
How to make the perfect chocolate roulade – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect...
It’s the fudgy crumb, crackly casing and luxuriant cream centre that elevate this French showstopper above the workaday swiss rollI try to embark on these columns with an open mind: to engage the spirit of strict scientific neutrality in pursuit of culinary perfection. Yet, this week, as I rolled roulade after roulade, whipped cream softly spilling on to the counter in front of me, I realised that I was not only striving towards perfection, but attempting to recreate a very specific, decades-old sensory memory. The first mention of chocolate roulade in the British Newspaper Archive comes in...