Mt. Beanpole Inspired Cake

If you played Nintendo games growing up, this cake will be so much fun to make!

Mena and I are so many things…

• Like our dad, we are fantastic at math.

• Like our grandpa, we are extremely creative.

• Like our Mom, we enjoy caring for our family and cooking.

• Like our grandma, we LOVE healthy recipes, nutrition, and learning about good meals and natural medicines.

• Like the characters from the movies we watch, we are motivated to work together (specifically Sam and Dean here), and constantly improve our life, workout, and pursue our dreams.

Combined, Mena and I always have the craziest ideas. We’ll see something and think “we can do that…but better?”

Yes! We accept the challenge and just do it.

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On our vacation to Universal’s Epic Universe, we ate at the Toadstool Cafe in Nintendo Land twice. We never ordered dessert, but we’ve seen the servers bring them out to other guests. From Peach’s “castle” cake, to the Mt. Beanpole layer cake, we were inspired to recreate the Mt. Beanpole one, but as an entire cake rather than a serving.

Peach's "castle" cake and the Mt. Beanpole Cake

We researched what type of cake it might have been and immediately put a recipe together: a triple layer sponge cake with three flavors — chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla; and then the best part: topping it with a silky, green matcha mousse.

The flavors were amazing together! None of them were overpowering or dominating the other. If you love matcha, then you know matcha and strawberry are literally two married flavors. Vanilla is very mild and technically a base flavor. Then there is the chocolate which simply adds an additional “bite”. Mena said it was like a Neapolitan cake.

For our recipe, we used three 8x8 inch square baking pans to replicate the shape of the cake from the park, but you could use 3 round 8 inch pans as well if that’s easier. Mena gets the credit for somehow creating this fantastic sponge cake! She added some Japanese baking techniques to help it stays fluffy and not dry out or become dense.

Now to the recipe…

our Mt. Beanpole Cake :D