Happy Birthday, Tina!

I did it! I completed all the amazing gifts I wanted to make my sister's 21st birthday truly special! Now all I have to do is figure out how I'm going to get this all to Red Lobster. :) 

If you want to learn how to make  this amazing sushi cake go to my post Sushi Birthday Cake. 

As well for the bouquet and the charms that are dangling from it. Those can be found at my  More Clay Creations post.

Of course I didn't make whatever what was in the Crate and Barrel box. It's sushi dishes. I made the sushi jewelry myself and you can find the tutorial for that at Easy DIY Clay Creations. I made them from dry clay not polymer. The box is an origami box and I just placed batting squares to protect the jewelry. You can find that tutorial here Paper Box by Instructables. It's very easy a very well explained here. Finally the cute bow on the top of the box was found at Milomade. Her's was out of paper, but I decided to make mine out of ribbon. What's great is you can even use this tutorial to make a bow for your hair!  

Sushi Birthday Cake!

Ok it only took me 3 tries but I finally accomplished the recipe I have long been waiting to try, Trimisushi by Sprinkle Bakes. I made a few adjustment to fit me and my needs for this recipe, but I am so excited. I cannot wait to see my sister's face when she see these on her birthday!

You will need:

Chocolate Roulade:

• 1/2 cup of flour
• 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa
• 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 1 tbsp. water

Cream Cheese Filling:

• 1 cup of cream cheese
• 1 tbsp. confectioners sugar
• 1 tbsp. coffee liquer

Mocha Sauce( Optional)

• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 1/4 cup water
• 1 1/2 tsp of instant coffee
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

 Make sure when you get cocoa powder that it's unsweetened and not sweetened. I know this sounds dumb and I know myself that I should know this, but for some reason I couldn't get that through my head the first two times I did it and it made my recipe whole lot harder then it had to be. Now I really know what they mean about baking being so precise. 

Ok lets get started shall we. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. Now butter a 9x13 pan and place a parchment paper in it. Also take two towels and sprinkle confectioners sugar for a later time.  Start by combining the first three ingredients in a small bowl and then set aside. Now place the eggs, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl and mix til its three times it's size. Once you've done that gently fold the flour mixture into the egg mixture. Now fold in  the melted butter and water.Take the batter and pour it in your pan evenly with a spatula. Bake for 10 minutes. Turn half way through baking.

Once it it done baking quickly turn it out onto a cooling rack and cut lengthwise down the middle. Place the two pieces each on their own towel and roll them. Let them cool for about 15 minutes. this would be good time to make the Cream Cheese Filling and do clean up.

The filling is basic, all you need to do is combine all the ingredients and your done!

Now that the cake part has cooled gently unroll and spread the filling inside. Re-roll and place in the fridge for an hour. Mocha sauce time!

Basically combine all the ingredients except the vanilla in a small pot and bring to a boil. Let it boil for one whole minute. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla.

I almost for got I used nonpareils to resemble the red roe. I didn't have any fancy sushi sets or anything to hold them, but I think they came out great! Especially since this is the first time I've made a Roulade.  

I hope you enjoy making these for a sushi lover in your life as much as I did! Have a great weekend!