Strawberry Cake Roll to Impress your Friends

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A white tray with a cake roll covered in confectioners sugar and decorated with strawberries and whippd cream — Strawberry Cake Roll

Strawberry cake roll is one of those desserts that impresses your friends when they come over. The cake is made in three steps. First, the vanilla cake, second, sweeten the strawberries a little, and third, make the whipped cream. Then, just put them all together into a cake roll; It really looks fantastic, but even better, this cake tastes as good as it looks!

Seems like strawberries and whipped cream have always gone together, and piling these two ingredients onto a soft cake makes them even better. You always get that great vanilla cake flavor with the fruity strawberries and irresistible creaminess of whipped cream; a hard to beat combination.

Ingredients for the cake:

There are 7 ingredients in this cake: eggs, sugar, water, flour, vanilla, baking powder, and salt; Ingredients that we usually have on hand.

Ingredients for cake roll — Cake roll ingredients

First, you put the eggs in a mixer and whip them until they become thick, about 4 minutes. They look great mixed up like this.

Eggs whipped up so they are thick, show how thick with mixer beaters dripping thick egg mixture — Eggs whipped up

Add the sugar to the eggs and whip for another 2 minutes until combined and a little thicker.

Adding sugar to thick egg mixture in a stand mixer — Adding the sugar

Adding vanilla to thick egg mixture — Add the water and vanilla and mix to combine

Now, add the mixture of flour, salt, and baking powder to the egg mix. Really starting to look good.

Cake batter mixing in a stand mixture — Add the flour mix and whip some more

Cake ready for the oven

Pour the cake batter into a parchment lined sheet pan, making sure to spray the parchment paper first.

Vanilla cake batter in a sheet pan — Cake batter in a pan

When the cake comes out of the oven, turn onto a tea towel that you dusted with powdered sugar. Peel off the parchment paper slowly, so that it doesn't pull the cake apart. You wouldn't want that!

Peeling parchment paper back from cooked cake — Slowly take the parchment off the cake

Roll the cake on the long side, using the dusted powdered sugar tea towel, into a tight spiral.

Rolling baked cake up in a tea towel — Warm cake rolled in a tea towel

Set the wrapped cake onto a wire rack and let it sit until cooled.

Cake rolled in a tea towel cooling on a rack — Let the cake cool

Preparing strawberries

While the cake is cooling, take 4 cups of strawberries and slice into pieces. Pour 1 Tablespoon of sugar over the strawberries and let sit

Strawberries sliced up in a bowl topped with sugar — Add sugar to the sliced strawberries and let sit till the whipped cream is done

Ingredients for Whipped Cream:

Only 2 ingredients to make great tasting whipped cream: Heavy cream and confectioners' sugar!

Two bowls, one of heavy cream and the other powdered sugar — Ingredients for whipped cream

Whip the cream until it is slightly thick, then add the confectioners' sugar. Whip a little longer til it is soft and thick, but not too thick.

cream whipped up in a bowl — Bowl of sweetened whipped cream

Preparing the baked cake

Unroll the cake and dot it with mounds of the whipped cream.

Cake unrolled and dotted with whipped cream — Dollops of whipped cream on the cooled cake

Spread the whipped cream all over the cake till it is completely covered.

Whipped cream spread onto a flat cake — Spread cream onto the cake

Adding the strawberries

Put the strawberries on top of the whipped cream.

Sliced strawberries 0on whipped cream laying on a cake — Put the strawberries on to the whipped cream

Now, just start at one end of the cake and roll it up tightly again. Set the seem of the cake onto the bottom of a tray. For decoration, sift with confectioners' sugar and dot with dollops of whipped cream. Add beautiful sliced strawberries onto the top of the cake.

A cake roll filled with whipped cream and strawberries, covered with confectioners sugar and side of strawberries — Roll the cake back up and sprinkle with connecters sugar

Strawberry Cake Roll

Print Recipe

Author: ourfantasticrecipes
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes + 1 hour to cool
Total Time: 1 hr. 27 minutes
Yield: 10 pieces 1x
Category: cake

Ingredients

Scale

Cake:

5 large eggs
1 ¼ cups sugar
⅓ cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour, sifted
1 tsp. baking powder
¼ teaspoon. salt

Strawberries:

4 cups strawberries, sliced
1 Tablespoon sugar

Whipped Cream:

2 !/2 cups heavy cream
⅓ cup powdered sugar, sifted
⅓ cup flour, sifted

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400ºF.
Prepare a 12" x 15" sheet pan by spraying with cooking spray, put a sheet of parchment paper on it and spraying it again. Set aside.
Mix the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, and salt together, set aside
In a mixer, beat the eggs till slightly thick and a lite lemon color.
Add the sugar to the whipped eggs and mix to get a little thicker, about 3 to 4 minutes.
Add the water and vanilla and beat for another minute.
Add the flour mixture and mix till combined about 1 minute.
Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 12 minutes. Should spring back when cake is pressed with your finger.
While cake is cooking, put 4 cups of sliced strawberries in a bowl and sprinkle with 1 Tablespoon of sugar. Mix. Set aside until cake is done.
Mix 2 ½ cups heavy cream in a chilled bowl till slightly thick, add ⅓ cup of powdered sugar to the cream and whip until stiff peaks.
Put into the refrigerator until cake is done.
When the cake is done and still warm turn out onto a tea towel that is sifted with powdered sugar.
Peel off the parchment paper.
Roll up the cake with the towel and set on a rack to cool.
When cool turn onto a cutting board or platter and unroll the cake
Spread with the whipped cream
Add the strawberries to the whipped cream
Roll the cake back up and set on the seem part of the cake. chill
Add the powdered sugar to the top, a little whipped cream roses, and fresh strawberries