Hand-Painted Bear Face Swiss Roll Cake Masterclass

Led by professional bakers, this masterclass offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide from beginner level to the finished product in creating a hand-painted bear face Swiss roll cake. Combining baking skills with hand-painting artistry, the course covers precise pattern positioning, multi-colored batter preparation, dimensional decoration, and cake roll assembly. Learn how to master the core techniques of adorable animal-themed desserts that deliver both delightful taste and visual charm.

✔ Precise Batter Preparation: Blend milk, coconut milk, corn oil, and other wet ingredients; sift in low-gluten flour and corn starch to achieve a smooth, lump-free batter. Master the 80% whipped egg white meringue (soft peak with large hook shape) and maintain batter fluffiness with gentle low-speed defoaming and folding techniques.

✔ Oven Temperature Control & Shaping: Use a 28×28cm baking pan and freeze the pattern template to fix the outline. Bake at 135°C for 25 minutes. Tap the pan lightly to release bubbles, ensuring an even and smooth cake base.

✔ Accurate Color Mixing: Use sesame-seed-sized edible pigments to prepare light yellow (bear’s mouth), dark brown (facial fur), pink (heart-shaped blush), etc. Calibrate colors against templates to achieve a cute and vivid visual effect.

✔ Fine Brush Hand-Painting: Employ size 00000 fine brushes with vertical light strokes to outline fur texture, ear contours, and facial features. Use a blend of dark brown and white for hair layering, white highlights on eyes, and pink blush to enhance dimensionality.

✔ Template Positioning Techniques: Precisely position printed templates and freeze the batter edges to avoid blurring after baking.

✔ Innovative Cream Filling: Mix chocolate sauce with whipped cream, add crunchy wafer crumbs and chocolate chips for layered texture. Use piping bags for even filling and a spatula to smooth the surface.

✔ Rolling and Cutting: Keep the cake base width at 16.5–17cm. Freeze for 15–20 minutes to set, then cut with a warmed serrated knife to prevent edge cracking and reveal a clean cut.

✔ Template pre-treatment: Place the bear pattern template and high-temperature baking paper in the pan; freeze 10–20 minutes to fix the outline. Fill designated areas with light yellow, dark brown, and pink batters, then freeze again before removing the template.

✔ Baking & Demolding: Bake at 135°C for 25 minutes. Flip and demold, trim edges, and cool for later use.

✔ Outline drawing: Use dark brown edible pigment to trace the frozen batter edges, drawing the bear’s head, ears, and fur direction with irregular short lines to mimic natural fur texture.

✔ Layered coloring: Light yellow highlights on the face center, pink on heart and blush areas, dark brown for shadows inside ears and fur depth, white dots for eye highlights, creating a 3D effect.

✔ Detail refinement: Use a small amount of purified water to blend color transitions softly, fix edges, and enhance the fluffiness of the fur for a natural, soft look.

✔ Cream filling: Whip 350g cream with 40g chocolate sauce to stiff peaks, fold in 30g crunchy wafer crumbs and chocolate chips, evenly pipe into the cake base. Roll and chill for 15–20 minutes to set.

✔ Cutting & Finishing: Heat the serrated knife above body temperature to trim uneven ends and remove excess edges, completing the final presentation of the bear face Swiss roll.

✔ Home Baking Enthusiasts: Ideal for creative dessert lovers who want to make special cakes for children’s birthdays and family gatherings. No prior art skills required.

✔ Advanced Baking Creators: Perfect for those interested in animal-themed cake decoration, aiming to enhance hand-painting and 3D modeling skills, with potential to extend to other cartoon figures.

✔ Small Bakery Owners: Great for shop owners developing parent-child themed products to attract family customers and enrich seasonal or everyday menus.

✅ Full Process Skill Coverage: From pattern design to baking, painting, and assembly, a one-stop solution to tackle production challenges and reduce failure risks.
✅ Zero-Barrier Creative Instruction: Template positioning and multi-color filling simplify hand-painting, using basic tools like fine brushes and piping bags, perfectly suited for home baking environments.
✅ Scenario-Based Application Expansion: The bear theme can extend to multiple animal shapes, ideal for children’s parties, holiday dessert tables, and diverse creative settings.
✅ Troubleshooting and Refinement: Detailed guidance on common issues like insufficient defoaming, excessive color bleeding, and roll cracking, with practical fixes to improve final product success.