There’s much excitement in the Costello Household tonight – Series 4 of The Great British Bake Off is back! My girls have dictated that we MUST be sat down at 8PM to watch together. Of course, for any important viewing there has to be snacks – I’ve heard a little rumour that tonight is Cake night and Swiss Rolls may feature. So I’ve made my own – Looks horrendous doesn’t it?
I present to you the brightest Swiss Roll you’ll see tonight – Its not as risen as I’d like but that is due to some over zealous stirring when I was adding the colouring. Its based on my previous Swiss Roll which is a recipe I love but I wanted a summery version. We are off on a picnic tomorrow so this will no doubt be joining us.
There’s still time to have a go before series 4 starts at 8PM. Here’s how:
| Serves | 10 |
| Prep time | 20 minutes |
| Cook time | 11 minutes |
| Total time | 31 minutes |
| Meal type | Dessert |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Serve Cold |
| Occasion | Barbecue, Birthday Party, Casual Party |
INGREDIENTS
- 125g Caster Sugar (plus 2 Tablespoons of extra sugar for decoration)
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1 Zest Lemon (plus half of its juice)
- 1 Zest Lime (plus half of its juice)
- 125g Plain Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 5 tablespoons Marmalade (I used Lemon & Lime)
- 284ml Double Cream (Whipped until thick)
DIRECTIONS
| 1. | |
| Preheat the oven to 200C. Line a baking tray or Swiss Roll tray with Baking parchment. | |
| 2. | |
| Sprinkle the extra caster sugar evenly over the baking tray – the cake will bake on top of this | |
| 3. | |
| Using an electric mixer, whisk the eggs and the sugar until thick, pale and fluffy | |
| 4. | |
| Add the zest and the juice – slowly folding through | |
| 5. | |
| Sift the flour & baking powder and fold in gently | |
| 6. | |
| Divide the mixture in half and colour one half yellow (mine is a bit orangey) and the other green. | |
| 7. | |
| Pour the mixture into 2 piping bags and snip a small hole at the top – Pipe even stripes lengthways down the tray. Hopefully your mixture won’t be as runny as mine. | |
| 8. | |
| Bake for 11 minutes and remove from the oven. | |
| 9. | |
| As soon as the cake is cool enough to handle, roll up – its ok to do this with the baking paper still attached. It will unroll but this will still make it easier to roll when it is fully cooled. | |
| 10. | |
| As soon as fully cooled, spread the marmalade and the cream and roll as tight as possible – Ta-Dah! | |
I am an absolutely rubbish baker, but Rowan had sat next to me reading this and wants that cake. So I guess I’m gonna give it a go!
It does not look awful! It looks amazing and I need to make it. It’s brilliant 😀
Wow your Swiss Roll looks amazing, well done:-)
this is ruddy marvellous and not awful in the slightest! it most def has the wow factor! I love how not only have you combined 2 different favours but 2 differnt colours too! amazing
thank you for linkign up x x x
Wow, that is a complete showstopper Helen!
Nothing awful about that beauty! I love lemon and lime flavours together. Bet it vanished at the picnic in minutes.
Ooo this look so refreshing! I want some! Hm ever since I started baking as an adult (ie not Home Economics at school) I haven’t tried making Swiss Roll, it used to be my favourite recipe but now I’m just scared it will break lol. Might give it a go again!
Oooh this looks so yummy and a great way to create a cake with two colours x
That is the coolest swiss roll I have ever seen! So summery 😀
Wow! I love love love the colours in that!! Beautiful. I’ve not been watching gbbo for a while but I saw the first series and was suitably dragged in. I bet it’s heaven for you!!
X x
It looks great! And I was watching #extraslice last night where they said some on the program rose too much so wouldn’t roll properly – so yours looks about perfect 🙂
It doesn’t look horrendous, it looks amazing! Love the colours! #GreatBloggersBakeOff2014
I know these colours suggest it’s a dessert for kids but hey, we can all be kids, at least while eating tasty desserts 🙂
That looks great and sounds delicious.