Terrel wrote:

> I made my first-ever jelly roll yesterday. It went so smoothly that I
> was surprised. I turned out the baked cake onto a towel dusted with
> confectioners sugar. I rolled up the cake in the towel and let it cool
> a bit. I unrolled it with no problem. I spread the filling on the cake
> and rolled the cake back up again with no problem. The cake didn't
> break, split or crack.
>
> But after I finished rolling up the cake with the filling inside, I
> realized that I had rolled the cake from the long end instead of the
> short end. Instead of a lovely jelly roll, I had what turned out to be
> a thin cake rolled about once or one-and-a-half times around a big
> glop of filling.
>
> It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a
> jelly roll.
>
> I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it
> from the short end.

Hurry up and eat the evidence so no one will know.

Oh, wait. You just told everybody...

Pastorio