Strawberry Shortcake Roll

Name: Strawberry Shortcake Roll
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 1 1/2 pounds, fresh strawberries, hulled and halved; 1/2 cup (3½ ounces), granulated sugar; 1 tablespoon, water; 1 tablespoon, lemon juice; 1 1/2 teaspoons, unflavored gelatin; 1 , recipe 18 by 13-inch jellyroll cake; , Confectioners' sugar; 1 cup, heavy cream, chilled; 4 ounces, mascarpone cheese; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2011

Desserts or Baked Goods

Fruit

Fruit Desserts

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We don’t normally try to fix what isn’t broken, but when it comes to strawberry shortcake, we thought it couldn’t hurt to tinker.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME1¼ hours, plus 8 hours chilling and 1 hour cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Cooking the strawberries with granulated sugar produced a concentrated jam for our Strawberry Shortcake Roll packed with strawberry flavor. We added mascarpone and lemon juice to our whipped cream to give it a little extra tang. When it cam...

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