Jelly Roll

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3/4 cup cake flour, sifted (no exceptions)
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 eggs (room temperature)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• powdered sugar
• 1 cup jelly or 1 1/2 cups sweet whipped cream

Recipe

• 1 cover bottom of jelly roll pan (15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch) with wax paper.
• 2 preheat oven to 400°f.
• 3 sift first three ingredients together. set aside.
• 4 in a mixing bowl, beat eggs at high speed until foamy. add sugar slowly, a little at a time while mixer is running. beat until very thick and the color of mayonnaise.
• 5 gently fold in dry ingredients just until blended.
• 6 pour into was papered pan and spread evenly to edges.
• 7 bake 12 - 14 minutes until golden and cake is springy.
• 8 loosen edges and invert in a kitchen towel (cotton, not terry-cloth) predusted with powdered sugar.
• 9 peel off wax paper and roll towel and cake from a short side. cool on a wire rack.
• 10 unroll, spread a quality jelly of your liking to within 1/4 inch of edges, reroll without towel and place seam side down on platter. dust with powdered sugar and serve in 1 to 1 1/2" slices.
• 11 refrigerate leftovers.
• 12 lemon jelly roll variation: prepare as above substituting 1/2 tsp lemon flavoring for the vanilla and add 1 tbsp finely grated lemon zest. fill with lemon chess or lemon pie filling (cooled).