Strawberry Cream Swiss Roll

I was really excited to try that decorated Swiss roll. With my first batch, the cake didn't turn out so great (I used a recipe I found on this new cookbook I bought). The design/decoration got mixed up with the batter that I have no idea what design it was on the cake. I made the second batch using a different recipes (this recipes was the one I got from my lecturer during my pastry class). The cake turned out good, but the design was 'meh'.That was why I decided to cover that not-so-attractive design with lots of whipping cream, and made myself some Strawberry Cream Swiss Roll.

Strawberry Cream Swiss Roll

45g soft flour
25g corn flour
3g baking powder
30g ovalette (a type of sponge cake stabilizer)
120g castor sugar
5nos eggs
20ml water
60g melted butter
1-2 tsp vanilla essence
whipping cream
strawberry - cut into small cubes
strawberry sauce

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Melt butter. Set aside.
2. Add in all ingredients, except for butter into mixer. Beat well in about 5 minutes with wire whisk.
3. Fold in butter into cake batter.
4. You may take 1/4 batter and use it for design decoration on the Swiss roll
5. Pour batter into sheet tray and bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
6. Leave to cool.
7. Spread whipping cream on cake and sprinkle some strawberry on top.
8. Roll cake carefully.
9. Pipe more whipping cream on top and garnish with strawberry. You may drizzle strawberry sauce on top.

I haven't been posting more recipes this recently. My excuse would be that I was busy. But the truth was that I was lazy to write/upload photos of food I made. Hmm...

Homemade Strawberry Jam

Wow! I never knew that making your own homemade jam could be this easy! The ingredients are simple and they tasted even better than the one I bought over the supermarket.

A friend of mine gave me a package of strawberry from Cameron Highland. I kept them in the refrigerator for a couple days and it turned a bit mushy from overripe. I decided to make them into jam. I have not attempt to make any jam before, but the recipe looks very easy. I decided to give it a try. 

Homemade Strawberry Jam

200g strawberries
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

• Cut strawberries into half and put it in a bowl. Mash strawberries until half coarse.
• Transfer to a large skillet and stir in sugar and lemon juice.
• Cook over medium-high, stirring frequently. Bring the mixture to a full rolling boil or until jam is thickened and bubbles completely cover surface.
• Transfer jam to a jar and let cool to room temperature.
• To store, transfer jam to hot sterile jars. Seal jar and refrigerate.

Chocolate & Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Foodies by ai reverts back to pink! How do you like it? The banner was actually drawn by my little sister. I asked her to draw that picture for my blog, and she did. I thought it was quite alright, although she needed to improve more on perspective.

Anyway, I made this Chocolate and Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue for my brother's birthday. He turned 26 this year! Congratulation!

But, I couldn't decide between Vanilla or Chocolate. So, I made both for him. I thought I wanted to experiment on the checkered cake, once more. 

Yes, I made the checkered cake years ago. It was Vanilla and Chocolate with Coffee butter cream. I remember making them for my parent's anniversary :)

And the good thing about making a checkered cake is that, you'll get two cakes instead of one :) So, I make one for my family, and the other one for my brother to bring them to his office. It's part of my giveaway plan. But, the first cake turned out like this. It doesn't look as appetizing as I'm out of butter cream. And, it was too late to went out to buy more ingredients to make one.

I bought more ingredients and prepare more butter cream the next morning.  And this is how the cake looks like after decorated. I think it looks quite alright. What do you think about it?

• Vanilla Cake Recipe
• Chocolate Cake Recipe
• Swiss Meringue Butter cream Recipe (add in 1 cup of strawberry puree to make a Strawberry Swiss Meringue Butter cream.

Tiramisu with Strawberries

I LOVE strawberries. So, when I saw Tracie Moo from Bitter Sweet Flavor's Strawberry Tiramisu. (She made her Tiramisu in a wine glass, and it looks AMAZING!) I was tempted to make one. When I was in culinary school, most of my classmate was afraid to prepare this dessert because of it's difficulty. I never really got to try to prepare Tiramisu myself. It's always the other person, or the other group who got to be in charge in preparing this dessert.

I consulted this recipe I got from my pastry class, and decided to challenge myself to prepare this dessert. But, there's one big problem. I couldn't understand my own recipe, since there's no preparation method mentioned. There's only the ingredients needed and numbers of sequence. After a few minutes of staring at my note, I finally figure out the recipe, and my adventure began. 

Tiramisu

2.5 egg yolks (beaten)

60g castor sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

250g mascarpone cheese

40g whipped cream

10g gelatin powder

Ladies finger sponge (24 pieces)

Strong coffee

Strawberries - sliced. Set aside some for garnishing.

Cocoa Powder

Preparation:

1. Beat egg yolks, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl. Add in cream cheese and continue beating until creamy.

2. Fold in whipped cream, and add in gelatin powder.

3. Pour in coffee in a shallow dish, and dip in ladies finger sponge in strong coffee. Don't dip in the sponge too long in the coffee. 

4. Top the sponge with mascarpone cheese. Sprinkle some fresh strawberries on top. (Tracie Moo from Bitter Sweet Flavor used strawberry filling. But, I like them fresh.)

5. Top strawberries with another layer of coffee dipped sponge and mascarpone cheese. Sprinkle with cocoa powder.

6. Refrigerate for at least two hours.

7. Garnish with more strawberries before serving.

Strawberry Cheesecake

I made this on my brother request. It was for his friend (or girlfriend?). He wanted a cheesecake. I had some strawberry filling left, so, I decided to spread them generously on top of cheesecake. It looked so red and appetizing!

Here's the recipe!

Strawberry Cream Pie

When my little brother came back, he asked me to make him some macarons. As macarons used egg white, I was left with some egg yolks. I was planning to make some pies. Furthermore, my brother's birthday was just around the corner. So, I thought this might be a good idea to give away some pies to his friends as well.

I searched for a few pies recipe over the internet, and decided to try the strawberry cream pie which I found from The Cooking Photographer. I mean, the photo looks seriously appetizing! How can I resist the temptation from experimenting them? I decided to mix in some strawberry yogurt into the cream/filling, and they taste really, really good!

Head here for recipe: Strawberry Cream Pie

Anyway, my brother bought the pies to his office, on his birthday and look at how it end up! (He was riding his motorcycle. Can't really blame him! :))

Sarawak Layered Cake Charlotte

I made an attempt to prepare Strawberry Charlotte with Swiss Rolls. It didn't looked too good. My bowl wasn't deep enough, and the Swiss Rolls was sliced thickly. The strawberry filling was good, however.

So, when I see those Sarawak Layered Cake in the fridge, I was thinking of making a Charlotte again - using the layer cake. The cake was chocolate layered. I thought chocolate filling would be good!

They definitely looked good compared to my first Charlotte. I was smitten with this one. It wasn't too sweet, but the chocolate filling was really good. Somehow, I feel like I could gain a few kilos from eating this. Yes, it was that good~

The recipe is as below:

Chocolate Cake

My brother sent me an e-mail to me. Actually, it was forwarded. It was from his friend, asking if I could make a birthday cakes. He opt for a chocolate cake. This cake was frosted with chocolate glaze. Well, I always like chocolate glaze as compared to chocolate fudge. It was easier to pour and it looks neat. I decorate the cake with some strawberry and chocolate pocky, strawberry, sprinkles and Oreo's truffle.

Eating Out: Strawberry Ice Cream @ Cameron

Strawberry's hanging everywhere in that farm

Last week, I went to a trip to Cameron Highland with a few friends. We went to KHM Strawberry Farm to snap some pictures here and there for our assignment. Then, we bought some strawberry flavored ice-cream. I'm not much of a strawberry flavored ice-cream fan. In fact, when my mother bought those Neapolitan ice-creams, I'll always scoop out those chocolate and vanilla flavored ice-cream first, and avoiding those strawberry flavored one. (･_･ ) ( ･_･)

 Those oh-so-good strawberry ice-cream.

However, those ice-cream that I tasted at KHM strawberry farm is real good. Just imagine, savoring that strawberry ice-cream coupled with strawberry sauce on top, surrounded with the sweet scent of the strawberry farm. It sounds extremely good, right?

Strawberry jams on rack.

They also sell some scones with strawberry jams, but, with my limited budget, and times, I have to forget them. But, I did bought some strawberry jams. They tasted good as well. Maybe on my next visit, I'll try those scones and jams.  (*≧▽≦)

KHM Strawberry Farm

No. 9, Taman Sedia, 

39000 Tanah Rata, 

Cameron Highlands