Shelly's Recipe

ORANGE ROLL UP CAKE

Category: Cakes

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
6 tbsp orange juice
1 cup sifted cake flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup confectioners sugar

FILLING:
1 1/4 cups orange juice
1 egg yolk, slightly beaten
1/2 cup sugar
3 tbsp Cornstarch
2 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp salt

FOR CAKE: Grease and flour a jelly roll pan, preheat oven to 375. Beat eggs until light and lemon-colored; add sugar gradually, beating until mixture is very thick. add the orange juice and mix until blended. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the mixture, mixing only enough to blend smoothly.

Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 20 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Sift confectioners' sugar on wax paper (or parchment paper); turn out cake onto wax paper and roll up as for jelly roll.

FOR FILLING: In a small bowl add 1/4 cup orange juice to the beaten egg yolk; add sugar and Cornstarch and mix thoroughly. Heat remaining orange juice in medium saucepan; and add egg mixture slowly, stirring constantly with wire whisk. Stir until thickened; cook over medium heat 5 minutes more, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add butter and salt; cool.

When cake and filling are both cooled, unroll cake; spread filling evenly over cake. Roll up as for jelly roll (without waxed paper) and dust top with confectioners' sugar. Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.