Jelly Roll Fail

[jethrien]

The first two jelly rolls I made were perfect--lovely and sliceable into perfect pinwheels. So when I decided to branch out, I was confident. Yes, the new cake recipe warned of minor cracking. Yes, my whipped cream filling wasn't as sticky as the previous frostings. The first two had come out lovely without much effort--clearly I have this down.

Pride goeth...

My jelly roll exploded. Explodiated. All over the place. The entire counter (which I'd pridefully not fully cleared, not anticipating serious difficulties) ended up covered in powdered sugar and blackberry jam. My poor jelly roll. It's kind of an amorphous mass, with blackberries and whipped cream leaking out all over the place. There's no way this thing is going to be sliceable. It's lucky to stay on the plate and not slide off to the bottom of the fridge.

Although given what the goop I licked off my upper arm tasted like, it's still going to be quite tasty.

So, blackberry trifle, then?

Comments

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

But what a delicious fail.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

How does a jelly roll explodiate?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

As one tries to make the last crucial turn of an overstuffed jelly roll, the first three inches breaks free inside and the rest tries to unroll. It whuffs down into the pile of whipped cream, squirting a large amount of cream and berries towards the cookbook on one side and one's apron on the other, as well as towards the edges of the roll, some of which break off. The force causes air pressure to blow the powdered sugar impregnated in the dish towel into a mushroom cloud of sugary destruction that rains down on aforementioned baker, pastry, dishtowel, piles of whipped cream, and anything else in the vicinity.

My arms were delicious.

[sparticleman.livejournal.com]

...but it was so good...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It firmed up a lot more than I thought it was going to - when I wrote this, it would have had to be served in bowls with spoons as amorphous mush.

But it would have been really tasty amorphous mush. Chocolate, whipped cream and blackberries - how could you go wrong?