This Pandan Swiss Roll Cake is made with fresh pandan juice, no artificial flavor or coloring is added. The texture of the pandan swiss roll is soft, moist, and spongy, it can be rolled up easily and nicely.
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The Pandan Swiss Roll Cake is a colorful dessert that smells as good as it tastes. A popular treat in many Southeast Asian countries, this luscious roll cake features the distinct flavor of pandan leaves, often described as a combination of vanilla and coconut. This elegant cake is ideal for celebrating special occasions or enjoying it as a delightful treat at any time of the day.
What is Pandan?
Pandan is a tropical plant from Southeast Asia. The leaves of the pandan plant are dried and used to make pandan extract, giving a distinctive flavor to many Asian desserts.
It is often used in cooking to add fragrance to dishes, especially sweets. It can be boiled directly with sugar to make syrup that is added to cakes, puddings, and other desserts. In this pandan swiss roll recipe, pandan juice is used by blending pandan with water.
CHINESE VERSION: 香兰瑞士卷蛋糕
In this recipe, we’ll show you how to make your own homemade Pandan Swiss Roll Cake—a dessert with a striking green hue and a taste that is both exotic and familiar. The pandan-flavored sponge cake is rolled around a creamy filling to produce a beautiful spiral that’s both tasty and pleasing to the eye. So let’s take the taste of Southeast Asia into your kitchen with this recipe for Pandan Swiss Roll Cake.
Pandan Swiss Roll Cake | MyKitchen101en
Yield: 10 slices
Ingredients:
For meringue:
- 3 egg whites (grade A/size L, room temp.)
- 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- 60 g fine sugar
For batter:
- 3 egg yolks (grade A/size L, room temp.)
- 20 g fine sugar
- 1/8 tsp fine salt
- 45 g corn oil
- 40 ml pandan juice*
- 65 g cake flour (low protein flour)
- 1/2 tbsp milk powder
Other:
- 80 g non-dairy topping cream (sweetened)
Instructions:
1 Add a tray of water to the oven (about 2 cups, to yield a moister cake), and preheat oven to 200°C/395°F.
2 *Pandan juice: Blend together 40 ml of water and 13 g of pandan leaves until fine, extract 40 ml of pandan juice.
3 In a clean mixing bowl, whisk egg whites over low speed until large bubbles are formed. Add in cream of tartar, and whisk until small bubbles are formed. Add in sugar gradually, whisk until stiff peak. At stiff peak, the peaks will point straight up and hold.
(Reminder: Egg whites and equipment used to beat egg whites must be grease-free, water-free, and egg yolk-free. Always clean egg shells and equipment with dishwasher detergent, then dry with a clean cloth. Use a clean small bowl to separate egg yolk and egg white, if the egg yolk cracks, don’t use that egg white. When the meringue begins to look glossy, stop and check after beating for every 10 seconds, stop when it has reached the stiff peaks, do not over whip.)
4 Combine egg yolks, sugar and salt, whisk over low speed until thick, add in corn oil, whisk until combined, add in pandan juice, mix well.
5 Sieve together cake flour and milk powder, sieve again into the wet ingredients, mix until combined.
6 Add meringue into batter in 3 batches, mix gently using balloon whisk.
7 Fold gently with spatula until well mixed, tap mixing bowl on countertop for a few times (to burst large bubbles).
8 Pour batter into 10″ x 14″ (25 cm x 36 cm) rectangle baking pan lined with parchment paper. Spread the batter evenly with spatula, then drop the baking pan onto countertop for a few times (to burst large bubbles).
9 Bake at 190°C/375°F for 18-20 minutes, until the cake is golden brown. (Reminder: The cake must be baked until the top is golden brown so that the surface won’t be sticky when cooled. The heat for different oven is different, the suggested time is only for reference, adjust the baking time base on your oven if necessary.)
10 Drop the baking pan from 1 foot high onto countertop after removing from oven (to minimize shrinkage).
