Let me start this New Year with a delicious chocolate cake. I have been trying to make swiss roll for so many days now. Making a perfect roll without any cracks is a great challenge. And I have been failing badly in it. When I saw a recipe for chocolate swiss roll, I noted that recipe and tried it on one fine day. And like all the attempts, even this failed and I was left with a bowl full of cake crumbs. I didn’t want to make cake pops again. So I searched the net for recipes to use up the cake crumbs and chanced upon a video by Bhavana. That video gave me an idea for these rolls.
You can use up all your cake crumbs after a cake project or can make a cake just for the sake of these rolls. I have used dark chocolate ganache to bring together the crumbs and used my Chocolate cream cheese frosting as the filling for the roll. But the variations are endless. Use any butter cream or whipped cream as filling and fresh fruits added to the filling will make it even better. Slice the roll in chilled stage but serve at room temperature to relish a nice soft and fudgy roll.
I am including the recipe for the chocolate cake too. But feel free to use any cake recipe of your choice. I haven’t added any frosting on top as I was not sure how it would be. But if you want more chocolate, drizzle some thin ganache on top or cover with a thick ganache. Unfortunately I haven’t taken photos of the cake, so my step wise pictures start with the crumbs. Sending this to Kid’s Delight – Cakes and Cookies hosted by Vidya and started by Srivalli.
Ingredients:
For The Cake:
Flour/ Maida – 1 cup + 3 tbs
Cocoa Powder – 3 tbs
Granulated Sugar – 3/4 cups
Baking Powder – 1 tsp
Baking Soda – 1/4 tsp
Salt – 1/3 tsp
Butter – 3 1/2 tbs
Milk -m 3/4 cup
Vinegar – 1/2 tbs
Vanilla – 1 tsp
Dark Chocolate Ganache (click for recipe) – 1/2 cup
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting (click for recipe) – 1 cup
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 175C.
In a bowl mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt.
Add in melted butter, milk, vinegar and vanilla.
Grease and line a 9″ * 13″ tray and pour the batter. Spread it evenly.
Bake for 20 – 25 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
Allow it to cool in the pan.
Remove the cake and crumble it to fine crumbs.
Add ganache and knead to a soft dough.
Place it between two parchment sheets and roll it into a thick rectangle.
Spread the filling on the rectangle.
Starting from the longer side, roll the rectangle to a log making sure that there are no cracks on the surface.
Once the log is ready, wrap it in cling film and refrigerate until firm.
Slice it into 1″ slices.
Allow it to come to room temperature before serving.

Eggless Cake Roll Recipe
Ingredients
For The Cake
- cup Flour/ Maida - 1+ 3 tbs
- Cocoa Powder - 3 tbs
- Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cups
- Baking Powder - 1 tsp
- Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
- Salt - 1/3 tsp
- Butter - 3 1/2 tbs
- Milk -m 3/4 cup
- Vinegar - 1/2 tbs
- Vanilla - 1 tsp
- Dark Chocolate Ganache - 1/2 cup click for recipe
- Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting - 1 cup click for recipe
Instructions
Procedure
- Preheat oven to 175C.
- In a bowl mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt.
- Add in melted butter, milk, vinegar and vanilla.
- Grease and line a 9" * 13" tray and pour the batter. Spread it evenly.
- Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow it to cool in the pan.
- Remove the cake and crumble it to fine crumbs.
- Add ganache and knead to a soft dough.
- Place it between two parchment sheets and roll it into a thick rectangle.
- Spread the filling on the rectangle.
- Starting from the longer side, roll the rectangle to a log making sure that there are no cracks on the surface.
- Once the log is ready, wrap it in cling film and refrigerate until firm.
- Slice it into 1" slices.
- Allow it to come to room temperature before serving.
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So innovative mam!! Thank u for such an awsme recipe! Bt can I make this in convection microwave?
Yes, you can..
What a sinful roll Gayathri…that roll looks divine man!…will be trying it soon..thanks for the idea..
Thank you so much Gayatri for the lovely recipe.
Can you please give the recipe for cake roll with simple vanilla cake with jelly filling please.
Also if we don’t want to use chocolate filling in this chocolate roll just cream filling, how do we make that?
Really love all your recipes, keep posting.
God Bless!
Hi Neha, thanks a lot. Use this as the base idea for different flavours. And you can easily substitute cream for chocolate frosting I have used.
Thanks dear!
I just wanted to know what to mix in the vanilla crumbs to make it like a dough for cake roll?
Any butter cream frosting.
Love the look of this roll. All that chocolate sounds delicious!
Cute looking roll,nice way to use the cake crumbs.
Wonderful roll Gayathri but I can’t take that much chocolate so going to try this with vanilla base lovely…
Wow, wat a brilliant idea to finish those crumbs, and this cake roll looks absolutely stunning, am sure now none will throw the leftover crumbs.
Such an innovative and yummy cake roll Gayathri.
as per your video, i tried the leopard print, but something went wrong.
my querry is that do we have to frost the cake first after applying glaze, or directly do the process of leopard printng ?
You need to frost the cake, add the glaze and swipe the glaze to get the prints..
Sinfully delicious rolls. Yum yum yum.
I shall make these rolls tomorrow itself, I have crumbs as well as ganache in my frig, awesome Gayathri, I wish I could pick one right away.
I always have trouble making Swill roll. This is a great no-fail option that looks exactly like the real thing. Will try this some time.
That roll is just so amazing! Wish I could eat some now.
Amazing looking cake roll there!
Lovely recipe… bookmarked
Hi , I tried the making Swiss roll with cake crumbs I mixed with ganache still cracks are coming whole rolling it out on the parchment. It means what I need to put more ganache or less ganache or what I need to do. Please help me
You might need a little more ganache.
I am unable to make smooth Swiss roll. Do I need to add more ganache for smooth roll.
Yes, add more ganache and it will be tough for a first try. But it comes with practise.
Thank you so much for sharing such a lovely recipe hope to try it soon