18 of the Best Swiss Roll Recipes

Light sponge cake filled with cream, jam, or buttercream, then rolled and sliced. It's hard to beat a Swiss roll - it's quite simply a fantastic after-dinner treat. And that's why I've trawled the web for 18 of the best Swiss roll recipes.

Collage of 3 Swiss rolls. Caption reads: 20 Swiss roll recipes from chocolate roulade to strawberry roll

Some chocolatey, some fruity, some vegan, some gluten free, some classic, some surprising, some plain, some served with cream, berries and custard.

Let's dig in.

Lemon meringue Swiss roll with summer berries

This lemon meringue Swiss roll just screams summer. Soft sponge, sweet chunks of meringue, juicy summer fruit and fresh, whipped cream make this an irresistible dessert.

Get the recipe from Little Sugar Snaps

Summer berry meringue roulade

The sponge itself is meringue-style in this beautiful summer berry roulade as it's made with four large egg whites. It also happens to be gluten free!

Get the recipe from Christinas Cucina

Gluten-free Swiss roll

This giant gluten-free Swiss roll brings all the chocolatey goodness alongside a white, fluffy marshmallow creme filling. Utterly decadent and seriously beautiful.

Get the recipe from Gluten Free on a Shoestring

Spiced pumpkin roll

A pumpkin roll with two slices cut off. Cinemon sticks decorate the side of the wooden chopping board next to the roll.

This spiced pumpkin Roll is the perfect treat for autumn. The moist sponge is made with pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice and filled with sweet cream cheese. A perfect treat as the weather turns cool.

Get the recipe from Peters Food Adventures

Keto chocolate Swiss roll

This roulade may look decadent but it's actually low carb! It's not only sugar-free but also grain-free and gluten-free. Nevertheless, it's as scrumptiously soft, fluffy and creamy as it looks.

Get the recipe from Low Carb No Carb

Gingerbread chocolate log

A slice of gingerbread chcolate log on a white plate. At the side is a minitiure gingerbread man and a decorative fork. The plate sits on a white wooden background with a table cloth at the side. At the top of the image there's a cute cookie cutter.

Who could resist this moist, light chocolate roll cake, filled with a gingerbread spiced creamy filling? It's a deliciously festive twist on the classic chocolate Swiss roll.

Get the recipe from Crumbs and Corkscrews

Creme Egg chocolate Swiss roll

A slice of the easter egg chocolate roll sits on a white decorative plate covered in candy eggs and cadbury's cream eggs. In the background you can see the entire roll which sits on a white rectangular plate with a blue table cloth.

This is a Swiss roll with true Easter charm: a decadent creme egg filling wrapped up in a light and airy chocolate 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 centrepiece.

Get the recipe from Food Meanderings

Easy strawberry cake roll

Strawberry Swiss roll decorated with chopped strawberries on a decorative white plate.

This Easy Strawberry Cake Roll looks fancy but it’s so simple to make! You'll whip up a simple sponge with a touch of vinegar to make it light and delicious, then fill with sweetened vanilla cream and a pound of fresh strawberries.

Get the recipe from Delicious on a Dime

Apple and chocolate spelt Swiss roll

Apples and dark chocolate make for an unusual but winning combination in this apple and chocolate spelt Swiss roll a wonderful treat! A scattering of walnuts tops it off perfectly.

Get the recipe from Fab Food 4 All

Blueberry Swiss roll cake

This blueberry Swiss roll cake combines a springy sponge cake rolled up with whipped cream and blueberries, giving the filling a stunning colour. It's a great way to use up blueberries when they're in season and makes a pretty homemade dessert for the holidays.

Get the recipe from Upstate Ramblings

Yule log cake

Yule log cake is a traditional dessert in Belgium, France and Switzerland. It's a rich chocolate sponge, filling with chocolate coffee cream and frosted with a creamy chocolate buttercream. It's perfect for Christmas day dessert!

Get the recipe from Savvy Mama Lifestyle

Mexican jelly roll

This Mexican jelly roll (or niño envuelto) is popular Mexican sweet (pan dulce). The sponge is made with eggs, butter, sugar, flour and vanilla. It's baked, then filled with strawberry marmalade and garnished with coconut shreds.

Get the recipe from Mama Latina Tips

Banana Swiss roll with whipped peanut butter ganache

A slice of Banana Roll Cake With Whipped Peanut Butter Ganache sits on a white plate with a fork on the side. In the background there's a milkshake.

If you love a good banana and peanut combination, you'll love this. And if you think you don't like banana and peanut butter, you'll probably still love this! There are mashed bananas in the gorgeous, brown sugar sponge, which is filled with whipped cream laced with peanut butter chips.

Strawberry shortcake roll-up cake

This strawberry shortcake roll-up cake has it all; tender white sponge, whipped cream, fresh strawberries, and a show-stopping presentation!

Get the recipe from Food, Folks and Fun

Chocolate and peppermint roulade

This chocolate roulade is filled peppermint buttercream, covered with a rich chocolate ganache and scattered with peppermint pieces. It's the perfect desert in the run up to Christmas.

Get the recipe from Food, Folks and Fun

A wooden table has two plates with a slice of chocolate rolled cake with cookie dough. In the background you can see a rectangular plate with the remainder of the chocolate rolled cake.

This chocolate rolled cake is filled with cookie dough buttercream. Doesn't that sound incredible? It's a from-scratch recipe, but you can use vanilla ice cream to make the process even quicker and easier.

Pumpkin blossom roll cake

A pumpkin slice on a olive green deocrative plate on a white wooden table. The table is deocrated with orange and white napkins and green and orange leaves.

This pumpkin cake is so pretty and takes a lot of the tricky elements out of making a Swiss roll. It's filled and covered with a dreamy whipped cream & cream cheese frosting.

Get the recipe from Food, Folks and Fun

Mary Berry's chocolate roulade

A chocolate roulard sits on a wooden chopping board. One slice of the chocolate roulard has been cut off. The surrounding areas is covered in dark chocolate squares.

This deliciously chocolatey and satisfying chocolate roulade is flour-free, which means it has an extremely light texture that's further helped with the whipped eggs. It has a unique, impossibly flavourful, yet feather-light consistency - a difference you'll definitely notice when compared to a traditional sponge Swiss roll. You're going to LOVE it.

Get the recipe from A Mummy Too

Phew, that's a lot of cake and all extremely tempting! Which gets your vote?

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Collage of 4 Swiss rolls. Caption reads: 20 Swiss roll recipes - fruity fillings, rich sponges & stunning garnishes

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Luscious Lime Drizzle Cake

It is so simple to make this lime drizzle cake and it tastes like the best tangy sweets you've ever had...in cake form! Move over lemon drizzle you’ve got some teatime competition.

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Pink Ombré Cake

This pink ombré cake is as delicious as it is pretty. Each slice boasts three layers of light and fluffy pink strawberry sponge, sandwiched and covered with a pale pink vanilla buttercream frosting and decorated with sweet and tart free-dried strawberry pieces.

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Dalgona Coffee Cake

A coffee craze in dessert form. This dalgona coffee cake has a richly-flavoured, springy, light chocolate coffee sponge, a smooth coffee cream filled and a topping made from fluffy, sweet dalgona coffee froth. It's coffee HEAVEN.

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Carrot Cake Tray Bake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This carrot cake tray bake hits all the right notes in every single bite. It boasts a moist, sweet, decadently rich carrot cake sponge and the topping is cool, creamy, sweet cream cheese frosting. For a little extra taste and texture, I add a sprinkle of chopped walnuts. Perfection!

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