Cream Roll

Name: Cream Roll (Brazo de Gitana)
Cuisine: Puerto Rican
Ingredients: 2 egg yolks; ¾ cup sugar; ¼ teaspoon salt; Peel of 1 small fresh lime; 1⅓ cups sifted flour; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons baking powder; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; ⅓ cup water, chilled; 4 eggs; ½ teaspoon fresh lime juice; Confectioners’ powdered sugar, sifted (for garnishing); 1⅓ cups sugar; 2 cups milk; ⅓ cup cornstarch

Brazo de Gitana

Preparation info

Serves
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

About

Recipe makes a large cream roll, that should be divided into two 9-inch rolls.

Ingredients

A

Cake

1⅓ cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½

Americas
Dessert
Vegetarian
Puerto Rico
Cake
Caribbean

Method

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Grease with oleomargarine an 18 x 12 x 1-inch aluminum pan. Line with brown paper and grease paper generously with oleomargarine.
Sift together dry ingredients included in A 3 times, and reserve.