Due to the dire warnings of impending blizzard doom (or 'Snowmageddon', as I heard it referenced as on the news multiple times) this past weekend, we did a large grocery shopping trip last Thursday to make sure we wouldn't starve during the storm. One of the stores we went to was the Kam Sam supermarket in Rockville. Our originial purpose in going there was to replenish our stash of pork ribs, but (somewhat predictably), I was purusing the bakery section when I saw the perfect breakfast for the weekend- roll cake! And not just any roll cake, but tiger roll cake!! I have always been a fan of roll cake, which is a sponge cake that is formed into a swiss roll, with a cream filling (commonly buttercream) holding the swiss roll together. It can be either baked or steamed. Both are good, but I prefer baked, as the cake will get a light crust and golden brown coloring on the outside, which is both aesthetically pleasing and tasty. It is light, not too sweet, and delicious in the morning with tea. Sometimes the roll cake is chocolate, or even matcha flavored, but we have always been traditionalists and gone with good old vanilla. That is, until this particular supermarket visit, where I saw a roll cake that had some sort of covering that looked like an egg dough that had been seared or something similar to get the dark 'tiger' pattern on it (I have been unable to find instructions on how to get the tiger roll skin so far online). In truth, the pattern was more leopard than tiger, but that is irrelevant, as it was pure awesome! Inside, the cake wasn't a swiss roll, but a combination of a variety of different sponge cakes, all held together with the ubiquitous and delicious cream filling. This particular tiger cake was made up of vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and orange cakes. I like to pick it apart and eat all the flavors separately, but that's just my preference.
After having this roll cake, I am in love! Why buy a single flavor roll cake, when you can have 4 different flavors in one cake? And because it has more pieces of cake in it, it requires more frosting- it's a win all around! Plus, this cake is slightly larger than the normal roll cake, presumably because so much more cake is crammed into it, but that just means more for us to eat! Yay! I can't say anything for how long this cake will stay good, because it only lasted the weekend (that would be 3 breakfasts for 2 people, or 12 slices, since we each ate two slices per morning), but we stored it in the fridge and it wasn't any worse for wear by Sunday morning. The roll cake was $7, compared to their 'normal' roll cakes, which run at $6. This always seems expensive to me when I buy them, but it is the normal price- I can't find quality roll cakes of similar size much cheaper in the DC area. The best I can get is $5, so really $7 isn't that extravagent.
We also bought two pieces of cake from their bakery- one coffee and one chocolate (not pictured because I smushed them in their baggies on the way home by accident- oops!). The cakes were sponge cake with flavored icings and chocolate shavings on top. They were pretty good, though small. Each cake was $1.50.
Yay for bakeries!
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