Silky, Smooth Roll Cake
- 40 grams *Cake flour
- 20 grams *Bread (strong) flour
- 40 grams Butter
- 1 Egg (whole)
- 3 Egg yolk
- 3 Egg white
- 60 ml Milk
- 80 grams Castor sugar (or granulated sugar)
- 150 grams Heavy cream
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tbsp Peanut cream (sweet peanut frosting; bring to room temperature)
- 1 tbsp Whipped heavy cream
- 70 grams Crusted almonds
- Sift the *flours together.
- Separate the egg white from egg york, mix ingredients.
- Put the butter into a pot.
- Warm the milk up in double broiler, line the baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Heat the butter in a pan over medium heat until it's completely melted.
- When the butter has melted, remove the pan from heat, add the * sifted flours and mix well.
- Add the beaten in 3-4 batches and stir.
- (In the photo, I used a bowl, but you can do this in the pan.)
- Pour in the warmed milk little by little to make a smooth batter.
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- Whisk the egg whites.
- When it is no longer gelatinous, add the granulated sugar in 3 batches while beating the egg whites consistently to make a meringue.
- It should form soft peaks that lean over.
- Add 1/3 of the meringue into the bowl with the egg yolks, and mix together with a whisk.
- Add the rest of meringue, and fold it in with a rubber spatula.
- Pour the batter into a baking sheet and smooth out the surface with a pastry scraper.
- Bake for 12 minutes at 180C.
- In the meantime, beat the ingredients together, and have it ready in the refrigerator.
- As soon as the cake is baked, drop the cake pans from a height of 20 cm.
- Let it cool on a cooling rack cover in the cake pan covered with a sheet of parchment paper and plastic wrap.
- When the cake has cooled down completely, put the cake on a fresh piece of parchment paper and cut off the edges.
- Slice the side that will be the end of the cake when it's rolled at an angle, and spread the cake with a generous amount of cream.
- Keep 1 tablespoon of cream in reserve.
- Roll the cake by lifting up by the parchment paper and rolling it in one go.
- Cover the cake with plastic wrap and leave to rest in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Mix the ingredients together.
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- Spread it thinly on the surface of the rolled cake, and cover with the crushed almonds.
- Finished.
- To wrap the cake to store or to give as a gift, I recommend using waxed paper.
- * In step 9, before baking, drop the cake pan 2 to 3 times onto a flat surface to eliminate any big air bubbles.
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/150033-silky-smooth-roll-cake (may not work)