Chocolate & Banana Carp Banner Cake for Kid's Day

Name: Chocolate & Banana Carp Banner Cake for Kid's Day
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cm thick 18 cm diameter chocolate sponge cake; 3 Bananas; 1 Chocolate decorating pen; 200 ml Heavy cream; 2 tbsp Sugar; 2 tbsp Cocoa

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If the banana slices are too thick, they might make decorating the cake a bit of a challenge.
Since this cream becomes thick more readily than regular heavy cream, keep the whipped peaks on the softer side!
For the times when it just seems like too much work to make, you can just use store-bought Swiss roll-style desserts like Yamazaki brand's "Marugoto Banana".
If you're worried about how easily the bananas change color, strawberries might work, too. This recipe yields about 4 carp roll cakes. Recipe by Hamumaki.

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Ingredients

4 servings

3 cmthick 18 cm diameter chocolate sponge cake
3Bananas
1Chocolate decorating pen
chocolate cream
200 mlHeavy cream
2 tbspSugar
2 tbspCocoa

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Steps

1

Mix together the ingredients as shown in "No Need for Chocolate! Cocoa Chocolate Mousse" to make the cream.
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/150014-no-need-for-chocolate-cocoa-chocolate-mousse

No Need for Chocolate! Cocoa Chocolate Mousse
2

Slice the spongecake into a thickness of 1-1.5 cm. I used the chocolate spongecake from.
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/150017-chocolate-sponge-cake-with-cocoa-only-4-ingredients

Chocolate Sponge Cake with Cocoa (Only 4 Ingredients!)
3

Place the sliced cake onto a sheet of parchment paper about the size of a sheet of printing paper. Thinly coat the surface with the cream and place a banana on top, as shown in the photo.
4

Completely cover the banana with the cream.
5

Since the cream is spread onto the banana, the sides will be somewhat lower.
6

Roll it up just like you would roll up a regular rollcake. Hold the edge of the paper closest to you and wrap it up away from you.
7

Place the seam end on the bottom and form the shape. (Don't smash it down too much. It'll look nice if shaped on the taller side.)
8

Open up the paper and place the cake so that it's vertical from you. It'll be good if you eat it just like this too.
9

It will look like this when viewed from the side.
10

Close the openings on both edges of the roll cake by pushing it gently shut from the left and the right.
11

It will look like this from the above.
12

Thinly coat the surface with the cream.
13

Cut the cake in half straight through the middle.
14

Thinly slice the other banana into 2 mm slices.
15

Decorate the thinner ends of the cakes with the thin slices of banana to make the scales, and push them into the cream to stick. Don't stick bananas onto the thicker ends of the cake, leave those sides open.
16

Use the chocolate decorating pen to make eyes on the ends of the cake left undecorated.
17

If you look at the cakes from the cut end, it looks like their mouths are open.