Description
This gingerbread cake roll is a delightful treat with warm and comforting flavors. It’s a moist and fluffy cake filled with a delicious spiced cream, all rolled up into a beautiful and festive spiral.
Ingredients
Scale
Cake Roll Ingredients
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- 4 eggs (room temperature, seperated)
- ¼ cup molasses (not blackstrap)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
Filling
- 1 12 ounce package cream cheese
- 6 Tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 Tablespoon bourbon or rum or ½ teaspoon rum flavoring
- 1 ½ cup confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
Cake Roll Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375° and place an oven rack on the upper middle rung. Line a 10×15 inch jelly roll pan with parchment paper and spray with non-stick cooking spray. **Measure the parchment paper to about 4 inches longer than the pan on one end.
- In a bowl combine cake flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice.
- Separate the eggs, the whites in a large bowl, and the yellows in a separate large bowl.
- Beat the whites with a hand mixer till stiff peaks form.
- Stir flour into sugar mixture until smooth, then gently fold in the egg whites just until combined.
- Pour into the pan and spread into the corners.
- Place in the oven and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove the cake from the oven and spray the long end of the parchment paper with non-stick cooking spray, then fold over the cake.
- While cake is still hot, roll up the cake beginning at the end with the parchment folded over.
- Cool rolled cake on a cooking rack until completely cooled for about 30-40 minutes.
Filling Instructions
- Using a hand mixer, cream the cream cheese with the butter, then beat in the bourbon.
- Next beat in the powdered sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.
- Unroll the cooled cake and spread the icing over the entire cake. Roll the cake back up, removing the parchment paper as you roll.
- Dust with confectioners sugar and garnish with sprigs of rosemary and sugared cranberries.
- Slice to serve.