Manitoba Canola Growers Association
Canola Bakeoff at Red River College - 2004 Winners

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First Place Anne Ho

Maccha Green Tea Strawberry Roll

Green Tea Roll
6 eggs
150 mL (2/3 cup) sugar
30 mL (2 Tbsp) canola oil
40 mL (2 Tbsp + 2 tsp) milk
150 mL (2/3 cup) cake flour
15-20 mL (1-1 1/2 Tbsp) green tea powder

Filling
500 mL (2 cups) whipping cream
125 mL (1/2 cup) sugar
500 mL (2 cups) strawberries, hulled, sliced

Green Tea Roll:
In a bowl, beat eggs until foamy. Add sugar to eggs and beat until creamy. In a sauce pan, bring to a boil on low heat, canola oil and milk, stirring constantly. In a bowl, sift cake flour and green tea powder. Add to egg mixture, gently folding in. Add canola oil and milk mixture. Fold gently until all lumps are gone.

Pour mixture on to cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 325^oF (160^oC). Once baked, remove cake from pan, remove the parchment paper and let it rest and cool on a clean piece of parchment paper.

Filling:
Beat whipping cream and sugar until firm.

Assembly of roll:
Spread whipping cream on the cake, add strawberries. Roll up tight. Refrigerate cake until filling has set. Slice and serve.

Runner up Elise L. Evison

Snowballs chance …..In Manitoba

Dough:
500 mL (2 cups) flour
10 mL (2 tsp) baking powder
Pinch salt
120 mL (7 Tbsp) canola oil
150–175 mL (2/3–3/4 cup) homogenized milk
4 apples, small, peeled and cored
30 mL (2 Tbsp) cinnamon
45 mL (3 Tbsp) brown sugar

Maple Caramel Sauce:
500 mL (2 cups) whipping cream
175 mL (3/4 cup) brown sugar
125 mL (1/2 cup) maple syrup

Dough:
Sift dry ingredients together. Add canola oil to dry ingredients until a coarse meal forms. Slowly add milk (2/3 cup). Stirring until dough forms a soft ball. Add more milk if needed. Turn dough onto lightly floured board. Lightly flour top of dough. Knead lightly for a few seconds. Roll dough out to .125 mm (1/8 inch) thickness and cut into four squares. Place apples in centre of dough, fill centre of apples with cinnamon/brown sugar mixture. Bring corners of dough up and around the apple, pinch together at top. Seal edges. Bake on a canola oiled cake pan for 30-40 minutes at 350^oF (175^oC).

Maple Caramel Sauce:
Combine cream, sugar and syrup in saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium/low and simmer sauce until caramel colour and is reduced to 425 mL (1 3/4 cup), stirring occasionally. This will take approximately 35 minutes. Cool slightly. The caramel sauce can be made in advance.

To assemble:
Place one snowball on plate, drizzle with caramel sauce and garnish with ice cream.