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If you are in Rome (sorry, in Japan), do like the Romans (Japanese) - use maccha. It makes a fine tricolored marble cake.

Same preparations as in the Mozzarella-Tofu cheese cake A) outer layer - called Mürbeteig in German or shortcrust pastry in English: 100 g fat (butter or margarine) 100 g sugar 250 g flour 1/2 sachet of baking powder = about 8 g? 1 egg yolk a pinch of salt a little bit of milk B) inner layer: 1 pack of tofu (=400g) de-watered 4 medium-sized bananas (sorry forgot to weigh) 4 egg yolks 40 g corn starch1/4 sachet of baking powder 80 g of sugar some taste, e.g. lemon scrapes or lemon extract or whatever you like with cheese cake C) 5 egg whites 1. Make the base cake from the ingredients of A. 2. Put it at rest for 30 min, some put it even in a fridge overnight. 3. Mix all ingredients of B to get a semi-liquid mass. 4. Pre-heat the oven to 180C. 5. Lay the pastry into the form and around the walls. 6. Beat the egg-whites until semi-solid and mix it with the mass from B. 7. Pour the mixture into the form. 8. Heat it for 60-80 Minutes until the tooth-stick test is...

As a German, I like cheese cakes but, unfortunately, you can't get curd (Quark) cheese in Japan - at least not easily. So, using Tofu instead, a bit of experience is necessary. Tofu should be de-watered. Put a Tofu block into a soup plate, put another plate on it - plus some weight. This presses efficiently the water out. The amount of ingredients is for a 23 cm baking form (a standard size in Germany). It is a two-layer cake, the inner/upper layer is the mozzarella-tofu mixture, the outer layer contains the flour - like a tart. A) outer layer - called Mürbeteig in German or shortcrust pastry in English: 100 g fat (butter or margarine) 100 g sugar 250 g flour 1/2 sachet of baking powder = about 8 g? 1 egg yolk a pinch of salt a little bit of milk B) inner layer: 1/2 pack of tofu (=200g) de-watered 200g of mozzarella cheese 4 egg yolks 1 pack of whipped cream (200ml) - I use whatever cream is available 40 g corn starch 1/4 sachet of baking powder 80 g of s...