Skinny mini jelly roll cake for one (well, technically it's for two or three)

70 kcal for 1/3 or 105 for half (not counting filling)

Recipe: click here

 

I decided to go for a honey-chocolate filling

(since I skipped lunch today and had only half a meal for dinner I could afford to eat something 'bad' like chocolate sprinkles and honey paste).

In the end it was about 260 kcal in total (so 130 per half).

 

Cookbook:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real life:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One for me, one for my dad.

I loved it so much I wanted more, my dad hated it so much he wouldn't finish his half.

So there was no reason I couldn't steal my dad's slice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was pretty messy when I made it though (forgot to take pictures of that)

since the inside of the cake roll was still soft and sticky

(I guess it had to be, if it'd been hard, I wouldn't have been able to roll it).

And then I decided to mess around with honey paste

(sticky stuff that somehow ends up EVERYWHERE no matter how careful I am)

and chocolate sprinkles.

I felt like a child messing around in her mama's kitchen for a little while there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My opinion on this:

 

Difficulty:

★ ★ ★

The mix wasn't really hard to make.

I forgot to mix the dry and the wet seperately before putting it together, but it ended up fine.

The only difficulty was getting it out of the pan

(since it was still sticky and even though I'd greased up the pan,

it was still stuck to the bottom, causing it to rip and crack in places),

putting on the filling (trying to smear something sticky onto something else sticky)

and rolling it up (causing rips and cracks in even more places).

But it was all so messy and so much fun that it didn't even matter to me that it wasn't going as smoothly as I'd hoped.

 

Taste:

★ ★ ★

Taste on this one is really dependent on what you put in it.

I tasted a small piece dry and it just tasted like dough.

I personally liked the honey paste and chocolate I put in, but my dad hated it.

I think this would be nice with yoghurt and stawberry jam, my dad probably wouldn't like that either.

I would NEVER make this with whipped cream and/or chocolate paste

(making it way more chocolatty than this version was),

but my dad would probably love it like that.

So it's really hard to tell how good the taste of this is,

since it all depends on what you like in your cake roll and what you end up putting into it.

 

Serving size:

★ ★ ★ ★

It wasn't really filling or anything on its own, but it was definitely more

filling than store bought cake roll.

I could eat an entire cake roll from the supermarket and still be hungry after,

I could never eat an equal amount of this.

After eating about 2/3 of the roll (and still being slightly filled from that burger at dinner)

I'm pretty full, so I'm going to say this is a pretty filling dessert.