July 27, 2010

Daring Bakers Swiss Swirl Ice Cream Cake


This month's Daring Bakers challenge was something I could really sink my teeth in to... ice cream cake!  And how fitting considering that it's National Ice Cream Month. 

The dessert is comprised of swiss roll cake slices encasing fudge sauce and two different flavors of  ice cream.  Decided to go a bit architectural with the cake component .  Rather than roll it up, as is tradition, I stacked the layers.  I really like the striped effect of the finished product.  

I used the mint chip and dulce de leche ice creams that I made recently for the filling and whipped up a quick fudge sauce to complete the dessert.  What a great challenge!
 

The July 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Sunita of Sunita’s world – life and food. Sunita challenged everyone to make an ice-cream filled Swiss roll that’s then used to make a bombe with hot fudge. Her recipe is based on an ice cream cake recipe from Taste of Home.-

The Swiss rolls cake

Preparation time- 10 minutes
Baking time- 10-12 minutes
Rolling and cooling time- at least 30 minutes
Filling-5-8 minutes
Filling and rolling- 5-10 minutes

Ingredients-
6 medium sized eggs
1 C / 225 gms caster sugar /8 oz+ extra for rolling
6 tblsp / 45gms/ a pinch over 1.5 oz of all purpose (plain) flour + 5 tblsp/40gm /a pinch under 1.5 oz of natural unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted together
2 tblsp /30ml / 1 fl oz of boiling water
a little oil for brushing the pans
For the filling-
2C / 500 mls/ 16 fl oz of whipping cream
1 vanilla pod, cut into small pieces of about ½ cm (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
5 tblsp / 70gms/2.5oz of caster sugar

Method-
  1. Pre heat the oven at 200 deg C /400 deg F approximately. Brush the baking pans ( 11 inches by 9 inches ) with a little oil and line with greaseproof baking paper. If you have just one pan, bake one cake and then let the pan cool completely before using it for the next cake.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, add the eggs and sugar and beat till very thick; when the beaters are lifted, it should leave a trail on the surface for at least 10 seconds.
  3. Add the flour mixture, in three batches and fold in gently with a spatula. Fold in the water.
  4. Divide the mixture among the two baking pans and spread it out evenly, into the corners of the pans.
  5. Place a pan in the centre of the pre heated oven and bake for about 10-12 minutes or till the centre is springy to the touch.
  6. Spread a kitchen towel on the counter and sprinkle a little caster sugar over it.
  7. Turn the cake on to the towel and peel away the baking paper. Trim any crisp edges.
  8. Starting from one of the shorter sides, start to make a roll with the towel going inside. Cool the wrapped roll on a rack, seam side down.
  9. Grind together the vanilla pieces and sugar in a food processer till nicely mixed together. If you are using vanilla extract, just grind the sugar on its own and then add the sugar and extract to the cream.
  10. In a large bowl, add the cream and vanilla-sugar mixture and beat till very thick.
  11. Divide the cream mixture between the completely cooled cakes.
  12. Open the rolls and spread the cream mixture, making sure it does not go right to the edges (a border of ½ an inch should be fine).
  13. Roll the cakes up again, this time without the towel. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge till needed, seam side down.
Mint  Chip Ice Cream
Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

12 comments:

  1. I absolutely love your execution! Something different than everyone else, and really just beautiful! Great job with the challenge!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I LOVE your presentation of this dessert!! It's so unique, very different! You did a wonderful job!

    ReplyDelete
  3. What an original idea, I love your creation! Amazing job!

    ReplyDelete
  4. What a lovely creation. I will be late on my post, but I can't do spirals b/c of my overheating oven. I doubt my cake will look as gorgeous as yours. Wow. Stunning.

    ReplyDelete
  5. like the presentation.. like layer cake :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. I used mint chip as well, love the interesting shape you chose.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Awesome presentation - I love it when people have different takes. Your flavours sounds great too.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Amazing presentation! I am impressed.

    ReplyDelete
  9. This looks fantastic!!I love all the layers!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Love your stripes! Nice job on the challenge!

    ReplyDelete
  11. what a lovely version! looks great :)

    ReplyDelete
  12. oh.. this is a gorgeous take on the July's challenge..
    I'm having one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments .. :))

    ReplyDelete

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...