There were times yesterday that I began to dislike this cake! How can something you have made over and over again, be so awkward? The moral of my story is ‘Do not bake when you are running around like a headless chicken and expect it to turn out perfect’. I’ve said it so many times, I really should listen!
Anyway, back to the bake – There was actually nothing wrong with either bake that I made yesterday – I can vouch for this as I ate more than my bodyweight in Swiss Roll yesterday and it was all light and gorgeous. Just not photo worthy. I was leaving the house within the hour to go to choose wedding dresses with my youngest sister and tried to stretch time by popping in a quick Swiss Roll – Now this recipe is quick but not even this one can be finished within 30 mins.
We are not the most romantic of households, it has to be said. This may well be the only nod to Valentines Day that we do – There’s plenty of love in our family, but not many hearts and flowers. I actually tagged Dermot into my Facebook status yesterday at the bridal shop, asking if we should do the marriage stuff all over again .. His response?..’Could you be bothered?!’ And they say romance is dead!
I piped the hearts and baked for 4 minutes before adding the rest of the mixture. My tip would be to use a Size 2 nozzle and make the heart shaped really defined. Make it look stupidly so – sharps points, the lot. I coloured 4 tbsp of the cake mixture (before adding the chocolate) with RED RED paste food colour.
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I just love this week’s featured Bake of the Week – Plum & Marzipan Braid from Hannah at Domestic Gothess.
Plenty of other delicious entries from around the blogging world too this week …
1. Delightful Apple Cinnamon Donuts from Winnie’s Blog
2. Also celebrating Valentines with some pretty pastel meringues is ET Speaks from home
3. Love the thought of these jam muffin donuts from Winnie’s Blog and even better that they are baked not fried.
4. You can imagine you are in Sicily with My Little italian Kitchen’s Sicilian Reginelle Biscuits
5. Happy Birthday to Julie’s son from Julie’s Family kitchen – He celebrated with a football cake
6. If you are after some crunch, try the Domestic Gothess’ Orange Cornmeal Biscuits
7. For the healthy ones amongst us, try Slow Cooked Pumpkin & Mango Oat Bars courtesy of Baking Queen 74
8. Galina at Chez Maximka tempted us with her Orange Angel Slices
9. Hey Cakes shared these lovely Cottage Cheese & Almond Rolls
10. Making a welcome return to Bake of the week with her Matcha Breakfast Cakes is Kirsty from Hijacked by Twins
11. Mummy Mishaps went super frugal with her 5p mincemeat in these flapjacks
Centre: Super tempting Malted Chocolate Bundt Cake from Chocolate Log Blog
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This Swiss Roll is definitely my favorite ever!!
I love Swiss-roll cake It’s a childhood cake here for everyone). and I made a similar to yours almost 2 years ago – we all loved it. I did use a different method though
Thanks for featuring my Baked Apple Cider and Cinnamon Donuts and my Jam Doughnut-Muffin, with sugar coating
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Have a great day and thank you for another party (will be back to check the other links)
It looks lovely, but as you said getting a picture perfect one is difficult. I am going to bake later so will be linking up again xx
To me your Swiss roll looks lush. I bet it tasted wonderful. I cannot even remember when I baked a Swiss roll.
i think your swiss roll looks wondeful and the hearts are so sweet and would make a perfect dessert for your loved one
thank you for mentioning my flapjacks x
Everything looks scrumptious as usual. Your swiss roll is very clever and that plum bread has me wanting to go and bake one straight away. Thanks for the round – up. Great collage.
Your swiss roll sounds and looks delicious 🙂 it’s been far too long since I last made one… And thank you so much for featuring my bread! x
We are a bit like you although this Valentines day we have a night away in London as we are going to a concert (that has nothing to do with valentines Day).
Oh my goodness Helen you are amazing! I love the idea of having hearts within the cake…that is just sooooo clever. And the pictures look wonderful, you don’t need to worry about a thing. I am also super impressed and jealous that Chocolate Log Blog managed to turn out a bundt cake looking so incredible. Mine ALWAYS stick!!
This looks amazing! No romance in our house, either – I got DH woodworking clamps for our anniversary! Must turn my mind to Valentine’s day though. Maybe cake is the answer…
Beautiful bakes, Helen. I haven’t been baking much as we are still eating Christmas goodies! Lots of inspiration here though.
This looks fantastic. I haven’t tried making a swiss roll yet.
This looks so yummy! might make one for the OH!
thanks for sharing 🙂 xx
Yum! That looks fantastic! I’ve never made a swiss roll but my husband would LOVE this for Vday!
Your roll looks delicious and so cute! Great idea :0)
Love your recipe – so beautiful and yummy sounding!
Thank you for featuring my recipe!
Have a lovely weekend,
Diana
I love your valentine swiss roll! I love romantic Valentine treats. All your bakings are lovely and delicious.
Thank you for hosting!
Whoops I just came along to link up and it is already closed 🙁
Wow, lovely Swiss roll. I mostly eat some salty versions of it but this white chocolate-raspberry combination seems perfect for me.