roll cake | Rabbitcancook

This year I did not managed to make any bento with the Chinese New Year theme, so to compensate my lack of creative I decided to deconstruct the Chinese New Year cakes into bento.

The Lion’s heads were of roll cake decorated with cheese, while for the body I use marble cake (I love how the texture of the marble cake looks perfect for the lion’s body and the paws , especially the Lion at the bottom part) .

Those stripes looks cakes were Kue Lapis (aka Layered Cake) is one of the most to have cake for Chinese New Year and a quite popular cake in Indonesia. It tooks lots of time and effort to bake the cakes layer by layer.

I choose and cut the different color/darker layer of the layered cake to make the facial expression of the Lions.

Bento # 148 – Lions bento

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR ALL

Wish you a prosperous and blessed Snake Year Ahead.

Gong Xi Fa Cai…

Xin Nian Kuai Le…

I always enjoy eating Japanese style cake , love those soft and fluffy cake texture with it’s light yet delicious cream.

So when I heard about this new cake shop in town which specialized in Japanese roll cake I did not waste my time and immediately went there and try.

Located in the shop house in Pantai Indah Kapuk residential complex at South Jakarta is a nice and cozy place called Rati Rati. This cake shop is manage by an outstanding Japanese chef who had won many awards back there in Japan (referring to many awards and achievement and acknowledgement displayed in the store). Store it self is not too big but clean, dominated with white decoration and it has both outdoor and indoor sitting place. I did not have the chance to take the picture of the store because it was not my intention to write any review. Went there during my lunch break and need to get back to work, so I bought those cakes for take away and to enjoy at later part.

I had a hard time to choose because all those cakes looks very attractive and yummy. The good part is customer can buy either in roll or slice. After browsing around I decided to follow to the waitress advice by choosing : 1 slice of Strawberry Cardinal (said to be the best seller) and a slice of each Blueberry, Matcha and Choco roll cake .

Price per slice range from Rp 28,000 ( aprox USD 3/slice).

Cardinal Strawberry

Cardinal strawberry is the only cake which is not a roll cake type. At a glance it look a bit like pastry puff , the cake itself does taste like a cake, not puff, with a crunchy outer layer and soft light cake texture inside. Love the not too sweat and light cream with fresh strawberry inside. A dash of caster sugar sprinkle at the top part add balance the overall not too sweet cake.