3D Blue Blossom Swiss Roll

This is my last swiss roll post in the month. Always loving the idea to get the fresh organic stuff from the gardens straightaway instead of buying the artificial food coloring for decorating my swiss roll today.

I’ve always fond of the image of  blue pea flowers as they are organic and beautiful at the same time. It’s a strong and recognizable image among all the green leaves. In my house's garden, I can find plenty of blue pea flowers in those creeper plant growing around. So when I was wondering how to make blue color on my cake, I came up with this idea quickly. Using the blue pea flowers as my decoration on the swiss roll as well as using its color to dye my whipping cream inside-neath.

Ingredients & Method

Refer to my previous post titled "Vanilla Swiss Roll" with extra Blue pea flowers

This little blue flower is common ingredient used as natural food dye for making kuehs such as pulut tai tai and nasi kerabu (Origin from Kelantan). Squeeze 10-15 flowers with 5 tablespoon of water. Knead then filtered, the water was ready to be used to give color to my whip cream. See the picture below - Freshly plucked from my home's garden..

I'm submitting this entry to this month's Aspiring Bakers #9 themed 'Swiss Rolling Good Times' hosted by 'Obsessedly Involved With Food' (Details here).

Triangle Swiss Roll

Wonder why all the swiss roll must be rolled into round shape since it is invented. Dare to be different, I creatively roll it into TRIANGLE shape without any triangle mold's help. I admit that it is extremely difficult which makes the unsatisfactory result.

Lesson learnt: I should use the butter cream or icing sugar to coat the swiss roll surface. It makes my swiss roll full of my finger prints (melted due to the weather) when I'm trying to cut it into slices. Anyhow, delighted with this first attempt -  triangle shape of swiss roll, at least something different and unique.

Ingredients & Method

Refer to my previous post titled "Vanilla Swiss Roll" with extra kiwi fruits

Below is the interesting Swiss Roll's history and background which excerpted from Wikipedia:
Interesting fact: Swiss roll is not origin from Switzerland even it sounds alike.

"A Swiss roll or jelly roll is a type of sponge cake roll. The thin cake is made of eggs, flour and sugar and baked in a very shallow rectangular baking tray, called a sheet pan. The cake is removed from the pan and spread with jam or buttercream, rolled up, and served in circular slices. The origins of the term "Swiss" roll are unclear and the cake originated in Central Europe and not Switzerland. It is a traditional German, Hungarian and probably Austrian type of cake. The shape of the Swiss roll has inspired usage of the term as a descriptive term in other fields, such as in optics."

Sorry for the rough look of my swiss roll below (I know it is not perfect), anyhow this swiss roll taste delicious, perhaps it is due to the freshness of kiwi fruit combination.

I'm submitting this entry to this month's Aspiring Bakers #9 themed 'Swiss Rolling Good Times' hosted by 'Obsessedly Involved With Food' (Details here).

For Hankerie: Something girly (Miow X3~~~)

Few more days to roll my swiss roll before July ends.. Tend to play with those natural colors as much as possible in the swiss roll with my own creativity. Well, today i plan to bake and contribute for my own website which almost reaching the 1 month anniversary. Thanks for my loyal followers and fans, your comments and constructive feedback really help me to grow further.

Ingredients & Method

Refer to previous post titled "Creative Strawberry Swiss Roll"

Specially drew for my own website named "Hankerie" and the result was satisfactory. For those who really keen to know how I drew these cute cartoon, I am using freehand to draw it by using mirror image. This Hello Kitty strawberry swiss roll uses natural strawberry puree, coffee powder and green tea powder. It is definitely healthy swiss roll albeit its appearance looks nice and tempting :)

I'm submitting this entry to this month's Aspiring Bakers #9 themed 'Swiss Rolling Good Times' hosted by 'Obsessedly Involved With Food' (Details here).

Snoopy lying on my Swiss Roll

I love the idea of swiss roll. Minimum ingredients, no complicated recipes needed after making it several times. Besides that, it only require 10 minutes baking time, be it dress it or not. It tastes superb in anyway. Play around with the flavours that I like as the choices are indeed unlimited. Today I made the choice for a healthier way to omit fattening whipping cream, and substitute it with my Paris's Natural Strawberry jam. For matching this red colour jam, I used green tea powder to make my Swiss roll body Green, which representing my Snoopy lying and relaxing on the field.

Ingredients & Method

Refer to previous post titled "Creative Strawberry Swiss Roll"

 Specially drew the Snoopy for my sister-in-law who loves Snoopy so much.


I'm submitting this entry to this month's Aspiring Bakers #9 themed 'Swiss Rolling Good Times' hosted by 'Obsessedly Involved With Food' (Details here).

Teddy Bear on Swiss Roll?

Do you spot the teddy bear on the swiss roll? The ones you see below is how my swiss rolls have evolved as my decorating skills improved from time to time. More exciting design coming soon, I'm really so into it now. If you can dream/name it, I want to make it onto a swiss roll!!!

Ingredients & Method

Refer to previous post titled "Creative Strawberry Swiss Roll"

See the swiss roll's top view

I'm submitting this entry to this month's Aspiring Bakers #9 themed 'Swiss Rolling Good Times' hosted by 'Obsessedly Involved With Food' (Details here).