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Rullo Pasta

My dad loved this cake made by Hacer, and so she made it twice, when my dad n mom were visiting us. This is such a light dessert, so creamy and delicious, and Hacer says it hardly takes any time, maybe 30-40 minutes to make it.

This cake reminds me of Swiss cake we had in India, it was chocolate roll with white icing or white cake with strawberry jam inside it rolled up. It looked very pretty.
Ingredients:

This recipe is for approx 11 X13 inch baking tray. If you have a 13×13 inch baking tray, then use 4 eggs and and 4 cups flour.

For Cake:
3 eggs,
2 turkish/arabic coffee cup size sugar,
1 turkish/arabic coffee cup size yoghurt,
3 turkish/arabic coffee cup size flour,
1 1/2 tsp baking powder,

For Pudding:
3 cups milk,
3 tbsp flour,
3 tbsp cornstarch,
7 tbsp sugar,
1-2 tbsp butter

1 tub cool-whip, thawed
2 peeled bananas

For garnishing the cake: dessicated coconut, sliced strawberries, chocolate chips etc.

Method:

For the cake, mix eggs and sugar with a hand mixer for 2 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and then mix well, till all the lumps dissolve. Pour this in a 11X13 inch baking tray, lined with a parchment paper. If you have oil spray, then spray the paper with it lightly. Spread the batter with a fork to get an even layer. Bake at 350 deg F till the top is red-gold in color.

When you start the baking, start making the pudding. Dissolve all the ingredients listed under Pudding except butter. Then boil it stirring constantly. When done, it will start to thicken, and the flour-y taste will have gone. Remove from heat, add the butter, and again use a hand mixer and mix for a few minutes.

The cake should be baked in this time. Wait a couple minutes, and roll it tightly with the parchment paper, and cover this roll with a wet towel. Leave it for 15 minutes.

Let the pudding cool for 15 minutes too.

Remove the cake from the parchment paper, and then spread the pudding on the cake, and leave about a cup of pudding outside. Keep 2 peeled bananas length wise about 2 inches away from the longer end. Roll the cake starting from the ends where the bananas are placed. Spread the remaining pudding on the top. Holding it with both your hands, move this quickly to the serving tray.
Now let this rest for about an hour. Then spread the cool-whip all over.

For garnishing, you can use, dessicated coconut, or chopped walnuts, or strawberry/kiwi slices, or as shown in the picture, chocolate chips!

Refrigerate and cut into slices before serving!

Optional: As shown in the above picture, you can add couple tbsp of cocoa powder in the cake batter for chocolate cake.

February 16th, 2007