Tips and tricks on the strawberry swiss roll with the thermomix

18 tips and tricks about the thermomix recipe

• Before you start, make sure all the ingredients used are at room temperature, especially the eggs. This will make the mixing process easier and help achieve a light and airy sponge cake.
• When sifting the flour and baking powder, do it directly into the Thermomix bowl to avoid lumps and achieve a more homogeneous texture in your sponge cake. Be careful not to overmix the batter after adding the flour.
  
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• Mix just enough to incorporate the ingredients. Overmixing can make the sponge cake dense.
• Use a good quality and well-buttered sponge cake mold to prevent the sponge cake from sticking when unmolding. You can also use parchment paper to facilitate unmolding.
• Preheat your oven to the temperature indicated in the recipe. A properly preheated oven will ensure even baking of the sponge cake.
• When you take the sponge cake out of the oven, let it cool for a few minutes before unmolding it onto a clean cloth lightly dusted with powdered sugar. This will make rolling easier without the sponge cake breaking.
• For a flavorful strawberry filling, use fresh and ripe strawberries. You can also add a little lemon juice to enhance the flavor.
• When spreading the strawberry filling on the sponge cake, make sure to do it evenly, leaving a small margin on the edges to prevent the filling from overflowing when rolling.
• For a tighter roll, you can gently tighten the cloth used to roll the sponge cake. This will help maintain the shape of the cake.
• Before serving, you can decorate your rolled strawberry sponge cake with fresh strawberry slices, mint leaves, or lightly dust with powdered sugar for an elegant presentation.
• You can replace the strawberry jam with any other fruit jam, such as apricot jam.
• This Thermomix recipe does not require a springform pan.
• If you don't have orange blossom water, use vanilla sugar.
• To make this Thermomix roll even more indulgent, replace the strawberry with chocolate, speculoos cream, mascarpone, chestnut cream, hazelnut spread, and serve with whipped cream or decorate with chocolate chips.
• This Thermomix sponge cake is ideal for Christmas pastry logs, strawberry cakes, and Bavarian creams.
• You can make this Thermomix sponge cake with a ganache like dark chocolate ganache, white chocolate ganache.
• In the sponge cake category, discover our recipes for gourmet Christmas pastry logs such as tiramisu-style Christmas log and strawberry tagada Christmas log.
• Check out our Thermomix strawberry cake recipe.