I want to make a ginger cake with green tea mousse filling.
I was thinking of going the easy route and doctoring a white cake mix for the cake. If I added ginger to the white cake mix, would that taste ok?
My other question is, what flavor icing would work best with this cake and filling?
TIA!
I am not a fan of cake mixes so I would say it's best to make a scratch cake...especially since mixes are often quite sweet, it may interfere with the ginger flavor.
Any citrus, lemon or lime would go well. Are you using a green tea powder for the mousse? Raspberry goes well to.
Well, I tend to do doctored cake mixes b/c that's what I and all my family/friends prefer. The cake is for one of my friend's birthday -- he's left the entire cake up to me. 
We're getting together to make sushi at his house, so I'm planning on making a sushi-themed cake and wanted to do Japanese flavors.
Yeah, I'm planning on using matcha powder for the mousse.
It's not so much the ginger that I'm having trouble matching the icing to, but the green tea. So lemon goes ok w/ green tea?
What if I switched it around and did a mango filling instead and made green tea buttercream. Wouild that go ok w/ the ginger cake? Or should I just drop the green tea?
I've used lemon and raspberry with green tea. Strawberry as well. They all go. That's why I asked about the powder, that is what I have used and it works well. Even orange goes well, zest. (You can make a curd out of any of those fruit flavors, too, as fillings)
The mango and ginger would go well, but not with the green tea...I don't see those together.
Make sure you add plenty of ginger (if fresh) to the cake for the flavor to really come through.
The cake looks fabulous...it turned put really well.
I don't know if you would do this again, but in case you plan on making it more often or with other variations...there are little shapers for the rice with the nigiri (that are for actual sushi) that you could probably use.
Just a thought I had when I was looking at your pics.
I imagine your friend was thrilled!
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