Lemon Raspberry Roll Cake!
YeeHAW! Stampede is back and so are my cooking demos at the kitchen theatre! This year we made a lemon raspberry roll cake with a light lemon sponge and smooth raspberry cream cheese filling. It’s delightful!
Ingredients:
Cake:
5 egg yolks
2 Tablespoons Oil
3 Tablespoons Milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon extract, or zest of 1 lemon
2 drops yellow dye (optional)
1 cup of sugar (divide into 2 parts)
4 egg whites
3/4 cup flour
2 Tablespoons Cornstarch
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Filling:
454g Cream cheese (2 x 8oz logs)
1 cup sugar
pinch salt
3 Tablespoons Raspberry Jam
1 1/2 cups Whipping Cream
Cake:
Preheat oven to 350*F and grease and line a half sheet pan with parchment. Grease parchment as well.
With electric mixer, whisk yolks, oil, milk, vanilla, lemon extract, yellow dye and half of the sugar. Whip until light and fluffy.
In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites and remaining sugar until stiff peaks form.
Combine remaining dry ingredients in a bowl.
Sift dry ingredients into yolk mixture and gently fold in.
Fold approximately 1/3 of egg whites into the yolk mixture.
Fold in remaining egg whites gently.
Spread into the greased half sheet pan and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown and firm feeling.
When cake comes out of the oven, run a knife around the edges to loosen, and flip onto a clean tea towel that is sprinkled heavily with icing sugar.
Peel off parchment paper carefully.
Using tea towel roll the cake up into a log and let cool.
Filling
With a whisk on your mixer, mix together softened cream cheese, sugar, salt and raspberry jam.
Scrape down bowl and continue mixing until smooth.
Slowly pour in cream and combine.
Turn up speed and whip until thick and fluffy.
Unroll cake and spread a tick layer of the filling over the entire cake, leaving about 1” on the far end free of any filling.
Using the tea towel to help, roll the cake back up into a log.
Place onto your serving dish and then spread remaining filling all over the entire cake.
Place in the fridge to chill for at least 30 minutes and serve cold.