Day Two Hundred Forty-Four: Jelly Roll Up

My youngest daughter turned one-year old on Monday.  For her birthday I made Martha's Hazelnut-Raspberry Jelly Roll.  A jelly roll is basically a thin cake, topped with jelly and cream, and rolled into a tube.

Yes, rolled into a tube.  How do they do that?

Start by baking a very thin cake.  After it's cooked, but before it cools, roll the cake in a clean kitchen towel:

There's a cake in that towel. :promise:

After the cake cools, unroll, spread some jelly and cream, and roll it up (without the towel this time.) Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

This cake looks so fancy.  People think I worked so hard.  (Hah! Fooled those suckers!)  Best part: it was a good cake....although I think it would be hard to screw up a cake rolled in jelly, cream and powdered sugar.