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Cake Roll
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
13 mins
Total Time
28 mins
 
This is one of my all-time favorite easy desserts to use fresh fruit in season, yummy!!!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
Filling
  • 4 ounces cream cheese (softened)
  • 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 cups thawed Cool Whip
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Beat the eggs until they are frothy. Add the sugar and mix until thick. Fold in the dry ingredients. Add the vanilla. Grease a cookie sheet and cover the cookie sheet with waxed paper. Grease the waxed paper. Spread the batter evenly on the cookie sheet and bake for 13 minutes. Turn the cake upside down on a kitchen towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Peel off the waxed paper and roll the cake up with the towel while hot. Cool. Spread with filling and roll back up. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and refrigerate until cold. Please note: you can use food coloring to make all different colors of cake with different fillings.
  2. Fillings: Lemon pudding, Danish dessert with strawberries or raspberries, vanilla or banana pudding, ice cream (soften the ice cream then spread on cake and put the cake in the freezer) keep the other cake rolls in the refrigerator until ready to serve covered with plastic wrap.

    Cream Cheese Filling: Combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and Cool Whip, mix until smooth with a hand mixer, spread evenly on cake, roll up and refrigerate.