Banana Swiss Roll

These days, I am indulged in making of Swiss roll and I made this banana Swiss roll on last Sunday . My intention was to make a strawberry Swiss roll, however I don't have any strawberry ready in hand ,so I just replaced with banana. Thus, it became "Banana Swiss roll" lol. In fact, this is my 3rd Swiss roll and my second one was match Swiss roll. As I don't really like the texture of the Matcha Swiss roll, I didn't post it on the blog.

Here is the recipe and method for banana Swiss roll.




Ingredients (for 8"x11" baking pan)

• 3 eggs
• 60g caster sugar
• 30 ml of corn oil
  
• 80g of all purpose flour
  
• 1/8 tsp of cream of tar tar
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 2 Tbs of milk
• 2 drops of red coloring
  

Method

1. Sift the flour, cream of tar tar and baking powder in a bowl. Set aside.
   
2. In a mixing bowl, beat the egg for about 2 minutes. Add in sugar, red coloring and beat the mixture till smooth and creamy (ribbon like texture).
   
3. Add the flour mixture (I added them in 2 separations),milk and vanilla extract into number (2). Mix well till it comes to a thick paste.
4. Add the corn oil in and mix well gently using spatula.
5. Pour the batter into (8"x11") baking pan and bake in 170 degree C preheated oven for 14 mins.
6. Leave the sponge layer to cool completely in the baking pan.
7. Spread whipped cream and place some banana (diced) on top.
   
8. Roll up gently using parchment paper.
9. Ready to serve. Enjoy!

Chocolate Swiss Roll

I was almost giving up of making Swiss roll as my previous attempts encountered many problems like serious cracking while rolling, the sponge layer was so dense and etc, etc,. There were times that the base of the cake was so hard (like a slab of rubber) that whole cake need to be discarded. Spent a lot of time, efforts and ingredients ,nevertheless outcome was "zero" . How disappointing!

But today, I tried slightly different method and I managed to make it successfully. Thanks HBS for the Swiss roll recipe. Original recipe didn't call for "cream of tartar" however I just add 1/8 tsp in order to make the sponge layer lighter. For the filling , I used some whipped cream and choco chips instead strawberries.

Ingredients (for 9x11 baking pan)

• 3 eggs ( separated)
• 60g caster sugar
• 30g unsalted butter (melted)
• 20g cocoa powder
• 10g of plain flour
• 1/8 tsp of cream of tar tar

Method

1. In a mixing bowl, beat the egg yolks until smooth and creamy. Add in the flour and cocoa powder (sieved). Mix well till it comes to a thick paste.
2. In a mixer, whisk egg whites until white and frothy. Add remaining sugar and continue to mix until stiff.
3. Add 1/3 of the egg white to the egg yolk mixture and mix till the batter is less dense.
4. Mix the balanced egg whites with number (4).
5. Add the melted butter in and mix well gently using spatula.
6. Pour the batter into (9"x11") baking pan and bake in 180 degree C preheated oven for 15 mins.
   
7. After baked.
8. Spread whipped cream (100ml) and sprinkle some choco chips on top.
9. Roll up gently using parchment paper.
10. Ready to serve. Enjoy!