Chocolate Roll
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, broken into small pieces
- 1⁄3 cup strong freshly brewed coffee
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 7 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- 8 egg whites
- 3 -4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1⁄4 cup cognac or 1/4 cup brandy
directions
- In a double boiler, melt the chocolate with the coffee over hot, not simmering, water, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
- Pour the chocolate mixture into a bowl and let cool until tepid.
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Lightly butter an 11x17 inch jelly roll pan.
- Line it with waxed paper, with a little of the paper overhanging at each end of the pan, and lightly butter the paper.
- In a medium bowl, beat the egg yolks with 3/4 cup of the sugar until the mixture forms when the beater is lifted.
- Stir into the tepid chocolate mixture, blending thoroughly.
- In another bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry.
- Stir one-third of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it, then gently fold in the remaining egg whites just until no white patches show.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan, tilting the pan to spread it evenly.
- Smooth the top.
- Bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 300 and bake for another 5 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the oven.
- Cover the cake with a damp cloth and refrigerate the cake in its pan for 1 hour.
- Carefully remove the cloth from the cake and loosen the roll from the sides of the pan with a knife.
- Using a fine strainer, heavily dust the top of the cake with most of the cocoa.
- Cover the cake with a sheet of waxed paper.
- Lay out a large kitchen towel on a flat work surface.
- Grabbing both ends of both sheets of waxed paper,quickly but carefully flip the cake over onto the towel.
- Carefully remove the sheet of waxed paper from what is now the top of the cake.
- In a medium bowl, beat the heavy cream until slightly thickened.
- Add the remaining 1/4 cup sugar and cognac and continue beating until the cream is thick enough to spread.
- With a thin, flexible spatula, spread the whipped cream evenly over the cake, leaving a small border along all the sides.
- Grasping both the kitchen towel and the waxed paper along one long side, gently roll the cake into a jelly roll shape, pulling the cloth and waxed paper away as you go.
- On the last turn, roll the cake onto a serving platter, seam side down.
- If the cake has sagged at all, gently push the roll back into shape with your hands.
- Trim the ends of the roll so the cream filling is flush with the ends of the cake.
- Cover any cracks on the outside of the cake with a final sifting of cocoa.
- Cover lightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate until serving time.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Stephanie S.
Lincoln, NE
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