Green Eats for St. Patrick's Day

Green Tea Cake Recipe
You can make this as a sheet cake or a layer cake, depending on your needs. If you want to give this green tea cake an even greener color, you can add a bit of Matcha powder. This cake is light and subtly flavored.

GREEN TEA CAKE
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 to 5 teaspoons powdered green tea
1 ¼ cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 eggs

GREEN TEA ICING

1 ¼ cups powdered sugar
2 ½ teaspoons powdered green tea
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, soft
3 ounces cream cheese, soft
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ teaspoons milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9×13-inch or two, 9-inch cake pans. In a bowl, sift the all-purpose flour with cake flour, baking soda, salt, and green tea powder, mix well and set aside. In another bowl, beat the white sugar, oil, and eggs until smooth. Stir in vanilla extract. Gradually beat in the flour mixture, alternating with the yogurt. Mix well and pour the batter into the prepared baking pans. Bake the cake for 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a cake rack for 30 minutes before icing.

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Leprechaun Milkshake

Ingredients:

•1 cup vanilla ice cream, slightly thawed
•1/2 cup milk
•1/8 tsp. mint extract or flavoring
•4 to 5 drops green food coloring
Mix ingredients in a blender and garnish with mint leaves..Yummy

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Green Tortilla Chips
Can’t find green chips? No worries you can make these super festive chips at home. Serve with nacho cheese, green salsa or guacamole. .
Ingredients:
1 Tbsp. Green Food Color
2 1/4 C. Water
3. Roughly 40 5″ White Corn Tortilla Shells

Directions:
1.Mix together food color and water.
2.With pastry brush, brush on color on both sides of a 5 1/2 ” white corn tortilla. Let dry for one hour.
3.Slice into triangles and fry in hot vegetable oil. (you can also spray with cooking spray and bake on cookie sheet at 375 until desired texture)
4.Drain tortilla shells on paper towels, salt to taste.

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More Easy Green foods


Spinach pasta
Green pancakes
Salad
Guacamole
Mint chip ice cream
Green milk
Green cupcakes
Green apples
green eggs and clover shaped toast
green grapes
Green jello
Green tea cake (see recipe at top)