The July 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Sunita of Sunita’s world – life and food. Sunita challenged everyone to make an ice-cream filled Swiss roll that’s then used to make a bombe with hot fudge. Her recipe is based on an ice cream cake recipe from Taste of Home.
This challenge had lot of steps, but everything was easy, really fun to make and it looked impressive. I decided to go with a Neapolitan ice cream cake and use my favorite strawberry ice cream recipe. I had planned to make vanilla bean ice cream as well, but ran out of time and bought some Dreyers Vanilla Bean to use instead. I substituted a layer of my strawberry freezer jam for the hot fudge layer. Another change I made was instead of making two separate cake rolls as called for in the recipe. I just made one in an 18″x12″ sheet pan, which worked out very well.
The Taste of Home recipe uses Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls and ice cream and hot fudge from the grocery store, so it would be really easy to whip up this impressive looking dessert without even baking.
The flavor combination was fabulous, but the freezer jam was a bit too icy and I think it would be better to use a strawberry filling with a higher sugar content. I was a little leery about the sponge cake part of the challenge because it had so little flour, but the light airy texture of the cake was perfect when frozen, not icy at all and nice and chocolatey – a perfect match with the ice cream. I tried to cut it after only a couple of hours, but it was way too soft. In our hot summer weather it required an overnight stay in the freezer to firm up.
Visit the Daring Kitchen Recipe Achieve for the recipes, instructions and step by step photographs. Visit the Daring Bakers Blogroll to see the scrumptious Ice Cream Cakes the other Daring Bakers created. Thanks Sunita for a fun challenge. I recently bought a new ice cream maker, so it was fun to put it to good use.
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Wow this really does look delicious Barbara! Well done! As you know – I copped out on mine totally this month!!!
That's an awesome bomb Barbara. Love the idea of using strawberry jam in the center!!!
just awesome…..looks so gorgeous and tempting….
Glad you could join in the fun, Barbara, your bombe looks beautiful.
Wow! What a gorgeous and decadent dessert! I bet everyone was wowed with it's beauty.
Beautiful Barbara, it's the perfect slice of heaven if I may say
A piece of heaven! yum
It's beautiful! Love the layers of colours!
Absolutely gorgeous! Love the pink!
Your bombe is the bomb!
I love your flavor combination.
Mimi
That's impressive. I love the changes that you made!
I love the neapolitan idea and your first pic looks absolutely amazing! Nice job on the challenge!
What beautiful dessert. What kind of ice cream maker did you buy? I'm in the market for a new one as well.
Wow, this is stunning! I bet it would be my hubby's dream dessert…I'm going to have to make it for him!
That is SO pretty mum! I wish I had enough time to do this month's challenge, it looks like lots of fun!
xxx
Barbara, your bomb is amazing! I love the look of the dark choc cake with the strawberry and vanilla icecream with the dark sauce drizzled over. YUM!!!! What is freezer jam?
BTW Thanks for your lovely comments!
My goodness this looks beautiful and delicious! I want a piece now!
What a beauty that is Barbara! I love how you added the strawberry jam too. Totally delicious!
i love your bomb..lol!..sounds weird..but ya.. it's so pretty on the inside! Great job!
What an impressive dessert, Barbara. You've elevated a Swiss roll to a whole new level. Your strawberry jam is the perfect filling.
¡Bárbara, qué fantástico! Tu pastel tiene un aspecto buenísimo. Me gusta que hayas usado fresas en lugar de chocolate. ¡Qué delicia!
It's beautiful, Barbara! That must have been so satisfying to see it all come together so perfectly!
Mmmm Your cake looks delish, so pretty, great job!!!
What a showy dessert, and lovely for a summer night. I love all your flavor choices.
Barb..your bombe is just gorgeous and the photos and presentation (especially love the drizzles of chocolate sauce)are beautiful. I love a jam filling over a cream filling in any kind of cake roll..so I'd be devouring that in no time!
Gorgeous bombe, Barbara! Aand the strawberry jam sounds delicious even if it was icy.
this looks so delish….sooo gorgeous!
Looks fabulous…
Amazing colours n flavours….
The drizzles add a punch….
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This is my kind of cake! Love it!
How delicious! I feel horrible since I sorta stopped doing Daring Bakers. I need to get back into the swing of things!
love that! so pretty!
What a pretty cake! This would be perfect at any summertime barbecue.
This is an impressive dessert! I've never made a Swiss roll, and now I'm inspired to try it.
I was recently lucky enough to be Barbara's house guest for a few days, therefore got to try this wonderful dessert. What a treat to get to experience all the creative, yummy dishes that she makes. She amazes me! Thanks Sis
Wow! This looks like it came out great. I bet it tasted just as good. Bravo
what a beautiful neopolitan cake! so creative.
Oh how I wish my spoon would go thru the screen! This is beautiful Barbara!
Very beautiful color combination. Come to think of it, I should have use made strawberry ice cream instead of vanilla
Sawadee from bangkok,
Kris
Ooh, that looks delicious, especially with the chocolate drizzled on a slice of it.
Waw!! that ice cream cake looks just DIVINE, Barbara!
Waw!! It is certainly a masterpiece!
Just so beautiful & I bet so flavourful too!
hummm looks great … well done
What a fun take on the challenge, Barbara. And you did a fabulous job. I sure wish I had that in my freezer right now!
Barbara…in general, I'm am so impressed by what the daring bakers come up with. I've already seen a few…and yours certainly is in the top 5 running. Great job…applause ;o)
Ciao for now and have a great weekend,
Claudia
Spectacular! (As always.)
Donna
Your cake is beautiful! I love your choice of flavors. Great job!
Cheers,
Rosa
wow this is magnificent great job
yours looks great barbara! i have looked at a few and this lloks great!
Barbara, it's amazing!!! You did an incredible job, just gorgeous! You are THE baker!
Barbara…very nice flavours all in one very accomplished challenge. Big applause ;o)
Ciao for now,
Claudia