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Easter Creme Egg Chocolate Swiss Roll

Published: Mar 30, 2020 by Terri Gilson · Modified: Mar 15, 2022 · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links · 8 Comments

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I love the look of a rolled cake. Not only is it fun and whimsical, you're guaranteed whipped cream and chocolate with every bite. That's my kind of cake! But even better.... this Easter Creme Egg Swiss Roll marries the Chocolate Swiss Roll with Easter Creme Eggs; you just can't go wrong with that union!

Easter Creme Egg Swiss Roll Cake on a white plate with cake in background

I just adore that classic and tasty combination of the light sponge cake and whipped cream filling. Who doesn't?

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  • 🥘Ingredients
  • 🔪Instructions
  • 🎥 Videos
  • 🍽Equipment
  • 💭 Difference between Swiss Roll, Jelly Roll and Roulade
  • 👪 Serving size
  • 🌡️Storage
  • 🍰More Creme Egg Dessert Recipes!
  • ⭐ REVIEWS
  • 📋 Easter Creme Egg Chocolate Swiss Roll Recipe

In a May 2019 post Martha Stewart proclaims that rolled cakes are ready for a revival- I couldn't agree more! She says, "when sliced, the spiral sweets look graphic and modern, yet still retaining a nostalgic charm." You can read more about the revival of rolled cakes HERE.  I have always loved rolled cakes and have made several holiday yule logs over the years.

🥘Ingredients

This is a essentially a chocolate Swiss Roll with a whipped cream Easter Creme Egg middle. For this Easter Swiss Roll, you'll need:

  • butter (unsalted)
  • eggs
  • all-purpose flour
  • white granulated sugar
  • unsweetened cocoa
  • salt
  • whipping cream (35%+)
  • vanilla
  • Cadbury creme mini eggs
  • chocolate frosting

🔪Instructions

If you've never made a Swiss Roll cake, don't be intimidated-it's really quite straightforward. In fact, it's so straightforward that my son's Grade 9 cooking class made this Chocolate Swiss Roll as a lesson. This is a really fun cake to make with your kids but my son actually made it by himself for Christmas dessert this year! That's how simple it is- you just have to follow my step-by-step instructions.

How to make a Swiss Roll

Instructions

Cake

  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Place parchment paper on a 17X12 sheet pan (jelly roll pan) and grease with butter. If you don't have a jelly roll pan, you can use a regular baking sheet (my son did this when he made it at Christmas and it turned out just fine)
  2. Bring and inch of water to simmer in a medium saucepan. Whisk eggs and sugar in a heatproof bowl, then place on the simmering water. Make sure the water doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl at any time.
  3. Using a hand mixer, continuously beat the egg mixture until the eggs are thick, pale yellow and warm to the touch (120 degrees F) It should feel like hot tap water.
buttered parchment
Step 1
whisk eggs
Step 2
continue beating
Step 3
  1. Remove the egg bowl from the heat and continue beating on a high speed until the mixture is thick and airy, and has reached the ribbon stage. This means that when you drag and drizzle a spoonful of liquid, it shouldn't settle back into the liquid for a good 5-10 seconds. Mix in the melted butter.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together the cocoa powder, flour and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and gently fold it into the eggs with a rubber spatula
  3. Spread the batter onto the buttered parchment, leaving approximately an inch from the edges of the parchment. Bake the cake for 8 minutes until springy to the touch.
ribbon stage
Step 4
chocolate swiss roll cake mixture in a stainless steel bowl with spatula
Step 5
batter on parchment paper
Step 6
  1. Sprinkle cocoa on a large piece of parchment paper while cake is baking.
  2. As soon as you take the cake out of the oven, flip it onto the cocoa covered parchment paper.
  3. Remove the parchment paper that the cake was baked on by gently peeling it off. Then trim the parchment around it, leaving a 1 ½ - 2 inch border.

cocoa sprinkled on parchment
Step 7
cake flipped onto parchment
Step 8
parchment paper peeled off
Step 9
  1. IMMEDIATELY gently roll the cake up in the parchment paper into a log while it's warm.
  2. Keep rolling up.
  3. Leave it in a rolled up state until cool (this is like muscle memory for cakes)
cake being rolled up
Step 10
cake being rolled up
Step 11
cake in rolled up state
Step 12
  1. While cake is cooling, whip the whipping cream in a large bowl until soft peaks form, then add vanilla and sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
  2. Crush the Easter Creme Eggs. TERRI'S TIP: I do this by placing them on a cutting board and placing a large plastic ziplock bag over them. Then I hit each egg a couple of times gently with a hammer or mallet to crush them, with the plastic between the tool and the eggs. * This is the best and cleanest way I have come up with to crush them. If you enlist your kids to help you unwrap and crush them, it goes much faster and it's fun for them! Mix the crushed Easter creme eggs into the whipped cream.
  3. Unroll the cake, spread the filling all over, leaving a 1 inch border around all the edges.
whipping cream whipped to stiff peaks
Step 13
Easter creme eggs mixed into whipped cream
Step 14
whipped cream mixture spread on cake
Step 15
  1. Then gently roll the cake back up, leaving the parchment paper behind. * If it cracks a little, don't worry, as it will be covered in frosting. Trim about an inch off each end to make it look neater.
  2. Frost the cake with chocolate frosting, then drag the dull side of a butter knife across it all over to look like wood texture. Pipe grass around the cake with green frosting (see video in NOTES on how to pipe grass) * If you have never piped grass before, don't worry - it's one of the easiest types of piping to do (easier than most borders!)
  3. Add eggs around the cake and serve with additional chocolate eggs on each slice and a little grass piped on.
cake being rolled back up
Step 16
grass piped around cake
Step 17
Easter Creme Egg Swiss Roll Cake on a white plate with cake in background
Step 18

🎥 Videos

  •  How to pipe frosting grass
  •  How to pipe grass WITHOUT a grass tip (decorating hack)

🍽Equipment

For this creme egg cake you will need a 17X12 pan (jelly roll pan) (affiliate link) for this recipe. It's wider than a typical baking sheet and a tip for the grass frosting (Wilton tip #233), (affiliate link) a coupler and a pastry bag. (affiliate links).

💭 Difference between Swiss Roll, Jelly Roll and Roulade

If you're wondering what the difference is between a jelly roll, Swiss roll and a Roulade well, it's not much. They are all sponge or chiffon cakes baked on a sheet pan (usually a jelly roll pan) and rolled with a filling inside. The big difference is the name; the French call it a "Roulade" while the Americans call it a "Jelly Roll" and the English call it a "Swiss roll." A You can read more about the differences between Swiss Rolls, Jelly Rolls and Roulades HERE.  Despite the name "Swiss roll," the cake doesn't seem to have anything to do with Switzerland or the word 'swiss', unlike Swiss Steak,  which is named so because of its preparation method. Swiss Rolls appear to have originated elsewhere in Central Europe and were invented in the nineteenth century.

swiss roll cake with piece cut off (swirl showing)

👪 Serving size

This Chocolate Swiss Roll Cake serves 8 but it was perfect for our family of 4 - everyone got a leftover second slice the next day! Although we were left wanting even more. However, if you want to make more than one cake, you can double or triple the recipe by clicking on the blue serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.

Easter Creme Egg Swiss Roll Cake on a white plate with cake in background

🌡️Storage

Store leftovers in an airtight sealed container in the fridge for up to 4 days. This cake does not freeze well, due to the whipped cream filling (the whipped cream will get watery when defrosted).

🍰More Creme Egg Dessert Recipes!

It just isn't Easter without Creme Eggs and that's why I added them to this cake's filling. I used the mini Easter Creme Eggs, as they are easier to crush and roll up with the whipped cream. And it was perfect! I love Creme Eggs so much that I also created more desserts, including this Easter Creme Egg Icebox Cake (shown) and this Easter Creme Egg Microwave Fudge.  They are both really fun and delicious Easter desserts or you can use leftover chocolate creme eggs to make them after Easter!

Mini Easter Creme eggs in front of cut out section of cake

It's not easy to find an Easter cake with a full on Easter theme that looks and tastes as good as this! So if you're looking for Easter baking ideas, Swiss Rolls look great, are inexpensive to make and although the recipes are involved, if you follow the steps they are quite simple to make. If my 14 year old can master this recipe, so can you! 

Happy Easter cake baking!

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Slice of Easter Swiss Roll Cake on a white plate (with lattice trim) with fork on the side and whole cake in background
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📋 Easter Creme Egg Chocolate Swiss Roll Recipe

This Easter Creme Egg Swiss Roll has a delicious whipped creamy Cadbury Easter Creme egg filling wrapped up in a light and airy sponge cake, then covered in chocolate frosting and adorned with Easter creme eggs and mini eggs. It's a fun and whimsical cake to make and the perfect Easter cake centerpiece!
5 from 3 votes
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Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American, British, Canadian
Keyword: chocolate, Easter, Easter Creme eggs, swiss roll
Servings: 8 people
Calories: 517kcal
Author: Terri Gilson
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Decorating and assembly: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Ingredients

Swiss Roll Cake

  • 1 tablespoon butter for greasing parchment
  • 4 large eggs
  • ½ cup white granulated sugar
  • 4 tablespoon butter melted
  • ½ cup all purpose flour
  • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa plus more for sprinkling
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Filling

  • 1 cup whipping cream (35% +)
  • 2 tablespoon white granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 25 Cadbury Easter creme mini eggs *about a 300 g bag (save remainders for decorations)

Frosting

  • 2 cups chocolate frosting either homemade or store bought (See NOTES for recipe) * You can use any chocolate frosting but I used my No Butter Chocolate Frosting

Decorations

  • additional mini Easter Creme eggs (some wrapped and some unwrapped
  • mini colored eggs
  • 1 cup green frosting (for grass) * you can use store bought or color white frosting. * I use Wilton leaf green icing color mixed in with white icing - I find it gives it a nice vibrant green
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Instructions

Cake

  • Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Place parchment paper on a 17X12 sheet pan (jelly roll pan) and grease with butter. If you don't have a jelly roll pan, you can use a regular baking sheet (my son did this when he made it at Christmas and it turned out just fine)
    buttered parchment
  • Bring and inch of water to simmer in a medium saucepan. Whisk eggs and sugar in a heatproof bowl, then place on the simmering water. Make sure the water doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl at any time.
    whisk eggs
  • Using a hand mixer, continuously beat the egg mixture until the eggs are thick, pale yellow and warm to the touch (120 degrees F) It should feel like hot tap water.
    continue beating
  • Remove the egg bowl from the heat and continue beating on a high speed until the mixture is thick and airy, and has reached the ribbon stage. This means that when you drag and drizzle a spoonful of liquid, it shouldn't settle back into the liquid for a good 5-10 seconds. Mix in the melted butter.
    ribbon stage
  • In a small bowl, whisk together the cocoa powder, flour and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and gently fold it into the eggs with a rubber spatula
    chocolate swiss roll cake mixture in a stainless steel bowl with spatula
  • Spread the batter onto the buttered parchment, leaving approximately an inch from the edges of the parchment. Bake the cake for 8 minutes until springy to the touch.
    batter on parchment paper
  • Sprinkle cocoa on a large piece of parchment paper while cake is baking.
    cocoa sprinkled on parchment
  • As soon as you take the cake out of the oven, flip it onto the cocoa covered parchment paper.
    cake flipped onto parchment
  • Remove the parchment paper that the cake was baked on by gently peeling it off. Then trim the parchment around it, leaving a 1 ½ - 2 inch border.
    parchment paper peeled off
  • IMMEDIATELY gently roll the cake up in the parchment paper into a log while it's warm.
    cake being rolled up
  • Keep rolling, as shown.
    cake being rolled up
  • Leave it in a rolled up state until cool (this is like muscle memory for cakes)
    cake in rolled up state

Filling

  • While cake is cooling, whip the whipping cream in a large bowl until soft peaks form, then add vanilla and sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
    whipping cream whipped to stiff peaks
  • Crush the Easter Creme Eggs. TERRI'S TIP: I do this by placing them on a cutting board and placing a large plastic ziplock bag over them. Then I hit each egg a couple of times gently with a hammer or mallet to crush them, with the plastic between the tool and the eggs. * This is the best and cleanest way I have come up with to crush them. If you enlist your kids to help you unwrap and crush them, it goes much faster and it's fun for them!
  • Mix the crushed Easter creme eggs into the whipped cream.
    Easter creme eggs mixed into whipped cream

Assembly

  • Unroll the cake, spread the filling all over, leaving a 1 inch border around all the edges.
    whipped cream mixture spread on cake
  • Then gently roll the cake back up, leaving the parchment paper behind. * If it cracks a little, don't worry, as it will be covered in frosting. Trim about an inch off each end to make it look neater.
    cake being rolled back up

Decorations

  • Frost the cake with chocolate frosting, then drag the dull side of a butter knife across it all over to look like wood texture. Pipe grass around the cake with green frosting (see video in NOTES on how to pipe grass) * If you have never piped grass before, don't worry - it's one of the easiest types of piping to do (easier than most borders!)
    grass piped around cake
  • Add eggs around the cake and serve with additional chocolate eggs on each slice and a little grass piped on.
    Easter Creme Egg Swiss Roll Cake on a white plate with cake in background

Notes

🎥 Videos
How to pipe frosting grass
How to pipe grass WITHOUT a grass tip (decorating hack)
🎂Frosting Recipe:
Chocolate Frosting (without butter)
*NOTE: Be aware that because the filling in this cake also has mini creme eggs in it, it's not going to roll up as "clean looking" as other Swiss roll recipes
Nutrition Facts
📋 Easter Creme Egg Chocolate Swiss Roll Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 slice)
Calories 517 Calories from Fat 279
% Daily Value*
Fat 31g48%
Saturated Fat 15g94%
Cholesterol 141mg47%
Sodium 282mg12%
Potassium 213mg6%
Carbohydrates 60g20%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 48g53%
Protein 5g10%
Vitamin A 775IU16%
Vitamin C 1mg1%
Calcium 41mg4%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 517kcal (26%) | Carbohydrates: 60g (20%) | Protein: 5g (10%) | Fat: 31g (48%) | Saturated Fat: 15g (94%) | Cholesterol: 141mg (47%) | Sodium: 282mg (12%) | Potassium: 213mg (6%) | Fiber: 2g (8%) | Sugar: 48g (53%) | Vitamin A: 775IU (16%) | Vitamin C: 1mg (1%) | Calcium: 41mg (4%) | Iron: 2mg (11%)
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Comments

  1. Bernice Hill

    April 01, 2020 at 12:04 pm

    Your step by step photos are very helpful! I've never made a swiss roll but I sure love to eat them! I have to try making one soon.

    Reply
    • Terri Gilson

      April 02, 2020 at 6:42 am

      That's great to hear, Bernice! I know I appreciate step by steps photos myself. Yes, agreed- they're so good to eat! You should try it - it's super fun to make!

      Reply
  2. Colleen

    April 01, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    I love Easter Creme Eggs and this is a perfect way to incorporate them into an Easter dessert. Your "grass" is a cute finishing touch, too!

    Reply
    • Terri Gilson

      April 02, 2020 at 6:42 am

      Thanks, Colleen! I started this whole food thing as a cake decorator so it's hard for me to control myself haha!

      Reply
  3. Ayngelina

    April 02, 2020 at 6:38 am

    I don't usually make desserts but this seems like a fun project right now while we're all struck at home.

    Reply
    • Terri Gilson

      April 02, 2020 at 6:41 am

      Hi Ayngelina- it really is a fun project - my son and I made it together! But they'll love the eating part best 🙂

      Reply

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