New Jacobstown

Chocolate Roll Cake

Author
Marge Dillon
Makes
10-12 servings

Ingredients

Cake

1 cup cake flour sifted
1 cup all-purpose flour sifted
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
confectioners sugar
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup cocoa

Whipped Cream

1 cup whipping cream
1/4 cup confectioners sugar

Directions

Cake

  1. Pre-heat oven to 375 °F.
  2. Grease a 15½×10½ jelly roll pan and line bottom with greased parchment paper.
  3. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
  4. Beat eggs in mixing bowl until very thick and lemon-colored.
  5. Gradually mix in sugar.
  6. Mix in water and vanilla on low.
  7. Slowly mix in dry ingredients on low until just smooth.
  8. Pour into pan and bak 12-15 minutes.
  9. Immediately loosen edges and turn out onto a towel sprinkled with confectioners sugar.
  10. Remove paper and trim off stiff edges.
  11. While hot, roll cake and towel from narrow end.
  12. Let cool on wire rack.
  13. Unroll carefully, remove towel and spread with whipped cream.
  14. Reroll carefully.
  15. Dust with confectioners sugar and server with thing chocolate sauce.

Whipped Cream

Combine ingredients and mix until stiff peaks.


Tags: vegetarian dessert