Green tea roll with red bean filling

This sponge roll cake with matcha and red bean filling was the first recipe that I got from my Japanese friend Ayako. She is a pastry chef and invented the recipe herself, so that it was the perfect birthday cake for one of my other Japanese friends :-)
Whilst looking where to buy the Japanese red bean paste, I even found a recipe how to prepare it yourself, but ultimately I managed to find the right paste readymade in an Asias shop very close by. I used a little more than the 150 g red bean paste that the recipe suggested, see below.

Ladybug Gateau with striped case and raspberry cream

I made this gateau for a colleague who celebrated her going-away party and had her invitations decorated with ladybugs. As I wanted to test my idea to make the black parts with dark berries and the red ones with red berries first, I made a small gateau first. I multiplied the ingredients wit 1.5 to get a 26cm and a 18 cm gateau.