Friday, March 19, 2010

Japanese strawberry shortcake



Unlike an American strawberry shortcake which uses biscuit, this Japanese version actually uses sponge cake base. Instead of regular whipping cream, I used Rich's Better cream for these 2 cakes to accommodate non-dairy eaters.

Through this, also found out that either whipping cream or Better cream is a lot harder to smooth out since it's non crusting and shows all kinds of imperfection.

Green Tea Mousse Cake




This is a cake I learned when stayed in Japan. It's a green tea sponge cake using matcha (green tea powder) with custard mousse and chocolate crunch cookie in the middle.

Doesn't it look great? I was extremely happy how it turned out!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Strawberry Swiss Roll


Made this sometime ago but just discovered the pictures:)
This is just a basic vanilla sponge cake base with whipped cream and strawberry swiss roll.