Chocolate Swiss Roll

It's been raining since the early morning on Sunday, and after coming back from the wholesale vegetables market with Hubby, we had a simple breakfast at the mall nearby, and went straight home. Rainy days always makes me very lazy and I try to stay indoor as much as I can, hehe, just love to cuddle up with my dog and enjoy a hot cup of coffee, and chase my K-series 😛😛😛

However, sometimes, the kids will make some request for this and that, and I'm always happy to receive such orders. So, Angel made a request to bake her Chocolate Swiss Roll and Hubby, before leaving to work, said to bake anything that he can have for breakfast tomorrow morning. To fulfill their wishes, I made a Chocolate Swiss Roll and also a Taiwanese Castella Sponge Cake , both happens to be their favourites.

I only recently learnt how to make Swiss Rolls, and have been practicing quite a bit, as the baking, temperature controlling and the rolling still needs a bit of a practice. Therefore, this Chocolate Swiss Roll is my first time too, but basically I used the same recipe as the Vanilla Swiss Roll, just add 2 tablespoons of unsweetened Cocoa Powder to the flour.

Here is the recipe card for you , hope you take some time to bake one, and let me know how you like it. 

Note : Please kindly monitor your own oven temperature as some bakers told me to bake at the upper rack for 10 mins @ 150C, then bring the rack down to the middle and bake at 170 for another 10 mins. But , still I would suggest that you learn your own oven's temperature as it's all varies. 

Till then, Happy baking! 

Hurricane Swiss Roll ~ Bamboo Charcoal

Oh dear, now that I'm aware, I haven't been posting for a few months, due to the busy schedule , you know, year end and new year......all kinds of agendas coming up, datelines to meet and things to prepare for the new year 2019. Anyway, it's all finally over, and life has come back to the normal pace, and just a glimpse of an eye, first quarter is done!!

In fact, during those MIA times, I did bake quite a bit, just that it never crosses my mind to have it recorded down and you know, snap a pic before eating it, not in that kinda mood at that time, cos it's always so rush. Sorry, my sincere apologies, but I promised I'll make it up to you all, one by one, 😂😅

So, I'll start of with this Hurricane Swiss Roll, as it was a hottie 'talk of the town' last year and I saw endless postings from bakers on colourful hurricane swiss rolls daily in social media. So, of course, I wouldn't want to miss that chance to get my hands together and drew up some hurricane patterns, but my first one was a disaster as I can't remember which end I started drawing and which end I ended, ALAS!!! I had the pattern switched and the hurricane was missing 😓😑 Well, I believe in practice makes perfect, so I did not give up, and gave it another try, and the second one was a success, bbbbbuuuutttt.....
before I decided to snap a pic of it, I already slashed it as I couldn't wait to see if I got the pattern right this time, you know, after the first incident, you can't wait to see the result of the second one.

Ahhhhh, WTH! This one, this time, I am very confident that it'll turn out pretty, so I waited patiently to only cut it after all those photo shooting, hehe 😜 and here it is, 
ta-dah!!!! Presenting you my Bamboo Charcoal Hurricane Swiss Roll 😘😋

Give it a try, it is fun and in fact very amusing when you are making it. I don't know about you, but I always think back to the very first hurricane swiss roll, you know like "d" creator of this Hurricane swiss roll, he/she must be a creative and artistic person, I meant, how did it occur to him/her to have an art incorporated into a Swiss roll? I'm shocked too 😮😮

Anyway, here is the recipe and instructions, you may download it here and here.

Happy Baking and let me know how you like this Hurricane Swiss Roll!