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Old South Jelly Roll Cake

By Paula Deen

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Difficulty: Medium

Prep time: 20 minutes

Cook time: 20 minutes

Servings: 20

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup sifted cake flour
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 4 separated eggs
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • sifted, for dusting confectioner's sugar
  • 1 cup stirred well jam or jelly
  • whipped cream

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 °F.

In a small bowl beat egg whites until stiff but not dry and set aside. In another bowl, beat the egg yolks until light. Gradually add the sugar and vanilla, and mix well.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the sifted flour mixture to the egg yolk mixture. Fold in the egg whites into the egg mixture and pour the batter into a 15x10x1-inch jelly roll pan lined with wax paper.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until cake is golden

Loosen edges of cake, invert cake onto a towel dusted with confectioners sugar. Gently peel wax paper off cake. Trim 1/4-inch of hard crust off each long side of the jelly roll cake. Begin with the narrow side and roll the cake and towel up together. Cool cake on rack seam side down for 10 to 15 minutes.

Once cake has cooled, gently unroll and spread cake with jam or jelly and re-roll. Sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar or cover with whipped cream.

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Sonya Brown

March 12, 2012
Mrs. Paula can you use all purpose flour or self rising flour instead of cake flour better yet what exactly is cake flour. Thank You Oh I just yall

Jonathan Able

June 09, 2011
Hi Brend, Yes, it is supposed to be 3/4 cup.

Brenda

June 02, 2011
On the "Old South Jelly Roll Cake" recipe, the 1st ingredient says 3/4 cake flour, sifted. Is that 3/4 cup? It doesn't say 3/4 what.

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