STRAWBERRY CREAMCHEESE CAKE ROLL 7 AUGUST 2022
The 3-Ingredient Key Lime Pie lasted all of two days, and I have two quarts of strawberries staring at me every time I open the fridge, so I looked for something to make with strawberries that weren't puréed. This looked like fun & different . . . . . . and I'll take the cream cheese out of the fridge early enough this time. Then I saw this . . . . . . so I thought to combine the two recipes. (This will be good practice for the Bûche de Noël . . . . . . I'd like to make this Christmas.) The [hand] mixing station . . . . . . the decorative strawberries . . . . . . the towel with powdered sugar sifted onto it . . . . . . . into which I immediately stuck my hand as I reached for my glass of water. Into the fridge for 30 minutes . . . Unfortunately, the entire thing 1) took double the time to bake; and 2) broke in half as I tried to flip it. But I persisted; made the cream cheese filling, added strawberries . . .
. . . discovered that Gipsy had snuck into the kitchen and was hiding under the table, hoping another strawberry would fall off the table . . .
. . . and realized I didn't have a rectangular plate for this . . . . . . which didn't matter 'cause it all broke apart anyway. HOWEVER, it tastes delicious, and I keep pulling off pieces of it to eat. Luckily for me, looks don't affect flavor! Is this a Keeper? Definitely, with some changes: * Do some arm exercises so that I can whisk by hand for longer * Try using my food processor (that 30-year-old Cusinart) with the slicing blade to slice the strawberries * Use a smaller jelly roll pan. None of the recipes I checked mentioned a pan size, so I used the largest of the three sizes I have; the cake was so thin it broke apart because of those fancy-schmancy decorations I took from the other recipe * Eliminate the fancy-schmancy decorations * Use parchment paper instead of a kitchen towel (the towel was such a mess, I just threw it away) * Sift powdered sugar over the cake before rolling it up * Find a rectagular dish, just in case it DOES become a roll, rather than a mound * Double the amount of filling to use half as frosting * Remember to keep back some strawberries for decorating the top * Rename this recipe as Strawberry Creamcheese Cake MOUND
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