cleanly. Chiemi cut two slices, and they both simultaneously dug in with their forks. Both of their eyes lit up with expressions of joy and the knowledge that they had created this wonderful concoction between the two of them.
The wine was getting to them, and when their eyes locked after setting their plates down, their lips darted at each other like two dogs running towards the same bone. They met in the middle, their lips touching each other for the first time, their tongues slowly exploring their mouths.
Wordlessly, they moved over to Chiemi’s bed, the same one she had collapsed onto a mere hour ago right before Tadashi had come to her door. Her blouse came off, as did his shirt, and her bra was soon lying on the floor. They were both naked from the waist up, and their lips met each other again, both of them feeling a passion that neither of them had felt before.
It wasn’t long before their pants both came off, and she was down to her panties, he to his boxers. The wetness in her panties was as evident as the tent in his boxers, and soon those were off, too, and they pressed their naked flesh against each other.
The time had come, and Chiemi reached over to her nightstand to get a condom. Tadashi quickly opened the wrapper and put it on his throbbing penis, eager to get it inside of her. Her natural lubrication was more than enough, and his member slid in as easily as a spoon into yogurt.
Tadashi started thrusting into Chiemi, his tongue exploring her mouth as his penis went in and out of her vagina. She let out moans of pleasure, sounds she didn’t know she was capable of. She had had sex with other men, but it was never like this, where the connection was so real, the penetration so deep. The tip of his penis was hitting just the right spot inside of her.
Waves of pleasure swelled inside of her, and she could feel herself nearing climax. Tadashi, too, was approaching his climax, and before long, she could feel the blood rushing into her groin, the pleasure bursting out of her like fireworks from a cannon. Her primal moans were enough to push him over the edge, and he unleashed spurt after spurt of his hot liquid into the condom. It was just big enough to hold all of his liquid, and he pulled out of her, exhausted from the fervent intercourse that had just occurred.
Chiemi lay down softly in her bed, briefly closing her eyes while a smile flashed across her face. it was the most amazing sex ever, all because of the most amazing cake ever.
OK, so it probably didn’t happen like that, I mean who bakes at home in Japan? I got the recipe here.
Chocolate Matcha Bundt Cake
Chocolate batter
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Matcha batter
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2-3 tablespoons matcha powder
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Wet mixture
3 cups sugar
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3 eggs, room temperature
1 3/4 cup milk, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Grease and flour a Bundt pan.
- Mix together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt for the chocolate batter in a small bowl.
- Mix together the flour, matcha powder, baking powder, and salt for the matcha batter in another small bowl.
- Cream together the butter and sugar for the wet mixture.
- Add the eggs, milk, and vanilla, and beat until well-blended.
- Divide the butter mixture evenly into two bowls.
- Add the chocolate batter to one half of the butter mixture and mix until blended.
- Add the matcha batter to the other half of the butter mixture and mix until blended.
- Alternately drop spoonfuls of the chocolate and matcha batters into the Bundt pan.
- Run a knife through the batter and swirl to create a marbled effect.
- Bake at 325F for an hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let cool before removing from the pan.
The matcha batter. A nice green color.
The chocolate batter.
I dropped alternating spoonfuls of each batter, finishing with a layer of chocolate since I figured the green wouldn’t show very well on the outside anyway. This is also the bottom of the cake, which people won’t really see.
After an hour and 15 minutes in the oven, it’s done.
The green doesn’t show up very much on the outside of the cake.
On the inside, though, it’s a bright green color.
I’m not very good at swirling, but here you can see the two colors.
