Chocolate Roll

• This cake would be called a rolada in Polish.
• The baking of this is simple – the hardest part is adding the filling and rolling it back together.
• You can make many versions of this with different fillings.
• Here I have used a sour cherry jam layer and a sweet curd or cream cheese layer on top.

Ingredients – Cake

• 2 eggs
• 75g caster sugar
• 50g Plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 25g cocoa powder
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• extra sugar for rolling

Ingredients – Filling

• Sour Cherry Jam & a little water
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• 150-200g  yoghurt cheese or cream cheese
• 1-2 tablespoons of soured cream
• Icing sugar to taste

Method – Cake

• Pre-heat the oven to GM 7 – 220°C.
• Grease and line a 24 x 34cm baking sheet.
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• Have ready 2 more sheets of baking paper.
• Lay one of these flat and sprinkle with caster sugar.
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• Whisk the eggs and sugar until light, pale and fluffy.
• Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa together till uniform.
• Fold in the flour mixture with a metal spoon.
• Spread the mixture over the prepared tin with a spatula –
• Getting to all the edges as nearly as possible.
• Bake for 7- 8 minutes.
• DO NOT OVERBAKE or it will crack later.
• Take out the cake and tip it onto the sugared paper.
• Peel off the paper which was under the cake.
• Using a metal spatula can be helpful.
• Put the third sheet of baking paper on top of the cake.
• Roll up the cake from the narrow end with the paper inside.
• Leave the cake to cool completely.

Method – Filling

• Use a small saucepan to thin down the jam by adding a little water, mixing and heating it gently.
• Leave to cool completely.
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• Mix the cheese ingredients to taste.
• You want a soft spreadable mixture.

Assembling the cake

• Unroll the cake gently and flatten a little.
• Spread on the jam over the whole cake.
• Spread on the sweet cheese mixture over the jam.
• Roll up the cake again.
• Leave in a cool place for about an hour before serving.
• Serve as thick slices
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• Can taste even better the next day as the jam seeps into the cake.

• Served on Royal Doulton – Flirtation from the late 1970s.

You can try this with a variety of options with different jams and flavours for the sweet cheese.