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. To see the details visit: http://thedaringkitchen.com/.
I'm not usually a fan of this type of dessert but it definitely turned out to be a hit as the weather here on Long Island has been hot. My inspiration for the flavor profiles of this dessert stems from my all time favorite pastry - the cannoli. It probably be one of those foods that when asked what one food item I could take with me to a deserted island to live off of. Anyway, I made a chiffon cake and infused it with vanilla cinnamon sugar. The filling was my home-made cannoli cream; something I've been trying to perfect for quite some time. I have come to realize that the only way to achieve that Italian pastry shop consistency (which my mother believes comes from artificial ingredients) is to make my own ricotta cheese. It is so easy to make and really quite delicious that I just had to make it for this challenge. See my last post for the details. My two ice cream flavors were (home-made of course) pistachio and amaretto. For a filling in-between I used a chocolate ganache. Did it come out tasting like the dessert that makes me grin from ear-to-ear? Well, not really but it was very good and everyone here at home loved it.
I can't seem to get the photos right so I'm going to do next months challenge early and put a little more effort into. Looking forward to another challenge. Check back at the end of August for the details.
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