Decorated Cake Roll

Last week was crazy here. My son turned 4 and we prepared a huge party with 15 kids plus their parents. It was incredibly fun for the children and for the adults too! He is all about Spiderman these days so I made a Spiderman cake and a lot of Spiderman cookies. You can see some pictures of them in the photo gallery. I took them with my phone in the last minute so they do not have the best quality.
This week was my birthday too! I decided to make a small cake just for the family using the cake roll technique which gives amazing results. This cake is dedicated to all of you who remembered the date and sent birthday wishes. Thank you!

To make this cake we will need to different types of batter. One for the decorations and one for the rest of the cake.

Ingredients for the decoration batter
100g of butter (room temperature)
3 egg whites
90g of sugar powder
125g of flour

We put the butter and the sugar un a bowl and we mix with the electric mixer until we get a creamy blend. We add the three egg whites and blend all that until is well combined. Next we add the flour gradually while we keep mixing. Next step is dying the dough. I used three colours so I divided the mixture in three bowls and add the colours I chose. You put the mixtures in pipping bags with numbers two or three pipping nozzles.
It is time now for making our design. I draw it myself on a piece of paper this time but you can print out any design you like. Remember it has to be reversed! You fix the design to the cooking tray with some tape and put baking paper on it and fix it too. Now you just go over the design using your pipping bags. It is just like colouring!
Once we are done we put the tray in the freezer while we prepare the other batter.


Ingredients for the rest of the cake
4 eggs
100g of sugar
90g of flour
60g of melted butter (room temperature)

First of all we separate the egg whites and the yolks. We mix in a bowl the egg whites with 50g of sugar until we get a fluffy soft blend. In a separate bowl we combine the yolks with 50g of sugar until we get a smooth yellow cream. Now we are going to incorporate the egg whit mixture in the yolk mixture. We take a spatula and with some egg white mixture, we put it in the yolk mixture and we fold it in. We continue like this until we run out of egg white mixture.

We add now the melted butter at room temperature and the flour. We will fold it in until we get a smooth batter.

We take our tray out of the freezer and separate the template we used to make our design. Now we cover the design with the new batter and we spread it with a spatula to make it flat.
We let it bake in the oven for about 7 minutes.
When we take it out of the oven we immediately flip it over with help of another tray and we carefully and slowly remove the baking paper. We put on it a new piece of baking paper and we flip it again. We roll the cake to make it take the rolling form and we leave it like that to cool.

Once it has cooled down we unroll it carefully and remove the baking paper on the top to put the filling in. I chose chocolate ganache but you can use any cream or filling that you like. Remember to leave some room on the sides and at the bottom because now we have to roll it again and the filling will be pushed forward.

Happy birthday to me!!