
Swiss Roll
A rolled sponge cake filled with cream.
Like a jelly roll cake.
Roll the cake while it is still warm so it does not crack.
Ingredients
- 6 eggs eggs
- 6 tablespoons flour
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- for sprinkling on the cloth powdered sugar
- or orange zest or 1 tablespoon vinegar lemon zest
- for the filling ice cream / booza
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, with top and bottom heat.
- Crack the eggs into a bowl; they should be at room temperature, not straight from the refrigerator.
- Beat the eggs in the bowl for about 7 minutes.
- Gradually add the sugar to the bowl, continuing to beat until the sugar dissolves.
- Gradually add the vegetable oil to the bowl, continuing to beat.
- Add the vanilla to the bowl, continuing to beat.
- Sift the flour together with the baking powder over the bowl in batches.
- Gently fold the mixture in the bowl; do not use the mixer.
- Prepare a baking tray and lightly spray it with butter, or grease it with regular butter and line with parchment paper.
- Pour the mixture into the baking tray and spread it into the corners.
- Tap the baking tray lightly to even out the cake thickness.
- Place the baking tray on the bottom rack of the oven for 13 minutes at 180°C, with top and bottom heat.
- Remove the cake pan from the oven and leave it to cool.
- Loosen the edges of the cake from the tray after removing it from the oven.
- Lay out a kitchen towel and sprinkle it with powdered sugar.
- Turn the cake out onto the kitchen towel while it is still relatively warm.
- Roll the cake together with the kitchen towel into a cylinder.
- Place the rolled cake in the refrigerator for 15 minutes so it holds its shape.
- Unroll the cake after chilling and spread the filling over it.
- Leave the edges of the cake bare when filling it to make rolling easier.
- Roll the filled cake again.
- Place the Swiss roll in the freezer for 4 to 5 hours or overnight until firm.
- Remove the Swiss roll from the freezer and slice to serve.