Lemon Cake Roll
- 1 lemon roulade, rolled into a 10-inch-wide log, at room temperature or slightly cooled (see recipe)
- 23 cup sweet orange marmalade (do not use bitter orange marmalade) or apricot preserve
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Powdered sugar
- Lemon filling, thoroughly cooled (see recipe)
- 1/4 cup heavy (whipping) cream
- Powdered sugar, for dusting
- To ready the cake roll: if lemon roulade has been refrigerated or frozen, set out to warm almost to room temperature.
- Combine marmalade and 1/2 tablespoon water in a small saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Simmer, stirring, for 1 1/2 minutes and remove from heat.
- Stir in lemon juice.
- Strain marmalade mixture through a medium-fine sieve and set aside until cooled and thickened but still spreadable.
- Carefully unroll roulade on a large sheet of wax paper dusted with powdered sugar.
- Spread marmalade mixture evenly over cake surface using a spatula or large knife.
- Lightly cover with wax paper.
- To prepare lemon cream: In a mixing bowl with mixer set on high speed, beat cooled lemon filling until completely smooth.
- In another mixing bowl with mixer set on high speed, beat heavy cream until firm peaks form.
- Beat lemon filling into whipped cream until smoothly incorporated.
- Spread roulade surface evenly with lemon cream, stopping about 1 inch from edges (to prevent filling from squeezing out during rolling).
- Roll up cake neatly, but not so tightly that filling squeezes out.
- Wrap tightly in wax paper, twisting ends of paper to keep cake from unrolling.
- Transfer to a tray or baking sheet and refrigerate for at least 4 hours and up to 48 hours.
- To serve: Trim ends of roll using a serrated knife.
- Dust length of cake roll with sifting of powdered sugar.
- Cut cake crosswise into slices using a sharp serrated knife.
lemon roulade, sweet orange marmalade, lemon juice, powdered sugar, lemon filling, heavy, powdered sugar
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/9805 (may not work)