Tart lemon jelly roll
Tart lemon jelly roll recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 5 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
- Clear lemon jelly filling:
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 4 drops yellow food color, optional
Recipe method:
- Grease and flour a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inch jelly roll pan.
- Beat with rotary beater until thick 3 large eggs.
- Gradually beat in 1 cup sugar.
- Beat in all at once water and vanilla.
- Sift together and beat in all at once flour, baking powder and salt.
- Beat just until smooth.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake just until cake tests done at 375 degrees F for 12 to 15 minutes.
- Loosen edges and immediately turn upside down on a towel sprinkled with confectioners sugar.
- Spread cake at once with clear lemon jelly filling and roll up beginning at short end.
- Wrap in towel.
- Clear lemon jelly filling:
- Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt in saucepan.
- Stir in water gradually.
- Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils.
- Boil and stir 1 minute. Remove from heat.
- Add lemon peel and margarine.
- Stir in lemon juice and food color. Cool.
- If filling is too soft, refrigerate until set.
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