Light Jelly Roll Cake

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup cake-and-pastry flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 whole fruit jelly or jam

Recipe

• 1 beat eggs until foamy, then beat in sugar.
• 2 sift flour, baking powder and salt together and beat into egg mixture.
• 3 blend in vanilla.
• 4 grease a jelly roll pan, 17 by 11 inches.
• 5 spread with wax paper, grease paper, then sprinkle with flour.
• 6 pour batter into prepared pan and bake in oven preheated to 400 degrees until cake springs back when pressed with finger, 10 - 20 minutes.
• 7 turn cake out onto tea towel sprinkled with icing sugar.
• 8 roll up the shorter side, using towel to push cake into place, then unroll, trim off crisp edges, spread with jelly or jam, and roll up. eat ends yourself.
• 9 let cool on rack.
• 10 ice with a chocolate butter icing if desired, i like it dusted with powdered sugar.