Flourless Chocolate Roll Recipes

Steps:

• Place egg whites in a small bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. In a large bowl, beat egg yolks on high speed until light and fluffy. Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar, beating until thick and lemon-colored. Stir in vanilla. combine the flour, cocoa and salt; add to egg yolk mixture until blended., Beat egg whites on medium until foamy. Add cream of tartar; beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high until stiff peaks form. Stir a fourth of the egg white mixture into chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining egg white mixture. , Line a greased 15x10x1-n. baking pan with parchment; grease the paper. Spread batter evenly in pan. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched in center (do not overbake). Cool for 5 minutes; invert onto a kitchen towel dusted with confectioners' sugar. Gently peel off parchment. Roll up cake in the towel jelly-roll style, starting with a short side. Cool completely on a wire racks., In a large bowl, beat cream and confectioners' sugar until stiff peaks form; chill. Unroll cake; spread with whipped cream to within 1/2 in. of edges. Roll up again. Place seam down on serving platter; chill. Dust with additional confectioners' sugar before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease one 10 inch round cake pan and set aside.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat combine the water, salt and sugar. Stir until completely dissolved and set aside.
• Either in the top half of a double boiler or in a microwave oven melt the bittersweet chocolate. Pour the chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer.
• Cut the butter into pieces and beat the butter into the chocolate, 1 piece at a time. Beat in the hot sugar-water. Slowly beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Have a pan larger than the cake pan ready, put the cake pan in the larger pan and fill the pan with boiling water halfway up the sides of the cake pan.
• Bake cake in the water bath at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet. Chill cake overnight in the pan. To unmold, dip the bottom of the cake pan in hot water for 10 seconds and invert onto a serving plate.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a jelly-roll pan. Line it with wax paper or parchment paper and butter the paper.
• Melt the chocolate with the coffee until smooth and let cool. This can be done in a double boiler or in the microwave. Using the microwave, only do this a minute at a time.My microwave only takes a minute and half to melt the chocolate. It may not appear completely melted but once you stir it finishes melting. You don't want to burn the chocolate.
• Separate the egg yolks and egg whites into two separate bowls.
• In the mixer beat the egg yolks until they are smooth. Then add 2/3 cup of the sugar a little at a time and beat the mixture until it falls in a ribbon when the beater is lifted. Set aside.
• In another bowl, beat the egg whites with the salt until they are frothy.
• Add the cream of tartar and beat the egg whites until they hold soft peaks.
• Add the remaining sugar a little at a time and beat the whites until they are stiff peaks.
• Combine the egg yolks with the chocolate mixture.
• Stir in 1/4 of the whites then fold in the remaining egg white mixture gently but thoroughly.
• Spoon the batter onto the jelly-roll pan. Spread it evenly and bake the cake in the middle of the oven for 15 minutes or until a cake tester inserted comes out clean.
• Turn the oven off and open the oven door. Let the cake stand in the oven for 5 minutes.
• Transfer the pan to a rack. Cover the cake with dampened paper towels and let the cake cook to room temperature. About 15 minutes.
• Remove the towels and run a knife along the side to release the wax/parchment paper.
• Cover the top of the cake with another piece of parchment/wax paper and a baking sheet.
• Invert the cake onto the baking sheet and peel the wax paper off the top.
• MAKING THE FILLING:.
• In a saucepan combine the heavy cream with the chocolate and cook. Stirring until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is slightly thickened. Transfer the mixture to the mixer bowl and chill. Do not let it solidify.
• After it has cooled, beat the chocolate cream until it forms soft peaks and stir in the coffee. I will also add a tsp of vanilla.
• Spread the filling over the cake leaving about a 1 inch border.
• Starting with the long side, roll up the cake jelly-roll style, lifting it with the wax paper and finishing with the seam side down.
• Just before I roll it to the end I move it to the platter then pull the last bit of wax paper out.
• Chill the roll covered loosely. Before serving, trim the ends and sprinkle with powdered sugar. You can also make this with the semi sweet then take the dark chocolate making another batch of the ganache. While it is in the thick pudding like state, pour it over the roll. Allow that to set up Then slice.I would do that at the point that it needs to be chilled.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a 10x15 inch jellyroll pan with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whip cream, 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup cocoa, and 1 teaspoon vanilla until thick and stiff. Refrigerate.
• In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar until thick and pale. Blend in 1/3 cup cocoa, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, and salt. In large glass bowl, using clean beaters, whip egg whites to soft peaks. Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, and beat until whites form stiff peaks. Immediately fold the yolk mixture into the whites. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the cake springs back when lightly touched. Dust a clean dishtowel with confectioners' sugar. Run a knife around the edge of the pan, and turn the warm cake out onto the towel. Remove and discard parchment paper. Starting at the short edge of the cake, roll the cake up with the towel. Cool for 30 minutes.
• Unroll the cake, and spread the filling to within 1 inch of the edge. Roll the cake up with the filling inside. Place seam side down onto a serving plate, and refrigerate until serving. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.