The Passover Potluck is a unique annual online event. I’ve invited my friends, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to share recipes that are kosher for Passover. My goals are simple– to foster mutual understanding between different cultures, to introduce you to my foodie friends, and to share yummy recipes and cooking ideas for Passover! To learn more about the Passover holiday, click here. To learn about what makes a recipe kosher for Passover, click here. To check out the other Passover Potluck recipes, click here.
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I met Leah Schapira online last year when she asked me to contribute a recipe to her website, CookKosher.com. Leah is a cookbook author, food columnist and recipe developer who enjoys taking simple, ordinary ingredients and transforming them into flavorful meals. I thought it would be fun to end our Passover Potluck event with a sweet treat, and Leah generously shared one of her favorites– a beautiful and creative Cheese Roulade with Caramel Chocolate Glaze. In addition to being kosher for Passover, it’s also gluten free when certified GF ingredients are used. Enjoy! ~ Tori
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Leah says:
Hi, my name is Leah Schapira and I run the kosher recipe sharing website CookKosher.com. Tori was one of our guest bloggers this past August and our readers enjoyed her Spicy Panko Chickpea Patties.
I’m Jewish, and my family is very stringent in regards to Passover food items. We don’t use many processed ingredients (honestly, KFP cereal has much to be desired) and we don’t buy any ready-made food. To feed a large family for eight days, we cook a lot of food and bake a lot of cakes, all from scratch (and I mean everything from scratch…from homemade mayo to freshly squeezed juice). One of the hardest things about Passover is the baking. If you use matzah meal (ground matzah), it’s easy to replace your all-year round flour with matzah meal. But if you don’t use matzah meal (moi), then your baking is limited to potato starch to bind your ingredients. Let me tell you something. Too much potato starch in a baked item isn’t very tasty.
In baking, I’ve found the best way to make good Passover baked goods, is 1. Add cocoa or chocolate (everything with chocolate is good!) 2. Use as little potato starch as possible.
We make this dairy cake as an alternative to all the meat meals we eat during the holiday. A slice of this cake with coffee is the ultimate breakfast. All I need is a good food magazine and I’m transported to a different place.
This recipe is from my cookbook Fresh & Easy Kosher Cooking. While I make this all year round, on Passover it always tastes better!
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Cheese Roulade with Caramel Chocolate Glaze
Ingredients
Cake Ingredients
- 6 large eggs
- 6 tbsp sugar
- 5 tbsp potato starch, plus more for sprinkling
- 1 tbsp cocoa, sifted
- 2 tbsp oil
Filling Ingredients
- 6 oz whipped cream cheese
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 1/2 oz milk chocolate
Topping Ingredients
- 3 1/2 oz white chocolate
- 1 tsp instant coffee granules
- 1-2 tsp water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.In the bowl of a mixer, beat egg whites, gradually adding sugar, until peaks form. Fold in the yolks, flour, cocoa, and oil. Pour batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 20 minutes.
- While cake is baking, spread out a clean kitchen towel onto the counter and sprinkle with potato starch.
- When the cake is finished baking, invert hot cake onto the prepared towel.
- Carefully peel off the baking paper.
- Starting from one edge, roll up the cake and the towel together, jellyroll style. Set aside and let cool.
- To prepare the filling, mix the whipped cream cheese and sugar until well combined. Set aside. Over a double boiler, melt the bar of milk chocolate. Unroll the cake and spread with a layer of melted chocolate. Smear cream cheese mixture over the melted chocolate. Roll up the cake.
- In a double boiler, melt white chocolate with coffee granules dissolved in water. Pour over cake.Freeze. To serve, defrost cake slightly, garnish with drizzled melted chocolate or hazelnuts, and slice.
Nutrition
This is a fabulous looking recipe as are so many of your desserts for Peasach.
Its too late for Pesach 2020 but would you consider recipes that substitute almond flour or coconut flour for potatoes starch or matzah meal.
They are readily available for Pesach, are much lower in carbohydrates and eliminate any issues with gabruchs.
Speaking with friends…..instead of mixing the coffee with water, I will mix the coffee with warm cream. This way the chocolate won’t seize.
I made this recipe this afternoon. I followed it to the letter. However, that topping is impossible to make as you are adding water to melting chocolate. It seizes every time. I ended up making a duplicate of the cream cheese filling and adding the dissolved coffee into that. I iced with the new filling and it looks great and is delicious.
What is the qty of flour and recipie of potatoe starch.
what size cookie sheet is ideal to use?
I used a 15x10x1. Worked great.
This looks great, however the picture with the rolled cake topped with the coffee and melted white chocolate looks very different than the finished picture. The name of the dish says its a roulade with a caramel glaze, but that is not in the instructions. Am I missing something? Thanks!
Hi SPM, I have not personally made this recipe (it was part of our Passover Potluck event), but I think the white chocolate and coffee granules are meant to produce a caramel flavor in the glaze. The reason the cake looks different in the step-by-step, I think, is a question of lighting and where the cake is sliced… the final picture is sliced from the middle, while the step-by-step is not sliced at all. Color variations are likely due to different lighting situations. Hope that helps!
What size baking sheet?
Thanks
i always wondered how they make this at the bakery. It looks great. i will try to make this.
It is always good to learn new things, and during this passover recipes, I learned all these uses for potato starch. It is a very nice combination and presentation.
This is a gorgeous roulade. I am so impressed with you using potato starch in it. It would not have occurred to me. Yet I love the stuff. The glaze is incredible.
this sounds so wonderful!!! my grandsons would love this as they are on gluten free meals. i will definately make this for them. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
What a brilliant idea to use potato starch! What a stunning dessert! Happy Passover and so nice to meet you!
This looks delectable! Caramel, chocolate, cream cheese — what’s not to love? I’m curious how much flour should be used, though.
Daniel, if you are making this outside of Passover, Leah suggests substituting the potato starch for an equal amount of flour (5 tbsp plus more for sprinkling).
Thanks Tori. I use equal amounts of flour when I make it during the year. Best part is, it freezes great, so you can make it once and enjoy a slice every day until you finish it – that’s if it lasts so long 🙂
Now this is plain and simply lovely! What an awesome idea!
That looks beautiful, I want some! thank you so much for this one <3