merry xmas

been busy making logcakes for the past few days... baking lessons in the day and baking swiss rolls at nite... continously baking for days... though it's a bit tiring, it was quite fun to do things that are enjoying... and to have a fren who is always there to accompany and help... throughout these few days, we have been baking swiss rolls and improving on every cake that we did... think the last batch was the best bcos of something that we changed... haha... only my dear partner would know wat me referring to... anyway we received good comments from all the customers... and even received impromptu orders... haha... though it was not a lot, we managed to sell our products to our ex-colleagues and gain their recognition...
this is the logcake me did for my ex-office xmas celebrations...


anyway, xmas period is over, but think we still have one more cake to do... hmm..
now we need to plan for our baking for Chinese New Year... need to do it fast in order to get more orders... hehe... hope we can make more for CNY...

it's been hard on my partner during the past week... thank you for everything and hope u had a nice xmas... both of us fell a bit sick during the week... we should take care of our health...

cake making

yesterday spend the whole evening baking, experimenting on chocolate cake and logcake... the first chocolate cake was done quite quickly bcos nothing went wrong, but the ganache used for the coating was not wat me expected... would prefer a more glossy finish to it, but not sure whether it is due to the hardening in the fridge that caused it to lose its gloss, bcos when the coating was applied, it was pretty shiny. perhaps should leave the cake out at room temp again to see wat happens to it. shall try it or come up with a new recipe for the ganache... actually copied a new one from a book liao, shall try it next time...
making logcake was a disaster at the beginning... firstly, the first swiss roll that was made did not turn out properly... so we decided to make another swiss roll... luckily, it turned out well this time... next was the butter cream that we planned to use for the logcake... me made a stupid mistake by adding the butter to the "hot" meringue, causing it to melt instantaneously... haiz... me really silly and stupid... should not make such mistakes again... anyway we decided to beat up some topping cream to make the swiss roll without the cream for the logcake... but it happened that there was excess cream left after making the swiss roll... so decided to make the logcake with the topping cream... so there it is... our first logcake was made....



shall try to think properly and not make stupid mistakes again while baking....

pizza making session

yesterday was a fun day, making pizzas at home for the first time.. not in school... trying to make the crust of the pizzas as thin as possible.... the pizzas turned out to be quite yummy, though not quite appealing, most probably due to the ingredients (bcos only used mushrooms and cheese) and the crust colour was not that brown yet... something needs to be done while baking.. think top heat needs to be increased since the bottom is already on the oven floor... anyway will try again and see whether the problem can be solved.... anyway seems like the one with the thicker crust turns out to be better than the one with the thinner crust in terms of texture and feel...


think next week will most probably be baking cakes... for baby and for sales?? hehe... so happy going to make cakes again... love cakes!!!

need to update this site more often... now the frequency is like once a mth?? tsk tsk..... haha....