Gingerbread Cake Roll with Maple Cream Filling

A moist gingerbread cake rolled around sweet maple cream filling– a perfect Christmas treat!

Over a year ago I made gingerbread cookies with a maple cream filling for Halloween.  I’ve had so many requests for those cookies that I decided to use those flavors again in a cake form.  If you’re turning your nose up at the ginger/ maple flavor combination you simply MUST try one of these two recipes.  The flavors together are wonderful!  Cake rolls are really very easy to make. If you’ve never made one click here to get some photos of my technique with a pumpkin cake roll.

INGREDIENTS:

Roll:

• 1 1/4c. flour
• 1 1/4 t. baking soda
• 1 T. ground ginger
• 1 T. ground cinnamon
• 1 t. ground cloves
• 1 egg
• 1/2 c. warm water
• 1/3 c. sugar
• 1/3 c. molasses

Filling:

• 2 c. powdered sugar
• 1/3 c. butter (melted)
• 1 t. maple flavoring
• 1/2c. white chocolate chips (melted)
• 1-2 T. water to get spreadable consistency.

DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line a 10×15 inch jellyroll pan with waxed paper and spray lightly with non-stick spray.
•  Blend together flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and cloves.
• Beat together egg and warm water in a large bowl, then whisk in white sugar, and molasses.
• Fold in the blended dry ingredients until smooth, then pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 15 minutes (until the cake springs back to the touch).
• Remove from oven and immediately -with wax paper on- roll gingerbread cake up from short end of pan to short end of pan (you will probably burn your fingers a little- I usually do!) Roll this up in a clean towel to hold it tightly together.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• While roll is chilling, make filling:
• Add powdered sugar, melted butter, melted chips and maple flavoring together and blend.
• Add a little bit of water to make filling into a spreadable consistency.
• After one hour, remove roll and unroll it carefully.
• Spread filling over top of opened roll and then re-roll this up *removing the wax paper as you roll*
• Place this back in the refrigerator for about 4-6 hours minimum.
• Drizzle with a little powdered sugar glaze or sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into slices to serve.

My thoughts:  YUM!!!  I can’t wait to make this again- its really fun to put together and to serve.  It’s such a unique and memorable dessert.  If you want something that will stand out on the dessert table this Christmas, this is it!  ENJOY!!!  ~r

Want to try this in cookie form?  I made these with Halloween Linzer cookie cutters, but they would be really fun with Christmas ones!  Click on the photo and you’ll be taken to the recipe….enjoy!