A soft sponge cake and chocolate ganache creamy texture of this Tiger Skin Swiss Roll you may like to try ~ Enjoy!
Ingredients:
Prepare 2 pcs – 12 x 12″lined square tray.
Tiger Skin sponge
- 6 Egg yolks
- 1 Egg white
- 45g Self Raising Flour
- 50g Caster sugar or Icing sugar
- 1/2 tsp SP (cake stabilizer)
- 1/4 tsp Egg yellow coloring
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 20g Melted butter
- Use high speed to whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, egg yellow coloring and SP till pale and fluffy.
- Then use hand whisk to mix in self raising flour and lastly pour in melted butter.
- Pour batter into prepared tray and put at the center rack of the oven , bake at preheated oven at 200C for 10-12 mins.
- Remove sponge cake from tray immediately after baked and leave to cool.
Chocolate Sponge
- 3 Egg yolks
- 2 Egg whites
- 75g Sugar
- 50g All purpose flour (Plain flour) – sifted
- 12g Corn flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp SP (cake stabilizer)
- 1 tbsp Ice water
- 30g Melted butter
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 2 tsp Chocolate paste
- Use high speed to whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla extract and SP till pale and fluffy.
- Lower speed, add in flour ingredients and ice water follow by chocolate paste, mix well.
- Lastly add in melted butter.
- Pour batter into prepared tray and put at the center rack of the oven, bake at preheated oven 200C for 10-12 mins.
- Remove sponge cake immediately after baked and leave to cool, then gently tear away the sponge cake skin with your finger tips.
- Due to the chocolate sponge is too soft to handle, cut the sponge cake into half.
Ganache Cream filling (prepare this before the sponge cake)
- 125g Semi sweet chocolate
- 20g Butter
- 90g Whipping cream
- Chop semi sweet chocolate into smaller pieces and put it in a bowl together with the butter.
- Boil whipping cream at medium heat and pour on the chocolate pieces. Use hand whisk to stir till chocolate melted and smooth, leave to cool.
- Put ganache cream in fridge for few mins till semi set, stir well and spread on sponge cake.
Assemble:
- Place the tiger skin sponge (skin facing down) with a large baking sheet below.
- Spread ganache cream evenly on it and place the two half chocolate sponge on top vertically side by side. Spread another layer of ganache cream on it ~not too thick~ then roll it up and wrap with the baking sheet.
- Put the roll in the fridge for the ganache cream to set for about an hour.
- Dip your knife in hot water and quickly dry it off before each cut.
Kitchen note: Use butter cream or jam to substitute the chocolate ganache cream as you like
