「バナナロールケーキ」Banana Rollcake

here's the post on one of my rollcakes made yesterday from Japanese hotcake mix. it was way easy! instead of add'n 100 ml water to make regular pancakes aka "hotcakes," the package recipe advised that with 200 ml water, you can make rollcakes.

so with 150 g hotcake mix, 1 egg & 200 ml water, i made 2 rollcakes - one banana with mascarpone cream & one with chestnut cream.

these hotcake rollcakes taste yummy in their own chewy & pancakey kinda way, but can not satisfy a craving for a real rollcake. still, they take less than 10 minutes from cook'n to cool'n to fill'n to roll'n to enjoy'n! =D

the chestnut one crack'd from being too thick, so no photos...=(

here's the banana mascarpone cream one:

and here's a shot of my batter cook'n stovetop in the tamagoyaki pan.

Hotcake Mix Rollcake

150 g hotcake mix

1 egg

200 ml water

1. mix all ingredients & heat on stove @ medium heat for 3 minutes.

2. flip the cake & press down the center, heat another 2 minutes.

3. let cake cool, fill, roll & enjoy!

Mascarpone Cream - mix equal portions of mascarpone cheese, whip'd cream & half portion of powder'd sugar, so 2:2:1 cheese:cream:sugar.

ENJOY!



「アンドーナッツ」Old Fashion'd Redbean Donuts

i ♥ ホットケーキミックス!!!!

Hot Cake Mix rocks!!! i just made 2 rollcakes & 8 donuts with it!!!

i made 2 mini roll cakes on the stovetop with the tamagoyaki (rectangular egg omelette) pan - one fill'd with mascarpone cream & banana, the other one fill'd with chestnut cream (if i'm not lazy, these will be in my next post).

then i was plan'n to make steam'd cakes with the hotcake mix, but didn't have any milk, so i made something else that the "pancake" mix can magically turn out in minutes - old fashion'd donuts!

  

 

i love these donuts! UBER easy to make! they're a tad salty, a tad sweet, but all so satisfying! i didn't coat them in sugar, but ate them dip'd in a pile of sugar. HaHaHa.

this is only my first-ever bag of Hotcake mix & i've only used half. i wonder how many bags i'll go through before i get bored of it. =D

Old Fashioned "Hotcake Mix" Donuts Fill'd with Red Bean Jam

Recipe yields 8 donuts

150 g Hotcake Mix

1 egg

20 g melt'd butter

Red bean jam (didn't measure, 2 teaspoons?)

1. mix hotcake mix, egg & butter with your hands

2. split dough in half, then in quarters, then in eighths

3. roll each ball of dough into a circle & flatten with hands

4. dab some redbean jam into center of dough & enclose it inside the dough
5. fry donuts in vegetable oil heat'd to about 350F (170C)
6. when donuts float to the top & become golden, they're done - 2-3 minutes

ENJOY!!!

「ピンクのケーキ」pretty in pink

had leftover chestnut cream from yesterday, so i baked another cake to use up the "marrons" cream. baked a 7" square cos it was too late to use big oven, had to use small conventional oven, had no idea what to do with it, so i cut into 4 pieces.

this yummy stuff import'd from France is a tad too sweet on its own, but would be perfect if match'd with whip'd cream (MONT BLANC!!! i will make u soon! tomorrow?...hehe)

stack'd & ready to be frost'd/pretty'd up!

DONE! YAY! =D

time for a quick photoshoot! =D

Souffle Roll SpongeCake Recipe

from Okashi Treats: Sweet Treats Made With Love by Keiko Ishida

1 egg

3 egg yolks

1 t vanilla extract

35 g unsalted butter

60 g pastry flour (i used cake flour)

60 g whole milk

3 egg whites

85 g castor (superfine) sugar (i used 60 g powder'd sugar)

1. preheat oven to 180 C (356 F). Line a 28 cm by 28 cm (11" x 11") flat square pan with parchment paper.

2. combine 1 egg, egg yolks & vanilla in a bowl, beat lightly & set aside.

3. in a small saucepan, melt butter & add flour, cook through. Transfer to a bowl & add the egg yolk mixture a little bit at a time & mix with a spatula. Add milk. Mix well. Strain batter & set aside.

4. make meringue. Beat egg whites until foamy, add half of the sugar. Beat a few more minutes and add the remaining sugar. Beat until glossy & stiff peaks form.

5. add 1/3 of the meringue to the batter. fold in gently. add remaining meringue & fold until incorporated. pour batter into pan & bake for 20 minutes.

6. cool the cake in a clean plastic bag so that it retains moisture.

Buttercream Recipe

from Okashi Treats: Sweet Treats Made With Love by Keiko Ishida

400 g unsalted butter, at room temperature

140 g egg whites (about 2 large eggs)

140 g icing (confectioner's) sugar

1 T flavor/liqueur (vanilla, orange, cherry, etc.)

1. beat butter until pale & creamy

2. beat egg whites until foamy, add half of the sugar. beat until meringue has some volume, add the rest of the sugar. beat until glossy & stiff peaks form.

3. add meringue to butter and mix thoroughly. add flavoring/color & fold well.

And of course, you can buy almost anything from amazon with free S&H including the yummylicious Sabaton France (Chestnuts) Marrons Spread used in this cake =D

「母の日」Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely, beautiful, caring, courageous, selfless & wonderful Mommies Everywhere!!! MOMMY - THANK YOU MUCH & I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

Celebrated Mommies' Day with my Mommy with a home-cook'd dinner & a homemade chestnut & buttercream swiss roll cake.

the cake is frost'd with vanilla buttercream & fill'd with SABATON chestnut cream. i got the idea of making a vertical swiss roll cake from Okashi by Keiko Ishida. i had want'd this book for the longest time after read'n about it from many bloggers' posts, but it took a while for amazon to stock up & when they did, i was ecstatic! it definitely didn't disappoint =D i follow'd the souffle swiss roll cake recipe from this book, the roll was definitely more moist & more foregiving to roll'n than my previous attempts @ roll'n a genoise or other "roll cake" recipes which broke apart as i roll'd. can't wait to try other recipes.

three of us shared the mini cake & still have 1/4 leftover due to the BIG dinner =D

「blushieと職場で」@ work with blushie =D

wednesday: created blushie to de-stress. friday: blushie accompanied me to work to keep my stress levels down. =D

「カップケーキの友達」cupcake buddies

baked some ghiradelli chocolate cupcakes, frost'd them with cream cheese frosting, gave them faces & names - blushie, megane & lelelelele - & even made a box for the triplets =D - tis how i de-stress after a miserable day of work =(