Pumpkin & Walnut Swiss Roll

Pumpkin & Walnut Swiss Roll is a delicious and fresh take on the good old Swiss rolls, filled up with the goodness of cream cheese and warm spices of the season.

‍Recipe Card

Ingredients	Quantity
Eggs	3
Caster sugar	200 g
Pumpkin puree	165 g
Lemon juice	1 tsp
Plain flour	85 g
Baking Soda	1 tsp
Salt	½ tsp
Ground cinnamon	2 tsp
Ground nutmeg	½ tsp
Walnut, chopped	120 g
For Filling
Cream cheese	225 g
Unsalted butter	10 g
Icing sugar	75 g
Vanilla extract	1tsp

‍Method of Preparation

For the Filling

In a medium bowl, cream together cream cheese, butter and icing sugar. Stir in vanilla extract.

For the Sponge

Preheat oven to 180 C.
In a bowl, beat egg yolk until fluffy with half of the sugar. And at the same time beat the egg white with the rest of the sugar until fluffy. Combine the egg yolk into the egg white. Stir in pumpkin puree and lemon juice.
In silpat mat sieve flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and add the chopped walnut.
Fold dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture.
Spread in prepared silpat mat in a baking tray
Bake in preheated oven 12 minutes.
Carefully unroll cooled cake and remove tea towel
Sprinkle a silpat mat with icing sugar. Turn cake out the silpat mat while still hot.
Spread cake with filling and re-roll. Chill until ready to serve

‍Chef Sally Handoko

‍Sally Handoko is a popular name in the Dubai culinary industry. She started her career in the Four Seasons in Indonesia and edged into the pastry kitchen. From a very young age itself, Sally was fond of baking cakes and it was only natural for her to choose baking overcooking. Her passion for learning more and her love for world-class patisserie led her ways to Dubai after working in Indonesia for a few years.

In Dubai, Sally worked with JW Marriot, Fairmont, and The Conrad before her current position with ICCA Dubai as a Pastry Chef Instructor. She left the kitchen at the peak of her career as an Executive Pastry Chef to pursue her long term interest in teaching. Despite her successful position in the kitchen hierarchy, Sally always wanted to develop her career as a culinary instructor so that she could share knowledge and inspire the next round of professionals in the field.

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