Roulade

Maria proposed Roulade as the third Sweet Punch. First thing I did was to seek Google's help to learn the way it is pronounced. It's pronounced as rooh-laad. I was very skeptical about being able to do the challenge as I had a humongous task of moving during the month end. Every weekend we were crazily going house hunting to return disappointed. Going through lot of stress as we had already given notice to the then house owner, worried that we would end up homeless. Finally we zeroed in on a house and were to move on July 24th, Saturday. On Friday morning, my daughter woke up with fever. I planned to take the day off from work and take her to a doc. While walking on the footpath, I suddenly tripped and got a twisted ankle. I knew I had to bake the cake that night or I will have to skip this challenge, coz once I move to a new place it would take some time to settle down. I was too scared to tell Abbas what I had in mind as I was sure he would blast at me if he comes to know. I quietly set out to whisk the batter. Abbas pitched in to the kitchen to see what's happening and gave a furtive glance saying "I don't know what to tell you. You know how hectic tomorrow is going to be, and you are here with sever pain in your ankle, blender clutched in your palm? This is heights of craziness" and left. I just placed the batter in a cake tin and then in the oven, set the timer and went to bed. I was too exhausted myself anyway. I got up in the morning and whipped cream, smeared it on the cake, rolled it using an aluminium foil and kept it in the refrigerator (As the cake was too cold, there were cracks while rolling). After that, didn't know how the day passed packing stuff and moving. We finally reached our new house at 10 PM. Unpacked a few boxes which held things that we immediately needed for the night. I was crazily looking for the cake to place it in the refrigerator but inspite of all our efforts we couldn't locate it. Ma said that the guys from Packer n Movers must have gulped it on the way. I was so sad that all my efforts went in vain. Then next morning, when we unpacked rest of the carton, we found it. I was elated specially after checking that it was till in edible condition. Refrigerated it for some time and we all had it. Abbas said it was my best so far. Pictures are not that good. I have clicked one among all the carton boxes to give the feel of the situation. Anyway, happy that I made it this time too among all hurdles.