This is a great Peppermint Cake Roll recipe adapted from one I found years ago in Redbook Magazine. As usual, my pictures aren't that good, but the cake sure was. This one happens to be an ice cream cake roll, which means instead of the usual whipped cream filling it is made with ice cream.
Original Redbook Peppermint Cake Roll
Here's the original recipe from Redbook.
The version below is just my adapted version, though I really didn't change much. For the ice cream, I used vanilla ice cream with crushed peppermints stirred into it. If you don't want to use vanilla ice cream and crushed peppermints, you can use peppermint flavored ice cream or better yet, mint chocolate chip icing!
Recipe
Peppermint Cake Roll
For this recipe I use a stand mixer to beat the whites quickly and a handheld mixer to beat the egg yolks. If you have two stand mixer bowls you can do both things in the stand mixer. If you'd rather not pull out the stand mixer, you can do all the beating with the a handheld mixer.
Ingredients
- ½ cup cake flour 55 grams
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder 32 grams
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 5 large eggs separated and at room temperature
- ¾ cup granulated sugar divided use (150 grams)
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar for dusting
Filling:
- 4 cups vanilla ice cream
- ¾ cup crushed peppermints
Glaze:
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoon dark corn syrup
- 6 ounce bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chopped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Garnish with melted white chocolate if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a 15 ½ x 10 ½ x 1-inch jelly-roll pan cooking spray and line with parchment paper. Spray the parchment paper with more cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, combine cake flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attached, beat egg whites with an electric until foamy, then gradually beat in ½ cup (100 grams) of the granulated sugar. Beat on high speed until stiff yet not dry peaks form. Set aside. If you don't have a stand mixer, you can do this with a handheld.
- In another mixing bowl, using a handheld mixer, beat egg yolks with the remaining ¼ cup sugar and extract until thick and yellow, about 2 minutes.Add the flour mixture and stir with a spoon or scraper until blended.
- Using a scraper, fold ¼ of beaten egg whites into mixture to lighten, then fold in remaining whites in three parts. Spread in prepared pan; smooth top. Bake 10-12 minutes or until top springs back when gently pressed. Let cool 2 minutes on a wire rack. Sift confectioners' sugar over the top of the warm cake.
- Lay a clean dish towel over the cake, then lay another large cookie sheet over the dish towel, then flip so that cake is sitting on dish towel. Carefully peel off parchment paper.
- Starting from the short end, roll up the cake taking the towel along with it. Place the cake roll with the towel in it seam side down on wire rack; cool completely.
- When cake is cool, mix the vanilla ice cream with the chopped peppermint. Unroll cake and spread evenly with ice cream. Roll up cake. Wrap tightly in nonstick foil and freeze, seam side down, overnight until firm.
- Make Glaze: In a small saucepan, heat cream, chocolate, and corn syrup over low heat until chocolate is melted and glaze is shiny and smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in extract; cool to room temperature.
- Unwrap cake; trim ends. Place cake on a wire rack over waxed paper. Pour glaze along top of cake roll, spreading with a spatula to cover sides. Garnish cake with chopped peppermint
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Olga says
Thank you Anna.. im so excited about the roll type cake...i think i have printed like 13 recipes.. ha ha i want to make one to practice..i still want to make the birthday one with icecream.. and for the rehearsal cake... i found this idea of a lemon curd filling im thinking i could also put pastry cream like in the golf club lemon cake :p.. i really can't wait to try my mother in law looooves al lemony things so she would help me getting rid of it he he.. Unfortunately for my baking crabings, Im moving, everything is in my new house now but piled up in the living room so it wont be posible for me at least for another week.. i hope.
Kerstin says
Looks like the perfect cake for the holidays! Merry Christmas Anna!
Chelsey Green says
Lookings daring but delicious! I love peppermint everything especially at this time of year!
With love and cupcakes,
Cookteen
P.S --check out my blog...Cookteen.blogspot.com
Gloria says
Chocolate and mint together-can't go wrong! This looks delicious. It is a perfect dessert all year round... for now as something refreshing after all the heavy meals and in the summer since it is an ice cream cake!! I'll bet any flavor icecream would work. I'm thinking coffee or mocha right now since I need a jolt!
HeartofGlass says
Oh gosh, that looks AMAZING--and really, really unique. I don't think I've ever seen a peppermint roll, even though it seems so logical--Yule Long + Candy Cane.
I love jelly rolls, too, because it's an excuse to eat extra frosting 🙂
Are you getting 'the snow?'
Sue says
This looks like a festive treat! I looked at recipes to make buche de noel this year, but settled on something else.
Katrina says
Hey, it looks like it turned out great and I often see cake rolls with nothing on the top. Love the extra ganache and it looks very Buche de Noel-ish!
Anna says
The log shape is traditional Christmas cake called a Buche de Noel or Yule Log, but you can make a jellyroll type cake for any occasion. Maybe for New Years you could fill it with mashed up black eye peas.
Just kidding.
tracieMoo says
What a great celebration roll! Ice cream sounds really great for the festive. Don't you think it will be great if I made this for new year? I've already bookmarked this recipe! thankyou for sharing 🙂
Have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!