I am not sure what went wrong, or where? The batter was lumpy, I just couldn't get the egg whites to incorparate into the banana batter? After unrolling to fill, the cake had shrunk! Now I am not new to baking, but a shrinking cake??!! Anyway, I filled it and it is now sitting in the fridge, time will tell. Also I took the advice of another user and put the caramel into the filling. I couldn't find the ice cream topping so I melted six caramels with 2 TAB. of vanilla creamer, then mixed that with the rest of the filling. It tasted great. The next time I will not whip the egg whites so much and will use a different towel to pre- roll.

Now I give this a four star because my cake stuck to my parchment paper, that I used instead of towel, dispite the fact that I powdered it with powdered sugar. Perhaps it was my own fault that maybe it wasn't cool enough when unrolled. Idunno. Made another roll cake since the first and literally left it sit this time in 2 cloth napkins with a good amount of P/S for a couple of hours. It unrolled fine. But definitely line your pan when baking, it is much worse when a cake sticks to the pan and you have to pry it out carefully. The taste is great. I added caramel dipping sauce to the filling, @ 1 heaping TBSP and avoided using it as topping. Yum and thanks! Will keep making it until I perfect the roll cake thing.

This recipe came out tasting absolutely delicious, but I really didn't understand the rolling the cake in a towel thing. Mine stuck to the towel and became very strangely textured. Maybe I needed more powdered sugar. Next time I will try it with wax paper instead of a towel. I also think that it was PLENTY sweet without the addition of caramel sauce I wish that I hadn't bought a bottle because no one wanted it. I used extra mashed up bananas in the batter because they were so ripe I had to use them up and I am glad I did because it gave the cake a great strong banana flavor. UPDATE: My husband has asked me to make this recipe again about 10 times, before now the only dessert he has asked me to make him more than once is "brownies from the box" I think I have to rate it 5 stars instead of 4 after all!!!

This was really easy to make! And it turned out so good. I made it for a church potluck, and I got a lot of compliments. I didn't have any caramel ice cream topping, so I used butterscotch instead. Also, I omitted the lemon peel.