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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.
Katrina
Ooh, that looks delicious, especially with the chocolate drizzled on a slice of it.
bake in paris
Very beautiful color combination. Come to think of it, I should have use made strawberry ice cream instead of vanilla 🙂
Sawadee from bangkok,
Kris
Cyndy
Oh how I wish my spoon would go thru the screen! This is beautiful Barbara!
Jaime
what a beautiful neopolitan cake! so creative.
grace
Wow! This looks like it came out great. I bet it tasted just as good. Bravo 🙂
Karen
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
Nachiketa
Looks fabulous… 🙂 Amazing colours n flavours….The drizzles add a punch….Daring Baker – Swiss Swirl Icecream CakeCheers,The Variable, Crazy Over Desserts – NachiketaCatch me on facebook @ Crazy Over Desserts
lisaiscooking
This is an impressive dessert! I've never made a Swiss roll, and now I'm inspired to try it.
Cookin' Canuck
What a pretty cake! This would be perfect at any summertime barbecue.
Carrian
love that! so pretty!
Nutmeg Nanny
How delicious! I feel horrible since I sorta stopped doing Daring Bakers. I need to get back into the swing of things!
Maria
This is my kind of cake! Love it!
s
this looks so delish….sooo gorgeous!
shaz
Gorgeous bombe, Barbara! Aand the strawberry jam sounds delicious even if it was icy.
Lisa
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!
Cristie
What a showy dessert, and lovely for a summer night. I love all your flavor choices.
GourmAndrea
Mmmm Your cake looks delish, so pretty, great job!!!
Sue
It's beautiful, Barbara! That must have been so satisfying to see it all come together so perfectly!
Memória
¡Bárbara, qué fantástico! Tu pastel tiene un aspecto buenísimo. Me gusta que hayas usado fresas en lugar de chocolate. ¡Qué delicia!
Cathy
What an impressive dessert, Barbara. You've elevated a Swiss roll to a whole new level. Your strawberry jam is the perfect filling.