Ingredients for Swiss Roll:
- 3 free range eggs
- 75g caster sugar
- 75g plain flour
Filling:
- 18 strawberries: chopped.
- 350ml cream
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp icing sugar.
Stock syrup:
- 50% water
- 50% sugar
- optional: start anise, lemon zest, etc.
- Process: In a sauce pan, mix water and sugar, then heat up until boiling, then simmer.
Straberry dressing:
- 380g straberries (can be frozen)
- 150g icing sugar
- 1 lemon juice
Overall Process:
- Preheat oven at 175C
- In a tray of aprox 40cm x 25cm, cut a piece of baking paper of the same size.
- Then cut a diagonal in each corner of the paper with scissors
- Butter the tray, put the paper, then trimmer above 1cm on the borders.
- Butter the paper again and pour some flour and smack the tray to produce an anti-stick layer.
- Using a mixing-machine (something I dont have at home….) put the sugar and eggs. Mix until 4 times in size!! They need to become a white and dense cream.
- Sieve the flour in a bowl. Twice if possible.
- Once the egg mix is ready, fold the flour slowly like 1/3 at each time, you want to keep the air bubbles! Use a spatula.
- Pour the mix on the tray. Bake for 6 minutes aprox at 175C. It should spring the surface when you poke it with a finger.
- Let it cool down for a bit.
- Spread a kitchen towel on your work surface and dust it with plenty of sugar. Dont use baking paper or similar!
- Put the sponge on the towel and remove the paper carefully.
- Cut the edges with a serrated knife.
- This is the most difficult step, you need to roll the sponge using the towel to keep it tight but without breaking the sponge! Make a line on the bottom of the sponge to help you roll it up
- once the sponge is rolled, be sure it is tight the kitchen towel. Let it rest.
- Prepare your stock syrup.
- Chop the straberries.
- Prepare the cream. Whisk by hand in a bowl the cream, sugar and vanilla. Until solid but not peaks.
- Unroll the sponge, and brush some stock syrup on it.
- Add chopped straberries.
- Spread the cream on top of the strawberries.
- Roll again the sponge, be careful!!! Using the towel.
- With a clean knife, cut both ends and then start cutting pieces (cleaning each time the knife)
- Optionally, you can prepare a strawberry syrup. In a blender put the straberries, icing sugar and lemon juice.
- Decoration. With the leftover cream and a piping bag, you can decorate each slice with a cream dollop and some pieces of strawberry. Using the strawberry syrup, and a sign.
To be honest the sponge was very nice and not super sweet. The cream doesnt have much sugar and the strawberry give it a fresh bite.