Baking Session.. Woohoo~~
My legs are aching!! Haha.. have been standing the whole day today... well almost.. doing what? baking! haha.. YanLi came over to my house late in the afternoon and after our late lunch we started our baking session. one of the things we baked.. cupcakes with lots n lots of chocolate chips!!! Yummy!!!
First we have to beat the sugar and butter.. since we are using the creaming method to make the mixture for the cupcakes...
The first batch of cupcakes in the oven....
The second batch of cupcakes... we decided to make chocolatey ones... so replaced some of the flour with cocoa powder... =)
Next we wanted to try baking log cakes.. since its the Christmas Season.. As you all know... log cakes is just made of swissrolls inside.. so first we need to make swissrolls.. and since they are rolls.. we have to roll them up!!!
This is the swissroll or spongecake mixture.. here we don;t use any butter.. just eggs and sugar to beat till light and fluffy... after that we just add in the sifted flour and cocoa powder..
After that, we adder the mixture into the baking tray that is lined with greasepaper... and oops the first time i actually forgot to grease the paper! so the paper sticks to the cake when we try to remove it after its baked.
Yup, so here's the cake when its done... now we have to turn it over and remove it from the baking tray..
Remove the grease paper first... and then we'll have to trim off the uneven sides using a knife...
We had to join 2 pieces together as the bigger baking tray we bought today doesn't fit my oven!! Arghh... so angry.. so have to make do with the 2 small ones that i originally had...
After trimming... we spread the blueberry jam generously over the top... before rolling it up...
And tada! Thats the swissroll! This is the first one we made.. so its kind of ugly.. and we were quite disappointed.. but then when we started applying the whipping cream over it... wahaha... you'll see..
This is the whipping cream.. so of course you'll have to whipped it first!
Then we spread the cream thickly over the whole swissroll... see.. doesn't it look like a real log cake now!!!!
Then we got some chocolate mixed with piping jelly.. and use a fork to go over it... woohoo! A real log cake now!!!
The very first log cake we made today!!! Then because the swissroll inside we added a little too much flour.. causing it to be too hard.. so we decided to make another 2 more... wahaha...
This is my finished log cake... so pretty right? I applied whipped cream and then shifted some cocoa powder it!!! so nice!!!
This is Yan Li's one... her's is bigger with 2 extra 'branches' at each sides... and then she saw how nice mine turned out to be when i shifted the cocoa powder on it.. so she decided to do the same too! wahaha~
Mine with my Santa on it for decoration!!
Yan Li's finished log cake~~
Then we packed her's into a box that we bought earlier so that she could bring it home... haha.. doesn't it look just like one that you buy from a shop outside?
Angeline
August 2006
