Apple Cranberry Filled Walnut Cake Roll

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 2 large apples, peeled, cored and quartered
• 1 cup whole berry cranberry sauce
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 3 tablespoons apple juice
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2/3 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup finely ground walnuts
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine

Recipe

• 1 preheat your oven to 375* f. grease a jellyroll pan, line it with waxed paper, and grease the paper.
• 2 combine apples, cranberry sauce, sugar, water, apple juice, lemon juice, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a non-reactive heavy-bottomed saucepan. cook over medium heat, stirring until mixture thickens, about 6 minutes. set aside to cool.
• 3 for cake:.
• 4 sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt on a piece of waxed paper, set aside. beat the eggs in medium bowl for 2 minutes. gradually beat in sugar until thick and light in color, about 5 minutes. stir in water and vanilla. fold in flour mixture and ground walnuts.
• 5 pour into the prepared pan spreading evenly. bake for 12 minutes.
• 6 loosen the cake around the edges with a knife. invert the pan onto a clean towel dusted with powdered sugar. remove from the pan. carefully peel away the waxed paper. starting at short end, roll cake and towel together. cool on a wire rack about 30 minutes.
• 7 when cake is cool, unroll carefully. spread roll evenly with prepared fruit filling, leaving a 2" border along the short side, which will be the outside seam. reroll the cake from short end, using towel as an aid. place roll, seam side down, on serving platter.
• 8 whip together frosting ingredients. place into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. pipe whipped frosting around edges and on top of cake roll.