Chocolate roulade with redcurrants

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Good Table: Adventures In and Around My Kitchen

By Valentine Warner

Published 2013

  • About

Chic, rich and delicious, I hope chocolate roulade acknowledges her poor Swiss and Arctic cousins. I, certainly, will always defend both cousins from taunts of being low-brow, as I like them as well. This recipe contains no flour, so is perfect for those who avoid gluten. It is very light indeed, so I suggest you cut a big slice.

Ingredients

  • butter, softened, for greasing
  • 6 large free-range eggs, separated
  • 150 g caster sugar

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C fan/180°C/Gas 4. Line a 23cm x 33 cm Swiss roll tin with baking paper. Grease with a little butter and set aside.

Put the egg yolks and cas