In Italian it's called: Rotolo Marmellata
It has lots of Jelly and fresh fruit as a garnish - you can change this recipe up in many ways. You can add different types of Jelly (or even pudding or chocolate if you want to make a dairy dessert) and garnish with any type of fruit you want. The main recipe is easy, the ingredients are household ingredients, and it's quick to make. The rolling is a bit tricky - but we did it!
As we continue with this blog - we are styling more and even shooting some of the photos ourselves!
Enjoy!
Emma & Alexa
The Dairy Free Girls
Alexa styling for the Equipment Shot
Equipment Shot - Reynolds Wrap Quick Release, Margarine, Cookie Sheet with elevated sides, A Clean Tea Towel
Emma and Alexa styling the Ingredient Shot
The Ingredients: Eggs, Sugar, Flour, Jelly, Baking Powder, Fresh Strawberries
Alexa cracking eggs - she is now an expert and can do it with one hand! Check out the one handed cracks! Go Alexa go!
Expert! Use 4 eggs
add 8 tablespoons of sugar to the 4 eggs and whisk until light yellow
Playing around with close up action shots of falling sugar!
We like to take turns whisking! Emma....
And Alexa....
Checking to see if it's lump-free
Blog Pause:
Emma took over the camera - and shot this photo of Alexa
This one too of Alexa measuring the baking soda and pouring it in the bowl
Use 2 teaspoons baking powder
Use 2 teaspoons baking powder
Measuring in the flour. Use 3.5 ounces of Flour
You need some muscles for this! Mix mix till it's not lumpy!
Emma preps the foil on the pan for baking
So carefully and precise!
Alexa gets to grease the pan with the margarine
4 hands are better than 2! Sister power! Spreading the batter in the pan
Delicious! Bake for 15-20 mins at 350
As the cake portion bakes - Take the tea towel and wet it - Emma is very good at this
Squeeze out the water!
As much as you can (More muscles needed here!)
Lay out the damp towel on a counter top
Sprinkle sugar around the towel - it will be crystal sugar flavor on the top of the jelly roll
Emma is using a spoon to sprinkle
Pat pat....
Wash the strawberries (or whatever fresh fruit you will use as a garnish)
Blog pause - sister love!
Remove cake from the oven
Turn the cake over on the damp tea towel covered in sugar sprinkles
Begin adding Jelly - we used Apricot and Strawberry
Keep spreading across
Sharing the work!
Alexa thought the 3 layers of jelly looked like the flag of Spain :)
This is the hard part - so Mom came in to help us roll
Grab the front of the cake and start rolling without rolling up the tea towel
A bit messy - but Emma helped out and we did it!
Almost done! Once fully rolled keep the towel over it till it's room temperature. Then remove and begin to garnish
We did it! OK, now to make it look pretty!
Decorate with fresh fruit
Add powdered sugar!
Beautiful colors!
Ta dah!
Time to cut and eat!
This recipe took us less than 30 minutes! No butter, and plenty of fruit makes this a
healthier cake alternative!
Thumbs up from Emma...
Alexa was too busy eating! I guess that's a thumbs up too!
