Strawberry and Earl Grey Roulade |
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8-10 slices |
1h 10mins + cooling |
Chill for 2h |
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Ingredients |
3 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp loose leaf earl grey tea (or an opened teabag)
4 eggs, separated
75g caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
75g plain flour
2 tbsp sunflower oil
a few drops of orange extract (optional)
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Filling
2 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsp icing sugar
300ml whipping cream
15 medium-large strawberries
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Heat oven to 180C/ Fan 160C/
Gas 4. Line the base of a 25 x 35cm Swiss roll tin or
shallow baking tray with baking parchment. Mix the lemon
juice with 1 tbsp of the tea and warm until piping hot (in
a mug in a microwave is easiest - just watch it doesn't
boil over). Leave for a few minutes, stirring every so
often to draw out as much flavour as possible. Crush the
remaining tea with a pestle and mortar, or whizz with the
flour in a food processor to break it up a bit.
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Beat the egg yolks with 25g of
the sugar until pale and frothy, then mix in the flour,
oil, remaining crushed tea leaves and the tea infused
lemon juice - strained through a sieve. Stir in the orange
extract, if using.
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Clean the beaters and beat the
egg whites in another bowl to soft peaks. Add the
remaining sugar and continue beating until thick and
glossy. Gently fold the meringue mixture into the other
mixture in thirds until most streaks have disappeared.
Spread into the tin as smoothly as you can and bake for
about 13 mins.
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Lay a large sheet of baking
parchment on your work surface and flip the cake
onto it. Peel off the lining paper, then flip the cake a
second time onto a new sheet of baking parchment dusted
liberally with caster sugar so the cake is now sitting
back up the way it was baked. Roll up the cake from one of
the longest edges with the paper and leave to cool.
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Once completely cool,
carefully unroll the cake. Make the filling by beating the
cream with the lemon juice and the icing sugar until it is
just holding shape. Trim the tops off the strawberries,
plus enough of the pointy bottom ends so that the
strawberries can sandwich together in a relatively even
line along the length of your cake. Roll back up
completely from the strawberry-lined edge so you have a
Swiss roll with the strawberries sitting in the centre.
Chill for 2 hours to settle and stick together before
neatly slicing to serve.
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