For Children's Day! A Koinobori Cake That Kids Will Love
- 1 piece, 2-3 cm thick 18 cm diameter plain sponge cake
- 200 ml Heavy cream
- 50 grams Condensed milk
- 20 berries Strawberries (medium size)
- 1 Chocolate decorating pen
- Put the heavy cream and condensed milk in a bowl held over ice water, and whip with a handheld mixer (You can use 1 to 2 tablespoons of sugar instead of the condensed milk).
- Slice the sponge cake 1 to 1.5 cm thick.
- I used the sponge cake recipe here:!
- Place the sliced sponge cake on a piece of kitchen parchment paper about the size of an A4 sheet (or a U.S. letter-sized sheet).
- Spread the surface thinly with whipped cream.
- Place a de-hulled strawberry in the middle of the sponge cake sideways, and place two more strawberries, one on each side of the first.
- (Place the side strawberries with the pointed ends facing outwards.)
- Spread more whipped cream around the strawberries so that they are hidden.
- Since the whipped cream is spread on the strawberries, the sides will be lower.
- Lift up the paper to roll the cake from front to back.
- Press the roll lightly to form it with the seam on the bottom.
- (Don't press down on the cake - try to make it as high or tall as possible!)
- Spread the paper out.
- (The cake is delicious eaten at this stage too!
- It looks like this from the side.
- Press the open end lightly from the sides with both hands to close it up.
- From the top it will look like this.
- Spread whipped cream thinly on the surface.
- Cut in half.
- Slice some strawberries into 2 mm thick round slices.
- If the strawberry slices are too thick, they'll fall off the cake!
- Press the sliced strawberries onto the cake starting from the thin ends as if they're fish scales.
- Leave the area around the thicker center of the halved cake uncovered.
- Draw on eyes on the uncovered parts of the cake using a chocolate decorating pen.
- Draw the eyes on the sides, not on the top!
- From the cut side, it looks like the carp has an open mouth.
- I referred to"3 Ingredients!
- Egg, Sugar, and Flour Spongecake"
- You can make this cake with sliced bananas, as shown in"For Children's Day!
- Chocolate Banana Koinobiri Cake"
diameter, condensed milk, strawberries, chocolate decorating pen
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/150019-for-childrens-day-a-koinobori-cake-that-kids-will-love (may not work)