TWD BWJ Rewind: Raspberry Swirls

December 29, 2015 at 4:54 pm | Posted in breakfast things, BWJ, cakes & tortes, groups, layer cakes, petit fours, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 7 Comments
Tags: baking, cake

Happy New Year, friends! I want to start 2016 fresh, so it’s time for me to take care of a few pesky things that I’ve left in limbo over the last couple of months. One is Flo Braker’s Raspberry Swirls recipe, which I actually made along with the group in the fall and then never posted. This uses a sheet of genoise that’s been cut and coated with raspberry jam and then rolled up jelly-roll style, the jam forming a little red curlicue in the middle. Like Braker’s Miniature Florentine Squares or Glazed Mini-Rounds her Raspberry Swirls are meant to be cut into one or two bite petits fours, but after I rolled them, I decided to leave them more the size of HoHos (or Yodels or Swiss Rolls, depending on your childhood treat preference). Indeed, these were good…once I glazed them in chocolate and dipped them in coconut and pistachios, they actually reminded me of a rolled up Lamington, an idea I would like to explore further (possibly for Australia Day??).

For the recipe, see Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll to see if anyone else did a rewind this week, and see the links page from the Raspberry Swirls week a few months ago!

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These look fun and delicious, so thanks for the inspiration! I have Baking with Julia, but I’m feeling like I need to revisit it now. 🙂

Comment by suzanne— January 1, 2016 #

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These are so very lovely and delicious looking. Thanks for sharing and Happy 2016.

Comment by Teresa Blackburn— January 3, 2016 #

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Happy New Year! These look delicious and the reference to HoHos has been intrigued. Looking forward to more baking with the group.

Comment by Diane Zwang— January 3, 2016 #

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I was totally thinking Swiss Rolls when I saw them! Albeit grown up, super-fancy ones. Great execution!

Comment by Margaret @approachingfood— January 3, 2016 #

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Yours looks amazing as always. They did look like a rather fancy ho-ho!

Comment by sunshine x 2— January 4, 2016 #

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Yum!

Comment by KAROLIINA KAZI— April 14, 2016 #

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These look stunning – loving the colours, those pops of green amongst the white!

Comment by All Thyme Favourites— April 18, 2016 #

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