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Carrot Cake Roll
Soft spiced carrot sponge rolled around a creamy cream cheese filling.
Serves
8–10 slices
Time
45 min
A soft, lightly spiced carrot cake rolled with a creamy cream cheese filling and finished with powdered sugar. Beautiful, delicious, and easier than it looks.
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a jelly roll pan or baking sheet with parchment; lightly spray with oil (or sprinkle with powdered sugar) to prevent sticking.
- 2
Beat eggs and sugar until light, pale, and fluffy.
- 3
Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cloves. Add to the egg mixture and combine.
- 4
Mix in the carrot puree until smooth.
- 5
Spread batter evenly in the pan. Bake 10–12 min, until set and lightly golden.
- 6
Rest 2–3 min. While warm, roll up the cake with the parchment (or a clean kitchen towel). Toti rolls from the short side for a thicker roll. Cool completely.
- 7
Beat cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla until smooth.
- 8
Unroll, spread the filling evenly, and gently re-roll.
- 9
Dust with powdered sugar. Slice and serve.
Toti’s Tips
- ✓Grating the carrots and then blending them into a puree keeps big fibrous shreds out of the batter, so the thin sponge stays soft and rolls without lumps poking through.
- ✓Roll the cake up while it's still warm because warm cake is more flexible; once it cools flat, the structure sets and it will crack the moment you try to roll it.
- ✓Rolling with the parchment or towel still around it trains the sponge into a curl, so when you unroll it later to fill it, it wants to curl back the same way instead of fighting you.
- ✓Let the rolled cake cool completely before filling it — warm cake will melt the cream cheese filling and make it slide out instead of staying layered.
- ✓Rolling from the short side gives you a shorter but thicker roll, which holds its shape better when sliced than a long, thin one.
- ✓Beat the eggs and sugar until really pale and fluffy first, since that whipped air is most of what makes this sponge light instead of dense.
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