With another school year drawing to a close, you'll want to make sure your young graduate gets his just desserts - such as a jelly roll diploma wrapped in a fruit leather bow.
Ingredients
- 2 eggs plus 1 egg white
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- Jelly
- 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 3 tbsp. butter,softened
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- Decorator's gel
- Fruit leather
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a 15- x 10-inch jelly roll pan with waxed paper and grease the paper well.
- In a bowl, beat the eggs and egg white with an electric mixer on high speed for 5 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of the vanilla extract, then gradually beat in the sugar at low speed. Stir in the dry ingredients until well mixed.
- Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 12 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Invert the hot cake onto a clean towel sprinkled with confectioners' sugar; remove the waxed paper. Trim the cake edges with a sharp knife (adults only) and roll up the hot cake and towel from a narrow end. Let it cool on a wire rack.
- Unroll the cooled cake, remove the towel, and spread on jelly, leaving a 2-inch strip at one end plain. Reroll the jelly-covered portion of the cake.
- In a bowl, beat together the cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar, and the last 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and use to frost the cake.
- Use decorator's gel to pipe "roll lines" on the cake ends and the class year or your child's name onto the unrolled portion. Finally, add a fruit leather bow.
