Dromtarta - Swedish Chocolate Dream Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa (preferably dutch type)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 eggs
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• confectioners' sugar
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 cup cocoa (preferably dutch type)
• 3 cups confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons rum or 3 tablespoons cognac

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 cake:.
• 3 sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• 4 combine eggs, water and vanilla and beat until thick and lemon-colored. add granulated sugar gradually (1 tbsp at a time) and beat thoroughly after each addition.
• 5 slowly sift flour mixture into egg mixture and fold in carefully, but thoroughly.
• 6 grease a 15x10 in jelly-roll pan and line w/waxed paper. spread batter evenly in pan and bake 30 minutes or till cake tests done. touch cake lightly w/fingertip. if the dough springs back quickly, the cake is done.
• 7 sprinkle a kitchen towel heavily with confectioner's sugar . turn cake onto kitchen towel and peel off waxed paper. trim off any crisp edges. roll warm cake lengthwise in towel into a roll. cool on rack, seam side down.
• 8 filling - cream butter with egg yolk and cocoa. beat in sugar gradually, alternating w/rum. keep at room temp for spreading.
• 9 cake assembly - unroll cake and spread with filling. reroll and refrigerate till serving time.