French Silk Cake Roll

 
If you love traditional French Silk Pie you are going to LOVE it beautifully rolled up into chocolate cake! If you cant get enough French silk desserts give my French Silk Brownies a try!
Note to readers This French Silk Cake Roll contains raw eggs. And though getting sick from eating raw egg productsparticularly if youre very careful to use very fresh eggs that have been adequately refrigerated and that werent cracked in the cartonis relatively unlikely folks who are pregnant or have compromised immune systems might want to avoid it. You can also opt for pasteurized eggs.
French Silk Cake Roll
This cake is a fantastic combination of chocolate cake and french silk filling. Then it is topped with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles of course! It reminds me of an adult version of a hoho that I used to love eating as a kid! This French Silk Cake Roll is a bit fancier than serving up a storebought treat wrapped in plastic. There are a few parts to this recipe to make it all come togetherthe cake the French silk filling and the whipped cream topping.
How to Make Chocolate Cake
The base layer of the French Silk Cake Roll is the chocolate cake of course. To make the chocolate cake you will notice I use coffee in the recipe. Believe me its a gamechanger! It will not give the dessert a coffee flavor but if you are not a coffee drinker just use hot water in place of the coffee. Bake the cake in a parchment paperlined jelly roll pan. Leave some parchment paper over the edges of the pan so it is easy to take out of the pan before rolling it. If you are really concerned about the cake sticking at all feel free to spray the parchment paper with a nonstick spray before baking the cake.
How to Roll a Cake Roll
Once you have baked your chocolate cake for the French Silk Cake Roll its time to roll it! I prefer the dishtowel method when rolling cake. This means that sometimes the lessthanperfect top side of the cake will be on the inside of the roll not the out. Just follow these few steps.
Take a clean kitchen towel and lay it out on your cooking space. Sprinkle the towel with confectioners sugar Flip the baked cake while hot onto the towel. Be careful when removing the parchment Fold the