Strawberry Cake Roll
Ingredients
Cake:
4 eggs
3/4 C. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 C. cake flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
Powdered sugar
Butter cream:
3/4 C. butter, softened
2 3/4 C. powdered sugar
1 egg
1/2 C. strawberry preserves
Whipped cream:
1 pint heavy cream
1/2 C. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pint strawberries
Cooking Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a 15 x 10 inch jelly roll pan with waxed paper. Butter lightly. Beat eggs until light. Add sugar, gradually. Beat until thick and lemon colored. Add vanilla. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Fold into egg mixture. Pour into pan. Bake for 10 minutes or until cake springs back when pressed lightly. Roll cake inside a towel coated with sifted powdered sugar; start at the short side. Cool. For the butter cream, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, then preserves. To hold together, this may be chilled, but let it soften before spreading. Whip cream with sugar and vanilla. To assemble: Unroll cake. Spread with butter cream. Roll up again. Place seam side down on serving plate. Frost with cream and chill several hours. Garnish with berries. Makes 1 cake roll.
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