Sponge roll has long been a favorite among housewivesits ease of preparation and wonderful taste. In order to bake it, you don’t need to fiddle with it for half a day, stand at the stove for hours or run around and check if it’s burnt. The whole secret lies in the freshness of the products, the temperature and the baking mode. A lot also depends on the recipe you use. So, the main ingredients are eggs, flour, sugar and vanillin (vanilla sugar). You can also add orange zest, raisins, poppy seeds, nuts, cocoa and anything else that comes to mind. Additional ingredients should be selected depending on what kind of product you want to get in the end and what recipe you are using. Dough with vanilla is considered universal, but it is better not to cook a sponge cake from butter cream, as it is more crumbly. The recipe for butter sponge cake is best used for baking cakes and pastries. Cocoa is often added to the dough mass. Then you need to carefully approach the choice of filling.
How to cook biscuit rolls?
Low temperature should be both products,and utensils. But there is an exception to this: biscuit dough is prepared warm (the recipe involves mixing and heating the whites with the yolks). If you have succeeded, then you will take out of the oven a biscuit dough of a uniform structure with a characteristic crust. Freshly prepared biscuit should be kept for at least 8 hours, otherwise you will not be able to cut it and soak it evenly with syrup. How to roll a biscuit roll Make sure that all the products are prepared in advance, the baking sheet is covered, and the oven is preheated. Depending on the features of the oven, the cooking time of the biscuit is different. At home, it is very easy to roll the dough, you do not need any special devices for this. The hot dough should be immediately placed on a towel and together with it, twisted into a roll. It will be difficult to remove the paper immediately, but it is quite possible. Try, while wrapping the dough, gradually removing the paper. The twisted rolls should cool completely. Only then can they be coated with cream, carefully unrolling them so that the dough does not tear. We offer you basic recipes for baking sponge rolls.
Recipe biscuit roll with condensed milk
Probably each of us has tried a roll withcondensed milk. Housewives often use both boiled and regular (mix 400 g of condensed milk with 200 g of butter and a packet of vanillin). You can decorate the roll with chocolate or coconut flakes. The recipe for such a roll with condensed milk is very easy to prepare.
- For the dough and filling: 5 eggs, 1 glass of sugar, 1 cup of flour, 0.5 l of boiled condensed milk, 1 teaspoon of soda (hydrated).
- For decoration: 2-3 tablespoons condensed milk, coconut shavings or 100 g of chocolate.
How to cook?To prepare the dough, beat the eggs with sugar, mix with flour and slaked soda. This mixture will be enough for one large cake. The baking sheet must be covered with baking paper and greased with butter. It is not necessary to look for such a size of paper that it will completely cover the sheet. For this, you can use several pieces. The dough must be poured onto the prepared baking sheet and baked for about 8 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. The hot sponge cake must be removed from the oven and rolled into a roll. Once cooled, spread with condensed milk and sprinkle with coconut flakes. You can also spread condensed milk only on the inside of the roll, and cover the outside with chocolate (after melting it in a water bath) and sprinkle with confectionery sprinkles.
Sponge cake with whipped cream
The highlight of this roll is that the biscuit isIn this case, it will definitely rise and turn out well. To do this, add boiling water to the dough, and use whipped cream for the filling. Of course, instead of cream, you can use jam or some other filling, depending on what taste you want to get.
- For the test (with a baking tray 40x45 cm): 5 eggs, 100 ml of boiling water, a glass of sugar, 10-12 g (bag) of baking powder, a glass of flour.
- For the filling: 30% cream (fat) - 800 ml, 4 packets of cream fixative, 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
How to cook?Before you start cooking, prepare everything you need: sift the flour, mix it with baking powder, heat the kettle, cover the baking sheet and grease it with butter. Beat the eggs with sugar using a mixer, slowly pouring in boiling water and flour. Lastly, add the flour with baking powder to the mixture, continuing to stir. The mass will be quite thick. When you pour it onto the baking sheet, try to distribute the mixture evenly. Bake the dough at 180-200 °C for about 10-15 minutes. In this case, you do not need to roll the hot dough into a roll. Boiling water makes the dough soft, it peels off the paper well and bends. To prepare the cream, you just need to beat all the ingredients. If you could not find baking powder for cream, then you can do without it. The taste will be richer if you add small pieces of fruit or berries to the cream, which are not only tasty but also healthy. When the dough has cooled, grease it with the filling and roll it into a roll. The outside of the roll can also be coated with cream and sprinkled with berries or crumbs.
The recipe for a biscuit roll with a pattern
Often housewives try to do everything just so thatachieve a delicious taste, while forgetting about the appearance of the roll. This recipe will allow you to prepare a roll with a pattern quite simply and originally.
- For the test: 4 eggs, a glass of sugar (incomplete), 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar, 150 g of flour, 30 g of butter.
- For decoration: 8-10 tbsp. spoons of biscuit dough, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of milk, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa powder.
- For cream: 200 g of soft cheese (for example, ricotto) or fatty cottage cheese, 200 ml of sour cream, 100 g of sugar.
How to cook: Separate the yolks from the whites.Beat the yolks and half of the sugar and rub well. Mix the butter (melted in the microwave or in a water bath) with the mashed yolks, add vanilla sugar and rub thoroughly. Beat the whites until thick foam and add the second portion of sugar, carefully pour in the yolk mass. Stir the resulting mixture constantly. Pour the sifted flour with baking powder into this mass and stir. For decoration, set aside some of the dough and pour the rest onto a baking sheet. Add milk and cocoa to the dough for decoration. Pour the resulting mixture onto the white dough in blots. You can make a pattern using a toothpick. Bake the dough in a preheated oven to 200 ° C for 15-20 minutes. Place the hot biscuit with the pattern down and roll into a roll. Wait until the dough cools down and spread the cream over it.
Advice of experienced housewives
- Utensils for whipping the whites are absolutely clean and dry.
- When you get a stable foam, you need to stop beating, otherwise there will be bubbles that will stop the test from rising.
- Yolk and protein should be whisked simultaneously until the moment when the grains of sugar disappear and a uniform foam forms. A warm cooking method provides a biscuit dense structure.
- If you beat the proteins separately and they become watery, then add a pinch of salt, a drop of vinegar or citric acid to the mixture.
- To taste the roll was spicy, sprinkle the cognac on a hot dough.
- If you use a curd cheese recipe forputty, then the analog of Ricotto cheese can be made at home. To do this, you need to freeze 1 liter of kefir in the freezer until it turns into stone. Then transfer it to gauze, hang it or put it in a colander. When kefir will thaw, all the whey will come out of it, and only a soft curd will remain.