Rainbow Swiss Roll Recipes

RAINBOW YULE LOG

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C /160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 23cm x 33cm Swiss roll tin with baking parchment.
• Beat together the eggs and caster sugar with an electric hand whisk until pale, thick and doubled in volume. Working quickly, divide between 6 bowls and stir a colouring paste into each portion.
• Sift the flour and baking powder into a separate bowl and combine evenly. Sprinkle 3 tbsp of the flour mixture over each portion of the egg mixture. Drizzle with a little of the melted butter. Fold together very gently, taking care not to knock out the air.
• Gently spoon each mixture into separate piping bags, then cut off each tip to create a 2cm hole. Pipe lines of the mixture diagonally across the Swiss roll tin in a rainbow pattern, making sure the lines touch each other. Continue until the tin is full and the mixture is used up. Bake for 12 mins, or until springy and dry to the touch.
• Place a large piece of baking parchment onto a clean surface and sprinkle with caster sugar, then turn the cake out onto it. Remove the lining paper and loosely roll up the sponge from the short side, with the sugared paper rolling along with it. Cover with a damp tea towel and leave on a wire rack to cool completely.
• For the whipped cream filling, beat the cream with an electric hand whisk until soft peaks form. Add the icing sugar and vanilla extract and whisk briefly until just combined.
• Gently unroll the cake and remove the paper. Spread the cream filling evenly across and reroll. Trim the ends if any cream leaks. Dust with icing sugar before serving.

SWISS ROLL

Steps:

• Despite appearances, Swiss rolls are in fact very simple to make. The cake itself has no butter in it, so you can feel justified in spreading it with lashings of jam and whipped cream. Use any kind of jam you like; apricot or blackberry, for instance, would do just as well as raspberry or strawberry.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Line the base of a 10 by 15-inches Swiss roll or jelly roll pan with greaseproof or parchment paper. Brush the base and sides of the pan with melted butter, and dust with flour.
• In a large bowl or in an electric food mixer, whisk the eggs, and sugar together, until light and fluffy, and then add the water, and vanilla extract.
• Sift in the flour, about a third at a time, and using a large metal spoon, fold it into the egg mixture.
• Pour the mixture gently into the prepared pan, and bake in the oven until the center of the cake is slightly springy and the edges have shrunk a little from the sides of the tin, about 12 to 15 minutes.
• Spread out a piece of parchment paper (slightly larger than the tin in size) on a work surface and sprinkle evenly with caster sugar (this stops the roll from sticking to the paper). Turn or invert the pan onto the sugared parchment paper, and then carefully remove the tin and parchment paper from the bottom of the cake.
• Place a slightly damp, clean tea or kitchen towel over the cake while it cools- this will prevent it from drying out and cracking when you roll it.
• When the cake is cool, spread the jam sparingly over the cake, leaving a 1-inch border. Repeat with the whipped cream. With the longest side facing you, roll up the Swiss roll away from you, then transfer to a plate to serve. Sprinkle the cake with caster sugar or dust with icing sugar to finish.

RAINBOW ROLLS

Steps:

• Dust your largest baking sheet or tray with flour. Mix the flours, yeast, oats, seeds, nuts, bicarbonate and 2 tsp salt in a bowl, then rub in the butter with your fingers until it almost disappears.
• Pour in the buttermilk and 150-200ml water and mix quickly with a wooden spoon, then your hands, to form a dough. Divide into 3 and knead a grated veg into each to make a courgette dough, a carrot dough and a beet dough. Form each into 6 rounds with floured hands. Arrange, spaced apart, on the baking tray, cover loosely with oiled cling film, and leave to rise somewhere warm for 30 mins.
• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Brush the tops with milk or egg, scatter with extra seeds and bake for 30-35 mins until the bases are pale golden and sound hollow when tapped. Cover with a tea towel and leave to cool a bit - this will keep them soft.