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.
Mine is based on a traditional Australian cake - the lamington. For those who don't know, a lamington is a sponge cake covered in chocolate icing and covered in desiccated coconut. Sometimes it will also be filled with cream and raspberry jam.
I made a plain sponge with a chocolate icing and coconut filling. My first ice cream was the challenge recipe for vanilla ice cream. However, I added raspberries for extra tartness and symbolically as the jam. I also used the challenge recipe for the chocolate fudge sauce and made my own recipe for coconut ice cream.
It was a great challenge and everyone who tasted it really loved the flavours and believed it was reminicent of a lamington. Unfortunately I had trouble with the challenge recipe for the sponge and had to redo it with my own trusted Women's Weekly Cakes cookbook recipe. The second version was much more successful. I followed some other members' advice and added a tablespoon of alcohol to the fudge sauce and this made it nice and runny, maybe even too much so.
I didn't know we had a National Lamington Day!!! Well, that would be fun! I love your take on the icecream cake. It muste be delicous! I love lamingtons. I too, wasn't particularly fussed on the challenge recipe for the sponge. I used that for my first cake but the next one I did with the Women's Weekly Cakes cookbook. I really like that recipe and prefer the texture.
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