Swiss roll — recipes

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Swiss roll

Ingredients

For 10 people

  • 160g of flour
  • 200g of sugar
  • 6 eggs

Preparation

  1. Whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks
  2. In a bowl, beat the egg yolks with the caster sugar. Fold in 80 g of flour and half of the beaten whites. Mix then pour in the rest of the flour and the beaten whites.
  3. Preheat the oven to 200°c. Place the sheet of aluminium foil on the tray and butter it. Pour the batter evenly.
  4. Bake for 10 minutes. Let it cool.
  5. Carefully turn the cake out onto a damp tea towel. Gently remove the aluminium foil.
  6. Roll the cake up in the damp tea towel and chill for 1 hour. Unroll and fill as you like.